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Drupal 7 Cookbook

By : Dylan Spencer James
Book Image

Drupal 7 Cookbook

By: Dylan Spencer James

Overview of this book

<p>Drupal 7 is a modern Content Management System famed for its flexibility and power. Using Drupal you can easily create custom functionality that would otherwise have to be purchased in many of the other leading CMSs.<br /><br />"Drupal 7 Cookbook" is filled with recipes to help you to do more with Drupal and improve your skills. Chapters range from content creation, to theming, to managing your site. You will learn how to create your own content types and use them to create Views, Blocks, and Pages. This book will take you from novice to pro in just 12 chapters.<br /><br />In a wide variety of practical recipes, you will learn how to work with views and panels, how to provide translations for your content to create a multilingual site, and to integrate your site with social media. You can develop the Zen starter theme or learn how to create custom cross-browser compatible Drupal themes, including themes for mobile devices. The Drupal 7 Cookbook contains all of the means necessary to take your skills from those of a novice Drupal user to a proficient site builder.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Drupal 7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Building a grid view of profile pictures


By default, in Drupal, there is no default output of the users registered on the site. In this recipe, we will create a staff-listing page which displays the profile pictures of all staff members above their names and job titles.

Getting ready

Before starting this recipe you will need to install the latest recommended releases of the following two modules:

Once you have installed these modules, enable the following features:

  • Chaos tools

  • Views

  • Views UI

How to do it...

In this recipe, we will first add some extra fields to the user profile; we will also be adding a new Employee user role. We will then make a View to display the staff members in a grid form, and finally we will add some test users to demonstrate the output.

  1. 1. Select Configuration from the admin menu, then select Account settings.

  2. 2. Select the Manage fields tab.

  3. 3. In the Add new field row, enter Job title.

  4. 4. In the Field name...