Drupal 7 Cookbook

Drupal 7 Cookbook

By : Dylan Spencer James

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Drupal 7 Cookbook

By: Dylan Spencer James

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Overview of this book

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. "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. 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.

Drupal 7 Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

Free Chapter

Installing and Configuring Drupal

Introduction

Installing Drupal

Installing Drupal distributions

Installing modules and themes

Setting up site search

Creating a multi-site Drupal installation

Creating and Publishing Content

Introduction

Creating a basic page and adding it to the main menu

Installing and configuring a WYSIWYG editor

Editing existing content and adding an image

Adjusting the tabbed settings for content nodes

Configuring comments

Publishing an RSS feed of basic pages

Working with Blocks

Introduction

Adding a new block

Creating a submenu block

Creating a Superfish menu block

Creating a block with Views

Adding a new block region to a theme

Creating a mega-footer menu

Conditional display of a block

Custom Content Types

Introduction

Creating a basic content type

Configuring the output of a content type

Applying an image format

Installing more field types

Creating a more advanced content type

Building a custom content importer

Building a forum

Using Views to Create Custom Lists, Grids, and Tables

Introduction

Creating a news listing view

Creating a dynamic view

Creating a latest news block

Creating a news image grid view

Creating a randomly selected list of images

Creating an archived content block and view

Building complex views using relationships

Adding a text search filter to a view

Using attachments to extend Views' output

Creating Flexible Pages Using Panels

Introduction

Adding custom text to a page

Adding a block to a page

Adding a dynamic view to a page

Configuring the visibility of the page

Creating a custom page layout using the Layout builder

Working with Media

Introduction

Creating a simple slideshow carousel

Creating a document content type

Creating a simple document library

Linking documents to a content type

Adding video to a content type

Integrating Web APIs

Introduction

Integrating with Facebook

Displaying a live Twitter feed

Adding simple PayPal integration to content types

Setting up the Add this social bookmarking service

Adding a Google Map to content

Creating Regular, Mobile, and Tablet Themes

Introduction

Creating a new theme using Zen

Overriding HTML output of a content type

Creating a "bare-bones" theme from scratch

Using the Mobile tools module

Installing an off-the-shelf mobile and tablet theme

Configuring theme compression and caching

Working with Other Languages

Introduction

Installing another language using Locale

Managing interface translation using Locale

Enabling content type translation

Displaying a language switching block for end users

Creating a multilingual View

Managing Users

Introduction

Creating new user accounts

Managing user roles

Setting up a new user notification

Adding a biography field to the user profile

Building a grid view of profile pictures

Running Drupal

Introduction

System maintenance

Setting up a backup system

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) with Drupal

Securing a Drupal installation

Configuring Drupal caching

Running commands with the Drush tool

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Using attachments to extend Views' output

In this chapter, we have seen how we can create a View to output lists of nodes of a particular content type. This is perfectly adequate for most uses, but it can become slightly repetitive when you have many listings on a site. In this recipe we will be creating a view that has two displays, one which displays the three most recent news articles, each with a thumbnail image, a title, and some body text. We will then create another display to output a further 10 News articles, but in a less detailed format. Using the technique learnt in this recipe you will be able to create a multitude of Views with mixed formats suitable for pages such as homepages or landing pages, where plain list views are not quite enough.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe you will need to have first completed the first recipe in this chapter, Creating a news listing view. We will be making use of the News article content type.

How to do it...

We will begin by creating a...

Drupal 7 Cookbook

By : Dylan Spencer James

Drupal 7 Cookbook

By: Dylan Spencer James

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