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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

Contributed modules


One of the major problems when moving from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 was the slow rate of migration for many of the modules and themes that were contributed to the Drupal project by Drupal community members. If a site relied on a module that had not been updated, they had to delay upgrading their sites, assist in conversion efforts, find an alternative solution, or rebuild the existing functionality themselves. Thankfully, this should not reoccur with migrations from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. A large number of module maintainers pledged to have full releases of their modules available the day that Drupal 7 is released. This list includes several key modules that are used by many sites.

We will look into some of the contributed modules that have Drupal 7 releases in Chapter 4, with information about changes you may need to make if you are using them in your Drupal 6 site.