Pro Drupal Development

4., corr. Printing
ISBN: 978-1-4302-0989-8
Verlag: APRESS

Buch, Englisch, 704 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 235 mm

Drupal is the premier open source content management system available. It is used for high profile sites such as TheOnion.com and has been deployed by organizations such as NASA. Utilizing Drupal, you can create your own personal blog, a community driven site like Slashdot, or any other content oriented web site you can imagine. Building upon the success of the first edition, this second edition is updated completely to cover the newest version of Drupal, version 6.
Pro Drupal Development is a book geared to professionals that need to deploy and customize Drupal. This book delves deep into the internals of the Drupal system and teaches the reader everything they will need to know to deploy a highly customized and optimized Drupal installation. Every web developer looking to deploy web sites quickly to their clients while still being able to harness the power of an excellent content management system needs this book.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

VanDyk, John K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

How Drupal Works.- Writing a Module.- Triggers.- The Menu System.- Working With Databases.- Working With Users.- Working with Nodes.- The Theme System.- Working with Blocks.- The Form API.- The Filter System.- Searching/Indexing Content.- Working with Files.- Working with Taxonomy.- Caching.- Sessions.- Using jQuery.- Localization.- XML-RPC.- Writing Secure Code.- Development Best Practices.- Optimizing Drupal.- Installation Profiles.- Appendix A. Database Table Reference.- Appendix B. Resources.

Über Autor(innen)

Dries Buytaert, the founder and active core developer contributed the foreword to this book.

John VanDyk has been a Drupal developer since 2004. In 2005 he organized the first Drupal conference in Antwerp, Belgium with Drupal founder Dries Buytaert. He has contributed several modules to Drupal, including the actions, workflow, publish, subscribe and pubcookie modules, and has been instrumental in the design of Drupal's Content Construction Kit. John's day job is as an entomology professor and systems analyst at Iowa State University, where he teaches undergraduate courses about insects. In his spare time, when not hacking on Drupal, John enjoys squash hunting and raising children.