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The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 is the most comprehensive book for getting sites done using the powerful and extensible Drupal content management system. Written by a panel of expert authors, the book covers every aspect of Drupal, from planning a successful project all the way up to making a living from designing Drupal sites and to contributing to the Drupal community yourself. With this book you will: Follow practical approaches to solving many online communication needs with Drupal with real examples. Learn how to keep learning about Drupal: administration, development, theming, design, and architecture. Go beyond the code to engage with the Drupal community as a contributing member and to do Drupal sustainably as a business. The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 was written by thefollowing team of expert Drupal authors: Benjamin Melançon, Jacine Luisi, Karoly Negyesi, Greg Anderson, Bojhan Somers, Stephane Corlosquet, Stefan Freudenberg, Michelle Lauer, Ed Carlevale, Florian Loretan, Dani Nordin, Ryan Szrama, Susan Stewart, Jake Strawn, Brian Travis, Dan Hakimzadeh, Amye Scavarda, Albert Albala, Allie Micka, Robert Douglass, Robin Monks, Roy Scholten, Peter Wolanin, Kay VanValkenburgh, Greg Stout, Kasey Qynn Dolin, Mike Gifford, Claudina Sarahe, Sam Boyer, and Forest Mars, with contributions from George Cassie, Mike Ryan, Nathaniel Catchpole, and Dmitri Gaskin. For more information, check out the Drupaleasy podcast #63, in which author Benjamin Melançon discusses The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 in great detail: What you’ll learn Launch a community-ready site in fifteen minutes. Talk to stakeholders and architect a site’s structure and functionality around the goals it must achieve to successfully launch major enterprise sites. Find, evaluate, and configure modules to extend Drupal’s functionality. Theme inspired designs into functional, future-proof templates. Build modules when you need to extend what Drupal can do beyond the thousands of solutions already coded by others. Work with Drupal sustainably as a professional and as a participant in the Drupal community. Who this book is for Anyone who has heard of Drupal and has a personal or professional reason to learn more: from Drupal administrators, themers, and developers to moonlighters and intense hobbyists. People considering a solo or collaborative career making websites will find this book their complete stop for Drupal. Contributors Benjamin Melancon, Jacine Luisi, Karoly Negyesi, Bojhan Somers, Stephane Corlosquet, Stefan Freudenberg, Ryan Szrama, Dan Hakimzadeh, Amye Scavarda, Allie Micka, Roy Scholten, Kasey Dolin, Sam Boyer Table of Contents 1. Building a Drupal 7 Site 2. Essential Tools: Drush and Git 3. Building Dynamic Pages Using Views 4. There's a Module for That 5. Creating Community Web Sites with Organic Groups 6. Security in Drupal 7. Updating Drupal 8. Extending Your Site 9. Drupal Community: Getting Help and Getting Involved 10. Planning and Managing a Drupal Project 11. Documenting for End Users and the Production Team 12. Development Environment 13. Putting a Site Online and Deploying New Features 14. Developing from a Human Mindset 15. Theming 16. Advanced Theming 17. jQuery 18. Introduction to Module Development 19. Using Drupal's APIs in a Module 20. Refining Your Module 21. Porting Modules to Drupal 7 22. Writing Project-Specific Code 23. Introduction to Functional Testing with Simpletest 24. Writing a Major Module 25. Drupal Commerce 26. Drush 27. Scaling Drupal 28. Spice Your Content Up with Tasty Semantics 29. The Menu System and the Path Into Drupal 30. Under the Hood: Inside Drupal When It Displays a Page 31. Search and Apache Solr Integration 32. User Experience 33. Completing a Site: The Other 90% 34. Drupal Distributions and Installation Profiles 35. Drupal's Story: A Chain of Many Unexpected Events 36. Now You're in Business: Making a Living with Drupal 37. Maintaining a Project 38. Contributing to the Community 39. Appendix A: Updating a Drupal Site from 6 to 7 40. Appendix B: Profiling Drupal and Optimizing Performance 41. Appendix C: Page Rendering and Altering 42. Appendix D: Visual Design in Drupal 43. Appendix E: Accessibility 44. Appendix F: Windows Development Environment 45. Appendix G: Installing Drupal on Ubuntu 46. Appendix H: Mac OS X Installation 47. Appendix I: Setting Up a Drupal Environment with the Acquia Dev Desktop