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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

Tokens


The Token API has also had several new methods added to it to make creation of tokens easier as well as making it possible to change tokens defined by other modules. Let's look at each new method in detail.

hook_tokens

hook_tokens($type, $tokens, array $data = array(), array $options = array())

This method is called to perform the actual translation of tokens from placeholders into the correct value for the text. The tokens array will contain a list of all tokens that were found in the source text. You should return an associative array with the values for each token that your module defines. For more information on translating tokens as well as the options available, see: http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_tokens/7.

hook_token_info

hook_token_info()

This hook is used to define information about the token types and specific tokens that are defined by a module. For more information on the format as well as examples, see:

http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_token_info/7.

hook_token_info_alter...