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Drupal 7 Development by Example Beginner's Guide

By : Kurt Madel
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Drupal 7 Development by Example Beginner's Guide

By: Kurt Madel

Overview of this book

<p>Drupal is a powerful PHP content management system that allows you to build a wide variety of websites. By combining the power of HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS, you can develop and customize a fully-functional, world-class website. This book also covers some important changes from Drupal 6 to version 7, so even experienced Drupal users will find this straightforward guide useful.</p> <p>Drupal 7 Development by Example Beginner's Guide has numerous code examples that will not only introduce new Drupal 7 development concepts, but will give you the skills needed to build a world-class Drupal website. By following the development of a recipe-sharing, e-commerce site, you will quickly and easily get your own Drupal site up and running.</p> <p>Starting from a solid Drupal 7development environment, this book will show you how to extend Drupal with front-end code using Ajax, jQuery, and server side PHP. In addition to learning how to integrate HTML5, the book will cover responsive web design, and cutting edge CSS3. Using the example of an e-commerce and social networking site, this book will develop your Drupal programming skills so that you will be capable of developing advanced code good enough to be shared with the Drupal community.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Drupal 7 Development by Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – installing Git for Windows


For Windows, we are going to use msysgit available at http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list.

  1. Download the most recent version of the full installer for the official Git, currently G it-1.7.6-preview20110708.exe, and then double-click on the downloaded file link to begin the installation process.

  2. Click on Next, and then click Next again on the GNU General Public License screen.

  3. On the Select Destination Location screen, click on Next to accept the default destination.

  4. On the Select Components screen, accept the defaults again, and click on Next.

  5. On the Adjusting your PATH Environment screen, select Run Git and included Unix tools from the Windows Command Prompt as this will allow Git to work with Drush, which we will cover next.

What just happened?

You have installed the Git version control system—a tool that will greatly facilitate interaction with the existing contributed code at Drupal.org.