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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

Command-line installation


Administrators who manage lots of sites or who prefer to work from the command line will be thrilled with the change to make Drupal installable from the command line. If you want to run the installation from the command line, you will need to use the following procedure:

  1. Download Drupal from Drupal.org and copy the files to your server.

  2. Create a PHP script to run the Drupal command line using the following procedure:

    i. Create a file called install.site.php where site is the name of your site. This file should be located in the same directory where your install.php file is located (the root directory for your site).

    ii. Open the install.site.php file in your favorite file editor.

    iii. Enter the following script:

    <?php
    include_once 'install.php';
    
    $settings = array(
      'parameters' => array(
        'profile' => 'default',
        'locale' => 'en',
      ),
      'forms' => array(
        'install_settings_form' => array(
          'driver' => 'mysql',
          'database' =...