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Foundation Drupal 7

Name: Foundation Drupal 7
Author: Robert J. Townsend
ISBN: 9781430228080

by Robert J. Townsend

November 2010

Intermediate to advanced

331 pages

7h 14m

English

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Copyright
About the Authors
About the Technical Reviewer
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Drupal as a content management systemWhy Drupal rocksWhat's in this bookWhat's new in Drupal 7What you need to knowLayout conventions
1. An Overview of Drupal
1.1. How Drupal works1.1.1. Database powered1.1.2. Organizing and displaying content1.1.3. People, roles, and permissions1.1.4. Adding functionality through modules1.1.5. Themes1.2. Navigating the administrative interface1.3. Creating a web page1.3.1. How to create a basic page1.3.2. How to create a block
2. Setting Up a Web Host and Installing Drupal
2.1. How to select a web host2.1.1. System requirements2.1.2. Web host requirements2.2. Setting up a web host with cPanel and WHM2.2.1. Create a cPanel account with WHM2.2.2. Adding a database and MySQL user with cPanel2.3. Drupal's file and folder layout2.3.1. Core files2.3.2. The sites directory2.3.3. Single-site and multisite installs2.4. Downloading and installing Drupal2.4.1. Download Drupal to your host2.4.2. Creating a site-specific directory2.4.3. Installing Drupal2.5. Summary
3. Configuring a Basic Drupal Web Site
3.1. An iterative approach3.2. Basic configuration settings3.2.1. Site information3.2.2. Cron3.2.3. Regional settings3.2.4. Date and time3.2.5. Clean URLs3.2.6. Configuring the file system and private downloads3.3. Blocks3.3.1. How blocks work3.3.2. Moving and arranging blocks3.3.3. Configuring a block3.3.3.1. Block-specific settings3.3.3.2. Region settings3.3.3.3. Page-specific visibility settings3.3.3.4. Content type-specific visibility settings3.3.3.5. Role-specific visibility settings3.3.3.6. User-specific visibility settings3.4. Menus and menu links3.4.1. Overview of Drupal's menu system3.4.2. Default menus3.4.2.1. Main menu3.4.2.2. Management3.4.2.3. Navigation3.4.2.4. Secondary menu3.4.2.5. User menu3.4.3. Global menu settings3.4.4. Adding a menu3.4.5. Listing links3.4.6. Creating a menu link3.5. Setting up your front page3.6. Appearance3.6.1. Selecting a theme3.6.2. Global and individual theme settings3.7. Summary
4. Adding Content Types and Fields
4.1. What is a content type?4.1.1. Knowing when to add a content type4.2. Adding a content type4.2.1. Fields and form settings available to a content type4.2.2. Content publishing options4.2.3. Displaying the author and publication date4.2.4. Displaying comments4.2.5. Menu settings4.3. Adding fields to a content type4.3.1. Adding field types4.3.1.1. Text fields and boxes4.3.1.2. Drop-down lists, check boxes, and radio buttons4.3.1.3. Files and images4.3.2. Managing the display of fields in multiple locations4.3.2.1. Default view mode4.3.2.2. RSS view mode4.3.2.3. Search index and search result view modes4.3.3. Adding comment fields and controlling how they display4.4. Designing the taxonomy of your site4.4.1.4.4.1.1. Adding a vocabulary4.4.1.2. Adding terms4.4.1.3. Managing terms4.5. Summary
5. People, Roles, and Permissions
5.1. An overview5.2. How to add people5.3. Customizing account settings5.3.1. Anonymous users and administrator role5.3.2. Registration and cancellation5.3.3. Personalization5.3.4. E-mails5.4. Roles and permissions5.5. IP address blocking5.6. Summary

