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Pro Drupal Development

:	John VanDyk
:	Pro Drupal Development
:	Apress
:	9781430209904
:	2
:	CHF 40.90
:

:	Allgemeines, Lexika
:	English

:	704
:	Wasserzeichen/DRM
:	PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
:	PDF

Widely praised for its in-depth coverage of Drupal internals, bestsellingPro Drupal Development has been updated for Drupal 6 in this edition, and provides are even more tricks of the trade to help you further yourself as a professional Drupal developer.

Assuming you already know how to install and bring a standard installation online,John K. VanDyk gives you everything else you need to customize your Drupal installation however you see fit.Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition delves deep into Drupal internals, showing you how to take full advantage of its powerful architecture.

John K. VanDyk has been a Drupal developer since 2004. In 2005, he organized the first Drupal conference in Antwerp, Belgium, with Drupal founder Dries Buytaert. John 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.

	Contents at a Glance	5
	Contents	7
	Foreword	25
	About the Author	26
	About the Technical Reviewer	27
	Acknowledgments	28
	Introduction	29
	How Drupal Works	30
	What Is Drupal?	30
	Technology Stack	30
	Core	31
	Administrative Interface	32
	Modules	32
	Hooks	33
	Themes	34
	Nodes	34
	Blocks	35
	File Layout	35
	Serving a Request	37
	Summary	40
	Writing a Module	41
	Creating the Files	41
	Implementing a Hook	43
	Adding Module- Specific Settings	44
	Adding the Data Entry Form	47
	Defining Your Own Administration Section	55
	Presenting a Settings Form to the User	57
	Validating User- Submitted Settings	59
	Storing Settings	60
	Further Steps	62
	Summary	62
	Hooks, Actions, and Triggers	63
	Understanding Events and Triggers	63
	Understanding Actions	65
	Using the Context in Actions	75
	Examining the Context	79
	How Actions Are Stored	80
	Calling an Action Directly with actions_ do()	81
	Defining Your Own Triggers with hook_ hook_ info()	82
	Adding Triggers to Existing Hooks	84
	Summary	86
	The Menu System	87
	Callback Mapping	87
	Menu Nesting	97
	Access Control	98
	Title Localization and Customization	99
	Wildcards in Menu Items	103
	Altering Menu Items from Other Modules	108
	Altering Menu Links from Other Modules	110
	Kinds of Menu Items	110
	Common Tasks	111
	Using menu. module	115
	Common Mistakes	115
	Summary	116
	Working with Databases	117
	Defining Database Parameters	117
	Understanding the Database Abstraction Layer	117
	Connecting to the Database	119
	Performing Simple Queries	120
	Retrieving Query Results	122
	The Schema API	123
	Inserts and Updates with drupal_ write_ record()	134
	Exposing Queries to Other Modules with hook_ db_ rewrite_ sql()	136
	Connecting to Multiple Databases Within Drupal	139
	Using a Temporary Table	140
	Writing Your Own Database Driver	140
	Summary	141
	Working with Users	143
	The $ user Object	143
	Introduction to hook_ user()	146
	The User Registration Process	149
	The Login Process	152
	External Login	157
	Summary	164
	Working with Nodes	165
	So What Exactly Is a Node?	165
	Not Everything Is a Node	168
	Creating a Node Module	168
	How Nodes Are Stored	185
	Creating a Node Type with CCK	186
	Restricting Access to Nodes	187
	Summary	191
	The Theme System	192
	Theme System Components	192
	Installing a Theme	195
	Building a PHPTemplate Theme	196
	Understanding Template Files	203
	Advanced Drupal Theming	221
	Summary	228
	Working with Blocks	229
	What Is a Block?	229
	Block Configuration Options	230
	Block Placement	232
	Defining a Block	232
	Building a Block	236
	Enabling a Block When a Module Is Installed	244
	Block Visibility Examples	244
	Summary	245
	The Form API	246
	Understanding Form Processing	2