Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6 Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Drupal
• Drupal—An Overview
• How Drupal Came to Be
• What Drupal Has to Offer
• Uses of Drupal
• Building a Drupal Site
• Planning Your Site
• Analyzing the Proposed Solution
• Feasibility
• Phone a Friend
• Critical versus Desirable Criteria
• The Drupal Community
• Documentation
• Download
• Support
• Forum
• Contribute
• Contact
• The Drupal License
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Setting Up The DevelopmentEnvironment
• The Drupal Environment
• Obtaining and Installing PHP, Apache, and MySQL
• Obtaining and Installing Drupal
• Troubleshooting Common Problems
• Drupal's Post-Installation Status
• Administrator's Overview
• Creating a Basic Drupal Page
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Basic Functionality
• Adding Modules
• Third-Party Modules
• Downloading Modules
• Installing Modules
• Configuring Modules
• Forum
• Comments
• Search
• Working with Blocks
• Adding Blocks
• Configuring Blocks
• Menus, Primary and Secondary Links
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Site Configuration
• Before We Start
• Clean URLs
• Error Reporting
• File System and File Uploads
• Logging and Reports
• Site Information
• Site Maintenance
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Access Control
• Planning an Access Policy
• Roles
• Permissions
• Users
• Administering Users
• User Settings
• Access Rules
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Basic Content
• Content Overview
• Content Types
• Working with Content
• Working with Content Types
• Creating Content
• Administering Content
• Content-Related Modules
• Aggregator
• Book
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Advanced Content
• Taxonomy
• What and Why?
• Implementing Controlled Taxonomies in Drupal
• Introduction to Vocabularies
• Dealing with Terms
• Posting Content with Categories Enabled
• Hierarchies
• Content Structure
• Implementing Thesuari in Drupal (Tags)
• Content Construction Kit (CCK)
• Installing CCK
• Working with CCK
• Adding Fields
• Adding Groups
• Displaying Fields
• Export & Import
• Adding Contributed Fields
• HTML, PHP, and Content Posting
• Input Formats and Filters
• HTML
• Creating a Feature-Rich Page
• Posting a Feature-Rich Page
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Drupal's Interface
• Planning a Web-Based Interface
• Visual Design
• Language
• Images
• CSS
• Themes
• Theme Anatomy
• Choosing a Base Theme
• Configuring Themes
• Customizing Themes
• Images
• Colors
• Page Modifications
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Advanced Features and Modifications
• OpenID
• Actions and Triggers
• Language Support
• Localization
• Content Translation
• Performance
• Caching
• Throttling
• Dynamic JavaScript Features
• jQuery
• jQuery Basics
• jQuery in Action
• Scrolling News Ticker
• Obtaining the Ticker
• Adding the Content
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Managing Your Website
• Backups
• phpMyAdmin
• The mysqldump Utility
• Cron and Scheduled Tasks
• The Crontab
• Windows Scheduled Tasks
• Website Activities
• Path and Pathauto
• Uninstalling Modules
• Maintaining Users
• Search Engine Optimization and Website Promotion
• Upgrades
• Upgrading Drupal
• Upgrading Modules
• Summary

• Appendix A: Deployment
• Getting Ready to Deploy
• Make Sure the Host is Ready
• Get the Files Ready
• Get the Database Ready
• Transfer the Files
• Setting Up the Site
• Set Up the Files
• Set Up the Database
• Configure the Site
• Access Problem?
• Testing
• Summary

• Index