Book description
Using Drupal, web professionals can create full-featured websites with just a few clicks. Drupal’s core is compact and well documented, but much of Drupal’s immense power lies elsewhere: in external modules that, until now, have not been well documented. Now, however, there’s Drupal’s Building Blocks, an authoritative tutorial, reference, and cookbook for Drupal’s most valuable modules.
The authors are Drupal insiders who’ve spent years creating and supporting these modules–Earl Miles, developer of the Views module, and Lynette Miles, Drupal documentation team member. They’ve brought together indispensable, up-to-date information you won’t find anywhere else, as well as extensive sample “recipe” code designed for easy adaptation and reuse. Learn how to
Use Content Construction Kit (CCK) to customize your data around your needs
Improve site flexibility with Drupal’s node system
Add optional field types, including PHP-based fields
Use modules with themes to display data more attractively and legibly
Build powerful Views query displays
Integrate with SQL databases
Customize Views with relationships, arguments, and filters
Optimize query performance
Add styling through the Panel UI or custom-code-based designs
Maintain full control over sites as you deploy into production
This book will help you create more powerful, flexible, usable, and manageable websites—whether you’re a web developer, designer, administrator, architect, or consultant.
About the Website
The accompanying website contains all examples, code, and themes presented in this book.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- I. Content Construction Kit
- 1. Introducing CCK and Nodes
- 2. Field Concepts
- 3. Deeper into Fields
- 4. Themes and CCK
- 5. CCK API
- II. Views
- 6. Relational Databases
- 7. Creating Views
- 8. Arguments, Exposed Filters, and Relationships
- 9. Theming Views
- 10. Query Optimization
- 11. Views API
- III. Panels
- 12. Introducing Panels
- 13. Creating Panels
- 14. Context, Relationships, and Arguments in Panels
- 15. Panels Theming
- 16. Site Deployment
- IV. Appendices
- A. Other Useful Modules
- B. Reporting Issues
- C. Views API Handlers and Plugins
- Index
Product information
- Title: Drupal’s Building Blocks: Quickly Building Web Sites with CCK, Views, and Panels
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2010
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 9780321620354
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