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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

Testing framework


Drupal 7 also introduces a new testing framework called SimpleTest that can be used to test the business logic of your modules. A full discussion of the testing process is beyond the scope of this book, but we will do a quick walkthrough of the framework and look at some of the hooks that your module may want to implement to interact with the SimpleTest framework. For a complete discussion of building tests using the SimpleTest framework, see: http://drupal.org/simpletest.

Setting up SimpleTest

To use SimpleTest, you need to do some configuration of your PHP installation.

  • The CURL extension for PHP must be enabled.

  • The DOM extension for PHP must be enabled. This should be done already in all installations of PHP 5.

  • A memory_limit of at least 256 MB should be configured.

  • SimpleTest must be enabled within the module manager. This is called Testing within the module manger.

  • HTTP authentication settings for SimpleTest should be configured correctly for your server at admin/config...