July 2011
Intermediate to advanced
1146 pages
32h 29m
English
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The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7
by Greg Stout, Michelle Lauer, Mike Ryan, Stéphane Corlosquet, Nathaniel Catchpole, Robin Monks, Dan Hakimzadeh, Jacine Luisi, Kasey Qynn Dolin, George Cassie, Albert Albala, Bojhan Somers, Dmitri Gaskin, Stefan Freudenberg, Jake Strawn, Allie Micka, Florian Lorétan, Sam Boyer, Forest Mars, Mike Gifford, Susan Stewart, Peter Wolanin, Roy Scholten, Robert Douglass, Greg Anderson, Brian Travis, Kay VanValkenburgh, Ryan Szrama, Amye Scavarda, Benjamin Melançon, Ed Carlevale, Dani Nordin, Claudina Sarahe, Károly Négyesi
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C H A P T E R 30
Under the Hood: Inside Drupal When It Displays a Page
The moment a web browser requests a page, Drupal begins running a complex series of steps that result in a fully rendered page being returned to the browser. With every page request, Drupal has to do those same calculations, so understanding them is key to making the best development decisions for your modules or sites.
In this chapter you will learn what happens when a Drupal URL is requested, for instance, http://definitivedrupal.org/node/84. Chapter 29 covered how the URL is sorted out by the web server to become index.php?q=node/84. In this chapter, ...
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