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Putting jQuery, AJAX, and JavaScript effects into your Drupal 6 modules and themes
- Learn about JavaScript support in Drupal 6
- Packed with example code ready for you to use
- Harness the popular jQuery library to enhance your Drupal sites
- Make the most of Drupal's built-in JavaScript libraries
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| Chapter Number | Title | Availability | | 1 | Drupal and JavaScript | IN THE BOOK | | 2 | Working with JavaScript in Drupal | IN THE BOOK | | 3 | The Drupal Libraries | IN THE BOOK | | 4 | Drupal Behaviors | IN THE BOOK
| | 5 | Lost in Translations (covers locales, translations) | IN THE BOOK
| | 6 | Javascript Theming | IN THE BOOK
| | 7 | AJAX and Drupal Services | November 2008 | | 8 | More Effects: Autocomplete Forms, Throbbers, And Other Cool Stuff | November 2008 | | 9 | Building a PHP and Javascript Module | November 2008 | | 10 | AHAH! Building dynamic forms | November 2008 |
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Language English
Paperback 250 pages [191mm x 235mm]
Release date
Expected December 2008
ISBN 1847196160
ISBN 13 978-1-847196-16-3
Author(s)
Matt Butcher
Topics and Technologies
Content Management, Open Source, AJAX, Drupal
This book fills the gap between Drupal 6 modules and theming by showing you how to make use of JavaScript and jQuery to join up server-side modules with your front-end designs.
JavaScript: It's not just for calculators and image rollovers.
Drupal 6 is loaded with new features, and not all of them are necessarily implemented in PHP. This unique book, for web designers and developers, will take you through what can be done with JavaScript (and especially with jQuery) in Drupal 6.
With the combination of the powerhouse jQuery library with its own robust set of JavaScript tools, Drupal 6 comes with a pre-packaged killer JavaScript environment. Cross-platform by nature, it provides all of the tools necessary to create powerful AJAX-enabled scripts, gorgeous visual effects, and view-enhancing behaviors. In addition, Drupal developers have ported some of its most powerful PHP tools – like a theming engine and support for localization and language translation – to JavaScript, making it possible to write simple scripts where once only complex PHP code could be used.
This book gives you the keys to the toolbox, showing you how to use Drupal's JavaScript libraries to make your modules and themes more dynamic, interactive and responsive, and add effects to make your Drupal site explode into life!
If you've dipped your toe in the water of theme or module development with Drupal 6, this is the book you want to make the look and behavior of your work something special. With it's project-based approach, this book is carefully constructed to guide you from how JavaScript fits into the overall Drupal architecture through to making you a master of the jQuery library in the world of Drupal themes and modules.
- An introduction to JavaScript in Drupal 6
- The basics of the jQuery library
- Creating JavaScript-enabled themes
- Manipulating a page on the fly with jQuery
- Authoring simple PHPTemplate files designed to maximize scripting potential
- Using jQuery to add effects in Drupal 6
- Working with Drupal 6 behaviors
- Adding AJAX to modules
- Using Drupal's localization and language translation engine in your JavaScript
- Theming on the client-side with Drupal's JavaScript theme engine
- Building better forms
- Working with Drupal 6's JavaScript library
- Writing portable JavaScript tools as Drupal modules
This book focuses on teaching by example. Chapters are packed with example code, providing hands-on examples you can play with and then release to your own Drupal sites. By introducing short projects interspersed with discussion, the pace is rapid yet practical.
This book is for web designers and developers who want to add JavaScript elements to Drupal themes or modules to create more flexible and responsive user interfaces.
You are expected to know about the basic operation of Drupal, and be familiar with the concept of theming and modules in Drupal. No experience of creating themes or modules is required.
You will need to know the basics of client-side web development; this means HTML, CSS, but also have a rudimentary grasp of the syntax of JavaScript. Familiarity with PHP programming will be an advantage, since we will be writing PHPTemplate files and (at the end) creating Drupal modules. However, the PHP is covered thoroughly enough that even the PHP neophyte will not find the text too demanding. The book also covers the jQuery JavaScript library and its use in Drupal, but no knowledge of jQuery is expected - you will learn everything you need in this book.
Matt Butcher
Matt Butcher is the principal consultant for Aleph-Null, Inc. (http://aleph-null.tv), where he specializes in content management systems, Linux system integration, and Open Source technologies. He has been an active participant in Open Source technologies for over a decade. Along with Learning Drupal 6, Matt has also written Mastering OpenLDAP, Managing and Customizing OpenCms 6, and Building Websites with OpenCms, all of which are published by Packt. When not pushing bits, Matt likes to explore Colorado with his wife and three daughters.
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