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- A hands-on, example-driven guide to programming Drupal websites
- Discover a number of new features for Drupal 7 through practical and interesting examples while building a fully functional recipe sharing website
- Learn about web content management, multi-media integration, and e-commerce in Drupal 7
Book Details
Language : EnglishPaperback : 366 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : May 2012
ISBN : 1849516804
ISBN 13 : 9781849516808
Author(s) : Kurt Madel
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Beginner's Guides, Drupal, Open Source, Web Development
Table of Contents
PrefaceChapter 1: Getting Set up
Chapter 2: Custom Content Types and an Introduction to Module Development
Chapter 3: HTML5 Integration for Drupal 7 and More Module Development
Chapter 4: Introduction to Drupal 7 Theme Development
Chapter 5: Enhancing the Content Author's User Experience
Chapter 6: Adding Media to our Site
Chapter 7: How Does it Taste – Getting Feedback
Chapter 8: Recipe Lists and More with Views
Chapter 9: Rotating Banners and Project Promotion
Chapter 10: Test Your Code with SimpleTest
Chapter 11: Introduction to the Features Module and Configuration Management
Pop quiz Answers
Index
- Chapter 1: Getting Set up
- Installing an Apache, MySQL, and PHP stack
- Mac OS X AMP stack
- Time for action – downloading the latest version of MAMP
- Windows AMP stack
- Time for action – downloading the latest version of XAMPP
- PHP configuration
- Time for action – modifying php.ini settings
- MySQL configuration
- Time for action – modifying the MySQL my.cnf settings
- Time for action – creating an empty MySQL database
- Installing Git
- Time for action – installing Git for Mac OS X
- Time for action – installing Git for Windows
- Installing Drush
- Time for action – installing Drush for Mac OS X
- Time for action – installing Drush for Windows
- Installing Drupal 7
- Time for action – installing Drupal 7
- Installing the Aptana Studio IDE
- Time for action – installing the Aptana IDE
- Time for action – creating a new Aptana Studio PHP project
- Drupalize Aptana Studio
- Time for action – setting up the Drupal content type associations
- Time for action – installing the Drupal-specific Aptana formatter profile
- Drupal.org from a developer's perspective
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Custom Content Types and an Introduction to Module Development
- Creating custom Recipe content type
- Time for action – creating a custom Recipe content type
- Developing a custom module
- Time for action – developing a custom module
- Quick introduction to Views
- Time for action – installing the Views module
- Time for action – creating a recipe block listing with Views
- Introducing the Devel module
- Time for action – installing the Devel Generate content module
- Time for action – generating content with the devel_generate module
- Summary
- Chapter 3: HTML5 Integration for Drupal 7 and More Module Development
- First things first—changing our DOCTYPE
- Time for action – installing the HTML5 Tools module
- HTML5, RDFa, and Microdata
- Time for action – installing the Microdata module
- Time for action – configuring Microdata for our Recipe content type
- Drupal development and the Drupal community
- Time for action – creating issues in Contrib modules' issue queues
- Time for action – adding Microdata mappings for Recipe number_integer fields
- NutritionInformation module
- Time for action – developing a custom module for a compound NutritionInformation field
- Time for action – updating the Recipe content type to use the NutritionInformation field
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Introduction to Drupal 7 Theme Development
- Creating a sub-theme
- Time for action – installing a base theme
- Time for action – creating a sub-theme and setting it as our default theme
- Time for action – creating a sub-theme and setting as default theme with Drush
- Time for action – configuring our Omega-based sub-theme
- Manage the display for a content type
- Time for action – using the Manage Display page to update the display of our custom Recipe content type
- Drupal 7 Render Arrays
- Time for action – implementing hook_preprocess_node
- An introduction to the Drupal 7 field group module
- Time for action – creating the wrapper with display suite
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Enhancing the Content Author's User Experience
- Developing a custom block for adding content
- Time for action – developing a custom block for adding recipes
- Introduction to the WYSIWYG module
- Time for action – installing and configuring the Wysiwyg module
- A new recipe
- Time for action – deleting all Devel-generated recipe content
- Time for action – adding my Cannellini Cumin Chicken Chili recipe
- Developing a custom contenteditable module
- Time for action – developing an HTML5 contenteditable module
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Adding Media to our Site
- Introduction to the Media module
- Working with dev versions of modules
- Time for action – using Drush to install a dev version of the Media module
- Enhancing the Recipe content type with a Media field
- Time for action – adding a Media field to our Recipe content type
- A new Recipe for our site
- Custom image styles and inline Media for WYSIWYG
- Creating a custom image style
- Time for action – adding a custom image style through the image styles administrative page
