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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have reviewed many of the changes to the Drupal API including coverage of the methods which been added, changed, or removed from the API. Throughout the chapter, we have looked at the API in terms of upgrading your existing modules and site code to Drupal 7.

We have now reached the end of the book. I hope that you have enjoyed learning all about the new features and functionality that have been added to Drupal 7, and that you agree that Drupal 7 is a truly impressive release that will make your site easier to build, more powerful, and more secure.

You should now be well prepared to upgrade your Drupal 6 sites to Drupal 7 and begin building new sites with Drupal 7. For more information on building sites with Drupal 7, check out the official Drupal site at http://drupal.org or look at the other great books about Drupal from Packt Publishing at http://www.packtpub.com/drupal-books.