6. Enabling and Configuring Core Modules
6.1. Enabling a module6.2. Aggregator6.3. Blog6.4. Book6.5. Comments6.6. Contact6.7. Forum6.8. Language translations, including locale and content translation6.8.1. Setup instructions for the locale module6.8.2. Setup instructions for the content translation module6.9. OpenID6.10. Poll6.11. Tracker6.12. Summary
7. Essential Contributed Modules
7.1. Adding and enabling a contributed module7.2. Defining URL path patterns with Pathauto7.2.1. Node, taxonomy term, and user path settings7.2.2. General and punctuation settings7.3. Using views to query and display data7.3.1. The views administration UI7.3.2. Adding a view7.3.2.1. Settings7.3.2.2. Display7.3.2.3. Logic7.3.2.4. Previewing and saving a view7.3.3. Enabling and updating the front-page view7.4. Entering content with WYSIWYG HTML editors7.5. JavaScript menus with DHTML Menu7.6. Creating forms with webform7.6.1. Configuring the webform module7.6.2. Creating a web form7.7. Spam control with Mollom7.8. Site statistics with Google Analytics7.9. Summary
8. Theming a Drupal Website
8.1. Build first, then theme8.2. Using a Drupal theming framework: Fusion8.2.1. Installing Fusion core8.2.2. Installing a Fusion sub-theme8.2.3. Install Skinr8.3. Creating your layout8.3.1. Planning your theme8.3.2. Theme settings8.3.3. Working with the grid layout8.3.3.1. Theme widths8.3.3.2. Changing the sidebars8.3.3.3. Get content in the right places on the page8.3.3.4. Adjust block widths and alignment8.4. Styling your site8.4.1. Styling your site with Skinr8.4.2. Styling your site with CSS8.4.2.1. Using local.css8.4.2.2. CSS styling basics8.4.2.2.1. Tools8.4.2.3. Example: styling the site name8.5. Creating your own custom Drupal theme8.5.1. Copy and edit Fusion's starter subtheme8.5.2. Adding style to your theme8.5.2.1. Writing your own CSS8.5.2.2. Content-specific theming8.6. Advanced topics8.6.1. Doing more with Skinr8.6.2. Using PHP and template files8.6.2.1. Other template files8.6.2.2. Using the template.php file8.7. Summary
9. Designing for a Browser
9.1. The browser as the new canvas9.2. Using a template-driven approach9.3. Working with text9.4. Configuring Photoshop and Illustrator for best results9.4.1. Color settings9.4.2. Creating pixel-perfect lines and shapes9.4.2.1. Photoshop settings9.4.2.2. Illustrator settings9.4.3. Slicing, optimizing, and saving web site images9.4.3.1. Using the Slice and Slice Select tools9.4.3.2. Optimizing web site images9.4.3.3. Saving images9.5. Summary
10. Going Live
10.1. Getting prepared to move a site to production10.2. Understanding the process10.3. Setting up a staging site in cPanel10.3.1. Step-by-step cPanel tutorial10.3.2. Troubleshooting your staging site10.4. Turning on your production site10.4.1. Preparing the test site for production10.4.2. Moving the test site to production10.5. Summary
11. Maintaining and Updating a Drupal Site
11.1. Maintaining a production site11.1.1. Signing up for and checking security alerts11.1.2. Checking the reports section weekly11.1.2.1. Enable the statistics module11.1.2.2. Site health11.2. Understanding the update process11.2.1. Using the Update Manager module11.2.2. How to update a contributed module via Drupal UI11.2.3. How to update a contributed module via SSH11.2.4. Updating Drupal core via SSH11.3. Useful modules11.3.1. How do I back up content?11.3.2. How do I stage content?11.3.3. How do I stage sites?11.4. Summary
12. Translating Business Requirements to Drupal Functionality
12.1. Increase your knowledge of Drupal12.1.1. Study other people's work12.1.2. Create a module reference document12.1.3. Network with Drupal developers12.1.4. Learn Drupal best practices12.2. Useful communication tools12.2.1. Requirements gathering12.2.2. Using wireframes12.2.3. Create an estimated-time spreadsheet12.3. Leverage the Drupal community12.3.1. Navigating Drupal.org12.3.2. Posting Guidelines12.3.3. Finding the perfect functionality12.3.3.1. Searching using the right keywords12.3.3.2. Evaluating a module12.4. Summary
A. Drupal and Search Engine Optimization
A.1. What is SEO?A.2. Important configuration changesA.2.1. Update the .htaccess fileA.2.2. Enable title and alt fields for imagesA.2.3. Revise robots.txtA.3. SEO-friendly modulesA.3.1. SEO ChecklistA.3.2. PathautoA.3.3. Path Redirect and Global RedirectA.3.4. Meta tagsA.3.5. Page TitlesA.3.6. Menu AttributesA.3.7. XML sitemapA.3.8. BoostA.4. Structure your themeA.5. Page OptimizationA.6. How to emphasize content in a WYSIWYG editor
B. Drush, the Command-Line Shell for Drupal
B.1. What is Drush?B.2. Expanding Drush functionality through contributed modulesB.2.1. Backup and MigrateB.2.2. Drush CleanupB.2.3. Drush EMB.2.4. Drush MakeB.3. How to install Drush on cPanelB.4. Popular Drush commands
C. 50+ Contributed Modules to Spice Up Any Site
C.1. Development toolsC.1.1. Chaos tool suiteC.1.2. DevelC.1.3. Drupal For FirebugC.1.4. FeaturesC.1.5. ContextC.1.6. SpacesC.1.7. StrongarmC.2. Site-building toolsC.2.1. Automatic NodetitlesC.2.2. Custom BreadcrumbsC.2.3. Custom SearchC.2.4. FlagC.2.5. Menu attributesC.2.6. Menu blockC.2.7. Nice MenusC.2.8. NodequeueC.2.9. PanelsC.2.10. RulesC.2.11. Site mapC.2.12. String OverridesC.2.13. WorkflowC.3. Modules that add additional field typesC.3.1. Content Construction Kit (CCK)C.3.2. DateC.3.3. EmailC.3.4. Embedded Media FieldC.3.5. Field PermissionsC.3.6. LinkC.3.7. NameC.3.8. PhoneC.4. Site administration toolsC.4.1. Administration menuC.4.2. Advanced helpC.4.3. Content Management FilterC.4.4. FeedbackC.4.5. LoginTobogganC.4.6. TransliterationC.4.7. User ProtectC.5. Theming toolsC.5.1. Content Template (Contemplate)C.5.2. Theme developerC.5.3. ThemeKeyC.5.4. ZenophileC.6. JavaScript, jQuery, and DrupalC.6.1. ColorboxC.6.2. External LinksC.6.3. jQuery UIC.6.4. jQuery pluginsC.6.5. jQuery UpdateC.6.6. SuperfishC.6.7. Quick TabsC.7. Mass e-mailC.8. E-commerce for DrupalC.9. Social networkingC.9.1. Drupal for FacebookC.9.2. Facebook-style Statuses (Microblog)C.9.3. Organic groupsC.9.4. PrivatemsgC.9.5. TwitterC.9.6. User RelationshipsC.9.7. User Points
D. Views Recipes
D.1. Article listingD.2. ArchiveD.3. CalendarD.4. Image slideshowD.5. Image galleryD.6. Promoted block

