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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

Text filter changes


To support the changes to text formats in Drupal 7, the Drupal API has been extended to allow modules to have additional interaction with the filter system. Modules can now define filters, alter existing filters, and handle filters being added, deleted, or changed. Let's look at each of the new hooks in more detail now.

hook_filter_format_delete

hook_filter_format_delete($format, $fallback)

This hook allows you to react when a filter has been deleted from the system. If any content that you are maintaining with your modules uses the format which is being deleted, you should update the content to use a new format. The fallback format is guaranteed to be valid.

hook_filter_format_insert

hook_filter_format_insert($format)

This hook allows your module to react when a new filter format has been created. You can use this opportunity to update any content you manage for the new format or any other options you deem necessary.

hook_filter_format_update

hook_filter_format_update($format...