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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

.info file changes


A .info file is required by all modules in Drupal. The .info file gives Drupal information about your module. The .info file for modules is very similar to the .info files we looked at for installation profiles and themes. The big change to .info files is that you must now declare any associated PHP files that you plan on using from your module. Let's look at an example of a .info file for a fictional Drupal 7 Rocks module.

; $Id$
name = Drupal 7 Rocks
description = "Promotes the coolness of Drupal 7."
core = 7.x
package = Views
dependencies[] = Other
dependencies[] = panels
files[] = drupal_7_rocks.module
files[] = drupal_7_rocks.inc
files[] = drupal_7_rocks.admin.inc
files[] = includes/drupal_7_rocks.extra.inc

The structure of the file is the same as it was in Drupal 6; other than that the files array has been added and is now required. The files directive allows Drupal to dynamically load code from files more efficiently. It also allows you to place code that implements...