Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites 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 Demo Website
• The Drupal Community
• Support
• Handbooks
• Forum
• Downloads
• Contribute
• Contact and Community
• The Drupal License
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Setting Up the Development Environment
• The Drupal Environment
• Obtaining and Installing PHP, Apache, and MySQL
• Obtaining and Installing Drupal
• Upgrading Drupal
• Troubleshooting Common Problems
• A Short Tour of Drupal
• A Couple of Important Settings
• Creating an Administrative User
• Using the Administrative Panel
• A Sample Drupal Page
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Basics I: Site Configuration
• Before We Start
• General Settings
• Error Handling
• Cache and File System Settings
• RSS Feed Settings
• Date Settings
• Site Maintenance
• String Handling
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Basics II: Adding Functionality
• Adding Modules
• Third-Party Modules
• Downloading Modules
• Installing Modules
• Configuring Modules
• Forum
• Locale
• Comments
• Content Types
• Search
• Upload
• Menus and Primary Links
• Using Modules
• Working with Blocks
• Adding Blocks
• Configuring Blocks
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Users, Roles, and Permissions
• Planning an Access Policy
• Roles
• Permissions
• Setting Permissions with Taxonomy Access Control
• Users
• Administering Users
• Configuring Users
• Access Rules
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Basic Content
• Content Types
• Working with Content
• Content Options
• Administering Content
• Content-Related Modules
• Aggregator
• Archive
• Similar Entries
• Taxonomy Block
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Advanced Content
• HTML, PHP, and Content Posting
• Input Formats and Filters
• HTML
• Creating a Feature-Rich Page
• Posting a Feature-Rich Page
• Categorization
• What and Why?
• Implementing Taxonomies in Drupal
• Introduction to Vocabularies
• Dealing with Descriptors
• Posting Content with Categories Enabled
• Hierarchies
• Content Structure
• Summary

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

• Chapter 9: Advanced Features and Modifications
• Flexinode
• Downloading and Installing Flexinode
• Creating a Custom Content Type
• Adding Structure
• AdSense
• Installing and Configuring AdSense
• Adding Google Ads to Your Pages
• Adding Google Ads to Your Content
• Advanced Site Modifications
• Scrolling News Ticker
• Obtaining the Ticker
• Creating the Content
• Dynamic Content Page
• Incorporating the Application into the Theme
• Building the Content Page
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Running Your Website
• Backups
• phpMyAdmin
• The mysqldump Utility
• Cron and Scheduled Tasks
• The Crontab
• Windows Scheduled Tasks
• Poormanscron
• Throttling
• Patching
• Website Activities
• Search Engine Optimization
• Maintaining Users
• 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