Drupal 7 First Look. Learn the new features of Drupal 7, how they work and how they will impact you

Drupal 7 First Look. Learn the new features of Drupal 7, how they work and how they will impact you - Opis

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 typesImproved user interface for administering your websiteBuilt-in support for working with images and filesImproved security for the site and users of the siteCompletely rewritten database layer DBTNG to make working with the database easier and more secure. Improved API for custom module development and user interface theming Spis treści:
Drupal 7 First Look
Table of Contents
Drupal 7 First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader (...) więcej feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Whats New In Drupal 7?
Goals of Drupal 7
Key new features in Drupal 7
Improved installation
New administration toolbar and overlay administration
Improved interface for creating content
Improved interface for creating new content types
New Field API
Additional support for files and images
Improved filter system
Added context information to messages during translation
Built-in automated cron functionality
Improved security
Added a new plugin manager
Added the Seven theme for administration
Added the jQuery UI to core
Allows additional preprocessing of themed information
Added the New Stark theme
Rewritten database layer (DBTNG)
Improved node access system
Added the Queue API for long-running tasks
Added a new test framework
RDF capabilities
Unmet goals
Key changes to Drupal 7
Removed functionality
Contributed modules
Minimum requirements for Drupal 7
Summary
2. Installation and Upgrades
Installing Drupal 7
Obtaining Drupal
Selecting an installation profile
Minimal profile
Standard profile
Language selection
Requirements check
Database configuration
Configure site
New home page
Command-line installation
Upgrading from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7
Creating custom installation profiles
Components of an installation profile
The .info file
The .profile file
The .install file
File structure
Block creation
Node type definition
Additional default settings
Setting up permissions and roles
Theme configuration
Summary
3. Site Building with Drupal 7
Creating content
Selecting a content type to create
Content UI
Creating node summaries
Formatting text
Additional node properties
Creating new content types with custom fields
Creating a custom content type
Additional content type properties
Display settings
Comment settings
Menu settings
Field API
Boolean fields
Numeric fields (Decimal, Float, and Integer)
File fields
Term Reference fields
Text fields
Text field
Long text field
Long text and summary field
Field display
Taxonomy changes
Image styles
Comment changes
Removed functionality
Summary
4. Drupal 7 Administration
New administration interface
Administration toolbar
Dashboard
Overlay window
Appearance section
Installing and updating themes and modules
Installing new themes and modules
Updating themes and modules
People section
Modules section
Configuration section
Configuring settings
Regional and language
Regional settings
Date and time
Language
Translate interface
Search and metadata
Clean URLs
Search settings
URL aliases
Development
Logging and errors
Maintenance mode
Performance
Testing
Media section
File system
Image styles
Image toolkit
System section
Site information
Actions
Shortcuts
Statistics
People and permissions section
Account settings
Roles
Permissions
IP address blocking
Profiles
Web Services section
Feed aggregator
RSS publishing
Content Authoring section
Text formats
Shortcuts
Edit Anywhere
Configuring Date and Time display
User management
Account settings
User fields
Password strength meter
Login rate limitations
Search
Changes to the cron system
Protection from unauthorized access
Reports
Field list report
Summary
5. Drupal 7 for Themers
Template changes
Everything there is to know about .info files
html.tpl.php
Rendering the entire page with page.tpl.php
Theming individual regions with region.tpl.php
Theming individual nodes with node.tpl.php
template.php
Other changes
New JavaScript functionality
jQuery tools
AJAX framework from CTools
Including other JavaScript libraries
CSS changes
System classes
Classes array
Hiding information
Theme API changes
Signature changes
Alter hooks
New methods
template_preprocess_menu_tree(&$variables)
template_preprocess_username(&$variables)
template_process_username(&$variables)
theme_admin_block($variables)
theme_confirm_form($variables)
theme_container($variables)
theme_dashboard($variables)
theme_dashboard_admin($variables)
theme_dashboard_disabled_block($variables)
theme_dashboard_disabled_blocks($variables)
theme_dashboard_region($variables)
theme_filter_guidelines($variables)
theme_form_element_label($variables)
theme_form_required_marker($variables)
theme_forum_form($variables)
theme_html_tag($variables)
theme_image_anchor($variables)
theme_image_crop_summary($variables)
theme_image_resize_summary($variables)
theme_image_rotate_summary($variables)
theme_image_scale_summary($variables)
theme_image_style_effects($variables)
theme_image_style_list($variables)
theme_image_style_preview($variables)
theme_link($variables)
theme_locale_date_format_form($variables)
theme_locale_languages_configure_form($variables)
theme_locale_translation_filters($variables)
theme_menu_link(array $variables)
theme_menu_local_action($variables)
theme_rdf_metadata($variables)
theme_rdf_template_variable_wrapper($variables)
theme_shortcut_set_customize($variables)
theme_system_compact_link()
theme_system_date_time_settings($variables)
theme_system_modules_fieldset($variables)
theme_system_modules_incompatible($variables)
theme_system_run_cron_image($variables)
theme_system_settings_form($variables)
theme_system_themes_page($variables)
theme_text_format_wrapper($variables)
theme_update_last_check($variables)
theme_update_manager_update_form($variables)
theme_user_admin_permissions($variables)
theme_vertical_tabs($variables)
Removed methods
Upgrading Drupal 6 themes to Drupal 7
Summary
6. Drupal 7 Database Changes
What is DBTNG?
Background
Key concepts in DBTNG
Drivers
Connections
Statements
Queries
Using select statements
Static queries
Limiting the data returned
Adding parameters to static queries
Query options
Saving query results to a temporary table
Dynamic queries
Working with fields
Ordering results
Joining tables
Preventing duplicate records
Retrieving summary information
Using expressions to retrieve and manipulate data
Limiting the data returned
Dynamic query extensions
Paging records
Sorting data
Custom extensions
Adding conditions to a query
Condition method
Where method
Chaining conditions
Working with result sets
fetch and fetchAll
fetchObject
fetchAssoc
fetchAllAssoc
fetchField
fetchAllKeyed
fetchCol
Direct iteration
Tagging queries
insert statement syntax
Inserting single records
Inserting multiple records
Inserting records from another query
Delayed inserts
update statement syntax
merge statement syntax
delete statement syntax
truncate statement syntax
Transaction support
Master/slave replication
SQLite support
Summary
7. Drupal 7 for Developers
.info file changes
Drupal hook changes
Hooks split by op code
Other changed hooks
hook_load
hook_system_info_alter
hook_view
New hooks
hook_admin_paths
hook_admin_paths_alter
hook_archiver_info
hook_css_alter
hook_dashboard_regions
hook_dashboard_regions_alter
hook_date_formats
hook_date_formats_alter
hook_date_format_types
hook_drupal_goto_alter
hook_library
hook_library_alter
hook_modules_disabled
hook_modules_enabled
hook_modules_installed
hook_modules_uninstalled
hook_openid
hook_openid_response
hook_path_delete
hook_path_insert
hook_path_update
hook_registry_files_alter
hook_overlay_child_initialize
hook_overlay_parent_initialize
hook_shortcut_default_set
hook_system_info_alter
hook_url_inbound_alter
hook_url_outbound_alter
hook_username_alter
hook_xmlrpc_alter
module_hook_info
Removed methods
Menu system changes
New hooks
hook_menu_active_handler_alter
hook_menu_contextual_links_alter
hook_menu_delete
hook_menu_insert
hook_menu_local_tasks_alter
hook_menu_update
New methods
Changed methods
menu_execute_active_handler
menu_get_names
menu_local_tasks
menu_router_build
menu_tree_all_data
menu_tree_data
menu_tree_page_data
Removed methods
Form API changes
New Form API hooks
hook_element_info
hook_element_info_alter
hook_form_system_theme_settings_alter
hook_node_prepare
Changed methods
form_type parameter renamed
drupal_rebuild_form
drupal_redirect_form
form_builder
form_set_error
form_type_image_button_value
New methods
Removed methods
File handling system
New file hooks
hook_file_copy
hook_file_delete
hook_file_insert
hook_file_load
hook_file_mimetype_mapping_alter
hook_file_move
hook_file_references
hook_file_update
hook_file_url_alter
hook_file_validate
Changed hooks
New and changed methods
PHP method wrappers
File IO
File information
Stream wrapper implementations
URI and URL handling
.htaccess file protection
Removed methods
Field API
Entities
Field types
Field instances
Field bundles
Displaying fields in forms with field widgets
Displaying field data
Saving, retrieving, and deleting field data
Getting information about fields
Node access and permission changes
Added methods
hook_node_access
hook_node_access_records_alter
hook_node_grants_alter
hook_user_cancel
hook_user_cancel_methods_alter
hook_user_role_delete, hook_user_role_insert, and hook_user_role_update
node_list_permissions
node_permissions_get_configured_types
user_role_permissions
user_role_grant_permissions, user_role_change_permissions, and user_role_revoke_permissions
Changed methods
Text filter changes