- Time for action – creating a programmatic custom image style
- Time for action – configuring Media-based images to use our custom small image style for our Recipe content type
- Inline Media with WYSIWYG
- Time for action – configuring WYSIWYG inline Media for the basic page content type
- Integrating the Colorbox and Media modules
- Time for action – installing the Colorbox module
- Introduction to the Colorbox File module and Drupal sandboxing
- Drupal developer community: Drupal sandbox
- Revisit the sandbox Colorbox File module
- Time for action – checking out the Colobrbox File sandbox project with Git, and testing it with the latest Media module
- Drupal issue queues and enhancing the Colorbox File module
- Time for action – applying and testing the patch for the Colorbox File module
- Summary
- Chapter 7: How Does it Taste – Getting Feedback
- Introduction to the Drupal contact form
- Time for action – enabling and configuring the core contact form
- Adding descriptive help text to our contact form
- Using custom code to add help text to the contact form
- Time for action – adding help text to our site contact form
- Adding contact help text with no code
- Time for action – creating a contact form with help text, with the Webform module
- A more in-depth look at the Webform module
- Time for action – using hook_form_FORM_ID_alter to modify our Webform-based contact form
- Time for action – using hook_form_BASE_FORM_ID_alter to make our Webform emailfield code more generic
- Time for another recipe
- Colorbox File enhancements
- Time for action – enhancing the Colorbox File module with field-based captions
- Rating recipes with Fivestar
- Time for action – installing and configuring the Fivestar module
- Time for action – creating a custom Fivestar widget
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Recipe Lists and More with Views
- Views revisited – advanced configuration
- Random top rated recipe block
- Time for action – building a random top rated recipe block with views
- Taxonomy-based View with tabs
- Time for action – creating a cuisine vocabulary to organize recipes
- Time for action – creating a Recipes by cuisine type Views block
- Time for action – installing and using the Views Field View module for our Recipe by Cuisine Type View
- Tabbed Views display
- Time for action – developing a Views style plugin for Semantic tabs
- Time for another Recipe
- Promoting the Colorbox File module as a full project
- Introduction to the Coder module
- Time for action – installing and using the Coder module
- Commit changes to Colorbox File sandbox
- Time for action – committing Colorbox File module changes to Drupal Git Repository
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Rotating Banners and Project Promotion
- Rotating banner with Views Slideshow
- Time for action – installing the Views Slideshow module
- Custom Drush commands
- Time for action – creating a custom Drush command to install the jQuery Cycle plugin
- Creating a rotating banner with Views Slideshow
- Time for action – creating a banner using the Views Slideshow module
- Enhance the appearance of our rotating banner with a pager and CSS
- Time for action – updating the front banner view to include a slideshow pager
- Time for another recipe
- Promoting a sandbox project to a full project
- Time for action – implementing hook_uninstall for the Colorbox File module
- Time for action – uninstalling and renaming the Colorbox File module
- Time for action – promoting the Media Colorbox module to be a full project on Drupal.org
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Test Your Code with SimpleTest
- What is SimpleTest?
- SimpleTest in Drupal Core
- SimpleTest web interface
- Test files structure for modules
- The SimpleTest class
- Unit Testing with the Drupal SimpleTest module
- Functional or web testing with Drupal SimpleTest
- Time for another recipe
- Writing our own SimpleTests
- Time for action – creating a unit test case for the D7Dev duration formatter
- Time for action – creating a web test case for the D7Dev duration formatter
- Summary
- Chapter 11: Introduction to the Features Module and Configuration Management
- Introduction to the Features module
- Using Features to manage configuration
- Drupal components that can be managed with Features
- Time for action – installing the Features module
- Adding a new Feature
- Time for action – creating a Recipe content type feature
- Managing updates to Feature components
- Time for action – updating our Recipe content type feature
- Features for sharing Drupal components
- Summary
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- 2 submitted: last submission 28 Mar 2013Errata type: Code| Page number: 48 | Errata date: 20-3-2013
Missing step: you must add the gcd($a, $b) function to the module file. It's in the example code for Chapter 2 but not in the book so when you follow the steps you get a fatal error when Drupal calls the d7dev_field_formatter_info() function.
Errata type: Others | Page number: 52 | Errata date: 11-3-2013
The "cookTime" and "prepTime" displayed on the page are "1 and 1/2 hours" and "1/4 hours", respectively. The cookTime and prepTime values entered from page 44 were 30 minutes and 10 minutes, respectively, meaning that the values displayed should actually be "1/2 hours" (cookTime) and "1/6 hours" (prepTime).
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