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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

Changes to the cron system


A common problem for new administrators is setting up cron correctly. Depending on your host and operating system, you may not have access to cron or it may be difficult to configure. Thankfully, Drupal 7 provides automated cron functionality so that cron is always running after an installation.

The settings for cron can be found in the Site information settings within the Configuration section:

The automated cron system is triggered when a user visits your site after the cron interval has elapsed. The automated cron system is designed to work asynchronously in order to prevent performance from being impacted for the user who triggers cron. If you used Poormanscron (http://drupal.org/project/poormanscron) in Drupal 6, you will be very familiar with the Drupal 7 version.

If you prefer to use a true Unix-based cron system, simply change this setting to Never and then configure cron to run as usual.

Protection from unauthorized access

The new Drupal 7 cron also adds protection...