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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

Minimum requirements for Drupal 7


Implementing all of these features does require some upgrades to other software on your server. Drupal 7 now requires PHP 5.2.0 or later to run the Drupal code. You will also need one of the following databases to run Drupal 7:

  • MySQL version 5.0 or later

  • PostgreSQL 8.3 or later

  • SQLite 3.4.2 or later

Most hosting companies will already have these installed, but if your server is a little out of date, now is the time to update.

As always, you can use either Apache HTTPD or Microsoft IIS for a web server, but Apache is recommended for best performance and community support.

Tip

Not all contributed modules for Drupal have been verified to work correctly with PHP 5.3. If you want to use PHP 5.3, carefully test all modules for proper compatibility.