hook_filter_format_delete
hook_filter_format_insert
hook_filter_format_update
hook_filter_info
hook_filter_info_alter
Removed methods
Taxonomy changes

hook_taxonomy_term_delete
hook_taxonomy_term_insert
hook_taxonomy_term_load
hook_taxonomy_term_update
hook_taxonomy_vocabulary_delete
hook_taxonomy_vocabulary_insert
hook_taxonomy_vocabulary_load
hook_taxonomy_vocabulary_update
Removed methods
Searching changes
Added methods
hook_search_access
hook_search_admin
hook_search_execute
hook_search_info
hook_search_reset
hook_search_status
hook_node_search_result
hook_node_update_index
hook_ranking
Changed methods
Removed methods
Cron changes

hook_cron_queue_info
Tokens
hook_tokens
hook_token_info
hook_token_info_alter
token_info
Image handling
hook_image_default_styles
hook_image_styles_alter
hook_image_style_delete
hook_image_style_flush
hook_image_style_save
hook_image_effect_info
hook_image_toolkits
Trigger changes
RDF API
Translation API changes
hook_language_fallback_candidates_alter
hook_language_negotiation_info
hook_language_negotiation_info_alter
hook_language_switch_links_alter
hook_language_types_info
hook_language_types_info_alter
hook_multilingual_settings_changed
hook_node_prepare_translation
Coder module
Testing framework
Setting up SimpleTest
Running tests
Creating Tests
Available hooks
hook_test_finished
hook_test_group_started
hook_test_group_finished
hook_simpletest_alter
Summary
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