Overview

Drupal is a content management framework that powers web sites from simple online brochures to more advanced sites including social networking sites, blogs, e-commerce sites, business portals, and more. It is free, open source software that allows anyone to quickly and easily build web sites. Its full range of modules—including user permissions, security mechanisms, JavaScript menus, image uploaders, WYSIWYG editors, and more—helps you easily create the foundation for a powerful web site. With its templating system (and a few tips and tricks), any graphic design file can be used to create a Drupal web site.

Foundation Drupal 7 covers all the topics necessary to quickly build Drupal-powered web sites, explaining in simple terms how Drupal works and providing you with concepts, tips, and code snippets for every step of the development process. From setting up a Drupalready web host and installing Drupal to using the administrative interface and configuring a site from start to finish, there is something here for everyone. In addition to thoroughly discussing all of Drupal's core modules, this book reviews more than 50 contributed modules, including WYSIWYG HTML editors, JavaScript drop-down menus, web forms, and even the powerful Views module. Stephanie Pakrul, creator and maintainer of the Fusion theme, coauthors a chapter on how to lay out and add graphics to a site through Drupal's administrative section. After reading this book, you will walk away with everything you need to know to quickly and successfully build a Drupal-powered web site.

Whether you're an experienced Drupal site builder looking to expand your skills, a web developer or designer interested in learning Drupal, or a weekend hobbyist looking to build your first site, Foundation Drupal 7 will give you the knowledge and inspiration you need to bring your ideas to life.

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