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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

Configuring Date and Time display


In the last section, we noted that the Date and Time configuration settings have changed from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. Let's look at the changes in more detail.

The first tab on the Date and time settings page allows you to configure the date types that are available within the system. By default, there are three types available: Long, Medium, and Short.

You can add a new date type by clicking on the Add date type link. Let's build an Extra Long date type. On the Add date type screen, simply enter the name of the type (Drupal will create an internal name for you) and select the Date format you want to use from the list of available formats.

Click on the Add date type button when you are satisfied with your selections.

If you can't find the format you want in the list, you can build your own date format. Click on the FORMATS tab and you will see a list of all the custom date formats that have been defined. By default, there aren't any.

To add a new date format,...