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Drupal 7 Development by Example Beginner's Guide

By : Kurt Madel
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Drupal 7 Development by Example Beginner's Guide

By: Kurt Madel

Overview of this book

<p>Drupal is a powerful PHP content management system that allows you to build a wide variety of websites. By combining the power of HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS, you can develop and customize a fully-functional, world-class website. This book also covers some important changes from Drupal 6 to version 7, so even experienced Drupal users will find this straightforward guide useful.</p> <p>Drupal 7 Development by Example Beginner's Guide has numerous code examples that will not only introduce new Drupal 7 development concepts, but will give you the skills needed to build a world-class Drupal website. By following the development of a recipe-sharing, e-commerce site, you will quickly and easily get your own Drupal site up and running.</p> <p>Starting from a solid Drupal 7development environment, this book will show you how to extend Drupal with front-end code using Ajax, jQuery, and server side PHP. In addition to learning how to integrate HTML5, the book will cover responsive web design, and cutting edge CSS3. Using the example of an e-commerce and social networking site, this book will develop your Drupal programming skills so that you will be capable of developing advanced code good enough to be shared with the Drupal community.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Drupal 7 Development by Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Author

Kurt Madel is a Senior Manager and developer for Captech Consulting in Richmond, VA. He has worked on open source CMS projects for over six years. Kurt contributes regularly to Drupal.org, and is the maintainer of several modules. In addition to Drupal, Kurt has been doing Java EE development since 2000, and has focused on mobile web development over the last two years. When he is not writing or programming, Kurt enjoys cycling and spending time with his wife and four boys.