Drupal 7 Business Solutions

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Planning our Site and Setting up Drupal
• Artisan Bakers Collective
• Plans for the Artisan Bakers Collective website
• Selecting a foundation for the Artisan Bakers Collective site
• Simple static web pages
• Key advantages
• Key disadvantages
• Fully-customized site with PHP and MySQL
• Key advantages
• Key disadvantages
• Drupal content management system
• Benefits of building with Drupal
• Disadvantages of Drupal
• Deciding on Drupal
• Getting started with Drupal
• Artisan Bakers Collective on the web
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Creating the Artisan Bakers Collective Website
• The Core Drupal 7 look and feel
• Checking the site's status report
• Cron
• Clean URLs
• Drupal core content—basic pages and articles
• Adding a Basic page
• Editing a page
• Security considerations
• Street presence, setting up the home page
• Blog style home pages
• Adding images to your content
• URL path settings
• Using path aliases
• Creating multiple aliases for a page
• Automatically creating page aliases
• Creating a traditional home page
• Deleting a page
• Getting around—setting up navigation
• Building menus
• Types of menus
• Adding a page to a menu
• Setting the order of menu items
• Enabling core modules and installing contributed modules
• Installing contributed modules
• Installing the Menu Block module
• Using the Menu Block module
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Adding Products and Services
• Building a custom content type
• Introduction to content types
• Goal
• Designing the menu item
• Goal
• Steps
• Creating the content type
• Goal
• Steps
• Adding a price to the menu item
• Goal
• Steps
• Adding ingredients, dietary concerns and meals fields
• Goal
• Steps
• Adding seasonal information to the menu item
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Adding an image
• Goal
• Steps
• Alternative solutions
• Controlling access to the content type
• Goal
• Steps
• Using taxonomy to categorize content
• Create a vocabulary for Type of Baked Good
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Adding terms to the vocabulary
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Adding the Term reference field
• Goal
• Steps
• Adding content with the content type
• Creating a new Breads and Pastries item
• Goal
• Steps
• Customizing the display of the content type nodes
• Modifying the order of fields and the display of the field labels
• Goal
• Steps
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Interacting with Customers and Visitors
• Working with users
• Allowing user registration
• Goal
• Steps
• Extending the user signup form
• Create a VIP role
• Goal
• Steps
• Assign users to the VIP role
• Goal
• Steps
• Working with comments
• Enable comments for a content type and node
• Goal
• Adding new comments
• Goal
• Steps
• Manage comments
• Goal
• Steps
• Notification of new user comments on site
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps for creating the e-mail action
• Steps for creating the new comments trigger
• Set up user ratings for content
• Add Fivestar content ratings to a node
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Adding a rate this node block
• Goal
• Steps
• Change the display of the ratings
• Goal
• Steps
• Working with polls
• Create a poll
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Adding the poll to the home page
• Goal
• Steps
• Submitting a poll
• Goal
• Steps
• Viewing poll results
• Goal
• Steps
• Adding user surveys
• Creating a user survey
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Protecting the survey with Captchas
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Answering a survey
• Goal
• Steps
• Viewing survey results
• Goal
• Submissions view
• Analysis view
• Table view
• Download view
• Clear
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Creating a Company Blog
• Creating blogs
• Setting up the blog system
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Adding a new blog post
• Goal
• Steps
• Adding moderation for blog posts
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Creating the moderator role
• Setting up moderation for the blog posts
• Automatically moderating content based on keywords
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Enabling customers to read your blogs
• Displaying a list of available blogs
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Creating a blog menu
• Creating a blog block
• Creating an RSS feed for newsreaders
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Adding subscription buttons
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Including information from other blogs
• Allowing your site to read content
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Viewing feeds
• Goal
• Steps
• Automatically updating your feeds with cron jobs
• Goal
• Steps
• Additional ways of setting up cron
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Newsletters and Calendars
• Creating newsletters
• Creating a newsletter category
• Goal
• Additional modules needed:
• Steps
• Viewing your newsletter categories
• Adding newsletters
• Simplenews module settings
• General and newsletter configuration
• Subscription and Send mail configuration
• Creating a new issue of the newsletter
• Goal
• Steps
• Allowing users to sign up for the newsletter
• Goal
• Steps
• Managing sign ups
• Goal
• Steps
• Importing and exporting subscriptions
• Goal
• Steps
• Adding a calendar
• Tweaking our date and time settings
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Adding an event content type and custom date/time field
• Goal
• Steps
• Adding events to the site
• Goal
• Steps
• Displaying events on a calendar
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Sharing and Consuming with YouTube, Flickr, Google Maps, and Twitter
• Integrating your site with other web content
• Online baking class
• Embedding a YouTube video with a filter
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Creating a YouTube playlist and display a random video
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Flickr integration: Another alternative for images and slideshows
• Embedding media from Flickr
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Using the Flickr module to insert photos using a filter
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Flickr module blocks
• Posting your site's content to Twitter
• Twitter when you post
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Posting to Twitter
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Freebies and Downloads
• Adding downloads and PDFs to the website
• Controlling how files are downloaded
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Allowing files to be uploaded to the website
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Configuring files for secure private download
• Sending the correct file types to a user
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Forcing a file to be downloaded
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Configuring Printer-friendly pages in Drupal
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Automatically generating PDF files for a page
• Goal
• Steps
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Online Orders and Payments
• The Drupal Commerce module
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Download and install Commerce
• Setting up your Store with Commerce
• Adding a content type in Drupal to display our Commerce product types
• Adding Products using Commerce
• Checking on orders as the site administrator
• Commerce Store Configuration
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Image Galleries and Slideshows
• Using Views to build image galleries
• Installing and Configuring the Views module
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Add some photos
• Configuring Imagecache
• Configuring Image Galleries with Views
• Setting up slideshows with Lightbox and Views
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• General settings
• Slideshow settings
• HTML content settings
• Automatic image handling settings
• Adding a Lightbox slideshow to our Photo gallery
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Maintaining and Optimizing your Drupal Site
• Website backups
• Manually backing up a site
• Goal
• Steps
• Setting up automatic MySQL backups
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Restoring a site from a backup
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Optimizing your Drupal site and its database
• Optimizing the database tables
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Using caching to improve performance
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Creating content workflows and revisions
• Creating content revisions
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Comparing content revisions
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Upgrading to new versions of Drupal
• Checking for new updates to Drupal and modules
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Upgrading Drupal contributed modules
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Upgrading to a new major or minor release of Drupal core
• Goal
• Additional modules needed
• Steps
• Summary

• Index