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Drupal 7 Social Networking

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Drupal 7 Social Networking

Overview of this book

Drupal is ideally equipped to serve as a base system for creating a custom social networking site like Facebook or MySpace. While these large social networks have their place, niche social networking websites can help promote businesses, products, projects, and hobbies of any nature. Drupal 7 Social Networking provides careful instructions and clear explanations to take you through the setup and management of your social network site, covering topics from users, to marketing, to maintenance. It will help you create your own social networking site, suitable for whatever audience you choose! Starting from the very basics of both Drupal and Social Networking, right through to more complicated aspects, you will progressively learn how to add to and expand your social networking site and add more features. You will learn how to secure your social network, deploy it on the Internet, and keep it running and well maintained. As social networking sites rely on the participation of their users, this book helps you to structure your site in such a way so that users can easily and enjoyably contribute, thus creating a powerful social network.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Drupal 7 Social Networking
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Collaborative writing


Drupal's book module provides our users with a wiki-based collaboration platform, wherein they can create structured, multi-page content on our site, for things such as the following:

  • Resources and guides

  • Manuals

  • Frequently asked questions

  • An online book

A suitable use for this module for our site would be to allow our users to create and contribute to a book about looking after a dinosaur throughout its lifetime. In turn, this would provide other users with a valuable resource, which they too can collaborate on if they have advice or information to share. Of course, as our site grows it would be better to have more books related to specific breeds of dinosaur, which is something we can work to accommodate as our social network starts to grow.

Creating a book

The first stage in creating a new collaborative book is to create a new book page; this will serve as the contents page, and the primary page for the book. We can create this page from the Add content screen:

As with all...