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Drupal 7 First Look

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Drupal 7 First Look

Overview of this book

Drupal 7 contains features for which site administrators have been clamoring for years, including support for fields, an improved administration interface, better database support, improved theming, and more. You could of course make a laborious search on sites, blogs, and many online tutorials that would promise to update you about every new feature, but there's an even better way to know all about Drupal 7's new features: Drupal 7 First Look is the first and only book that covers all of the fantastic new features in Drupal 7 in depth and covers the process of upgrading your Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7. If you've used Drupal 6 and want to use Drupal 7, you need this book.Drupal 7 First Look takes an in-depth look into all of the major new features in Drupal 7 so you can quickly take full advantage of Drupal 7. It also assists you in upgrading your site to Drupal 7. Some of the new features in Drupal 7 include: Fields API, based on Drupal 6 CCK, which allows you to easily build your own content types Improved user interface for administering your website Built-in support for working with images and files Improved security for the site and users of the site Completely rewritten database layer DBTNG to make working with the database easier and more secure. Improved API for custom module development and user interface theming
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Drupal 7 First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Creating custom installation profiles


Installation profiles allow you to easily install Drupal with additional functionality included by default. For example, you can set up an installation profile to:

  • Automatically add additional users to your site

  • Add additional roles to your site

  • Set up permissions for default users

  • Add additional contributed modules to your site

  • Add additional themes to your site

  • Add default content to your site

  • Modify common settings to speed setup

As you can see, the options for installation profiles are nearly limitless in Drupal 7. This is especially true because installation profiles are essentially modules now, and you can do nearly anything you want to with a custom module in an installation profile.

If you are only maintaining a single site, you probably won't want to create an installation profile, but if you are setting up many new customer sites each month, you should definitely consider building a custom installation profile to set up a base site that you can then...