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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

Taxonomy changes


Taxonomies in Drupal 7 build on taxonomies in previous versions. However, taxonomies have been promoted to first class objects and can be extended with fields. You can now access the taxonomy system by selecting Structure from the administration toolbar. You can then select the Taxonomy link.

To add a new vocabulary, simply click on the Add vocabulary link and add a Name and Description for the new vocabulary. As you name the vocabulary, Drupal will automatically create the default Machine name for you. If you don't like the default machine name, you can always override it. If you edit the vocabulary, you will be taken to a form where you can modify the Name and Description of the vocabulary.

From this screen, you can also access the terms and fields that have been defined for the vocabulary. Terms are accessed via the LIST tab, and fields are accessed via the MANAGE FIELDS and MANAGE DISPLAY tabs.

Fields can be added in exactly the same manner that we used to add fields to...