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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

New JavaScript functionality


Starting in Drupal 7, additional JavaScript tools have been included to make development easier and allow you to make your sites more dynamic. This also makes Drupal itself more dynamic and allows Drupal core to implement modern new functionality expected in today's websites.

jQuery tools

The following jQuery libraries are now included with Drupal by default:

  • jQuery 1.3.2—the latest version of jQuery is included with Drupal core and it is included on all pages by default so you don't need to do anything special to use jQuery in your theme.

  • jQuery UI 1.7.2—the latest version is included with Drupal in the misc/ui folder of the installation. Only UI core is included on all pages by default. If you want to utilize other scripts on your page, you will need to make appropriate calls to drupal_add_js and drupal_add_css from your theme or module.

  • jQuery Forms 2.21—jQuery Forms allow forms to utilize AJAX to submit the form. This functionality must be included with a call...