Drupal 6 Content Administration. Maintain, add to, and edit content of your Drupal site with ease

Dries Buytaert, J. Ayen Green

Often a company hires a web designer to build its Drupal site, and then takes over running the site in house. This book is for the Content Editors concerned with the ongoing creation and maintenance of the site content.In a few hours, you'll have the knowledge needed to maintain and edit your web site as a content-rich place that visitors return to again and again. There are many books available to help you administer a Drupal site, but this is the only one specifically for Content Editors. This book doesn't cover designing or creating a site. However, anybody who has built their own site but needs some help using the article management features will also benefit from it.This book is a quick-start guide, aimed at Content Editors. The author's experience enables him to explain in an efficient and interactive manner how you can keep your site up to date. The book begins with a discussion of content management and Drupal and then teaches you how to create content, add elements to it, and make the content findable. You will then learn to set up the framework for a creative team and the various options for editing content offline, their benefits and pitfalls.This book helps you to quickly and easily solve problems, and manage content and users for a web site. It will help you become a more effective and efficient manager of Drupal-based web sites.

Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization. Rank high in search engines with professional SEO tips, modules, and best practices for Drupal web sites

Ben Finklea

The earlier a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. Despite several advantages, many Drupal sites suffer with poor search engine standings. Perhaps you are aware of the importance of SEO for increasing traffic to your site, but do you know how to apply it to your Drupal site? Here comes the first book about search engine optimization for Drupal sites.This practical, step-by-step guide takes the mystery out of Drupal search engine optimization (SEO) by showing you the tricks of today's top marketing pros to achieve top ranking in the search engines. This isn't a book of Drupal SEO theory ñ it's a practical guide showing you which modules to install, which settings to use, and dozens of the most closely guarded tricks of the trade to get your web site optimized, higher in the search engines, and more profitable.With this book and basic Drupal 6 knowledge ñ how to log in, create content, and install modules ñ you can build a perfectly search engine optimized web site. Each chapter uses easy, step-by-step instructions to walk you through the Drupal SEO modules, configurations, and content you will need to increase traffic on your web site. You start by reviewing the modules and tools that you should use to optimize your site, how to set up your analytics, and so on. Each subsequent chapter gives detailed instructions on implementing these features in Drupal. Later chapters cover topics like site organization, A/B testing, and automatic content tagging to maximize SEO and increase the conversion rate of your web site. When you have completed the book, you will have implemented the changes to your site required to rank well in the search engines. If you want to maximize the return on investment of your Drupal 6 web site and gain a significant advantage over competitors who are not using Drupal, then this book is for you. Imagine how great you'll feel when your site is optimized to increase the number of visitors and convert them into paying customers.

Drupal 6 Theming Cookbook. Over 100 clear step-by-step recipes to create powerful, great-looking Drupal themes

Karthik Kumar, Dries Buytaert

Themes are among the most powerful features that can be used to customize a website to fit your needs. The greatest strength of Drupal lies in its design, which, when done right, allows developers to customize every aspect of the site. Although it might sound easy to customize the look of your site, it's not a cakewalk to build custom themes that are easy to administer and maintain.Drupal 6 Theming Cookbook provides a plethora of recipes that enable Drupal template designers to make full use of Drupal's extensibility and style their site just the way they want it. It is a well-rounded guide, which will allow users looking to theme their Drupal sites to do so by taking full advantage of Drupal's theming system. It covers numerous aspects from creating custom themes to using the powerful CCK, Views, and Panels modules to create rich designs that are easy to administer and maintain.Structured as a collection of recipes to perform a wide variety of tasks, this book will guide readers through most important aspects of Drupal theming. It starts off with recipes dealing with the basics of Drupal's theme system: you will find recipes for solving all your problems with regions and blocks. It then moves on to advanced topics such as creating a custom theme and using it to modify the layout and style of the content that is output on a page. A substantial number of recipes are dedicated to Drupal's template system, which will provide you with a solid foundation in order to override the output of Drupal and contributed modules. Furthermore, as the combination of modules such as CCK, Views, and Panels is so widely prevalent, chapters have been dedicated for each of these modules. With this book, you'll learn to get the most out of Drupal's templating system and its modules to create rich designs for your site.

Drupal 7 Business Solutions. Drupal open source content management is the perfect solution for small business websites, and this book takes you through the whole process step-by-step, from installing Drupal to incorporating sophisticated e-commerce modules

Trevor James, Mark Noble

You can use the Drupal 7 content management system to build a small business website quickly. You may add blogs, images, maps, e-commerce, social application integration, and more to your site to connect with your customers and make more money from your business.Drupal 7 Business Solutions will give you hands-on practical tutorials on how to build a rich and dynamic website for your business quickly using one of the most popular tools in open source.You'll start by adding blogs and images to your website. Then you'll learn how to add a VIP section to your site so that you can give your logged in users special discounts and other VIP freebies. Next, you will learn to send your customers e-mail newsletters and show them a dynamic events calendar.The book will then teach you to add e-commerce to your site so you can sell your products online. You'll add YouTube videos and Google maps to help enhance your business site. You will then learn to incorporate feedback mechanisms for your customers.The book also explains how to maintain your site, upgrade it, and continue adding dynamic content to it.

Drupal 7. Ćwiczenia praktyczne

Pawel Philipczyk

Zachwyć się Drupalem! Wczoraj i dziś, czyli skąd wziął się Drupal i do czego służy Struktura i wygląd, czyli ważne elementy strony WWW Moduły i ich konfiguracja, czyli jak osiągnąć właściwy efekt Dobre systemy zarządzania treścią są dziś jednym z najbardziej poszukiwanych towarów na rynku. Każdy chce mieć swoją własną (lub firmową) stronę internetową - jak najlepszą, interesującą i zarazem prostą w obsłudze. Jednocześnie prawie nikt nie ma tyle czasu i samozaparcia, by zgłębiać tajniki kodu HTML czy innych, bardziej skomplikowanych języków programowania. Odpowiedni CMS jest więc na wagę złota! Wśród nieprzeliczonej ilości najróżniejszych systemów zarządzania treścią zdecydowanie wyróżnia się Drupal, umożliwiający bezproblemowe tworzenie dowolnych stron WWW. Tę elastyczność zapewnia mu struktura, w ramach której projektant witryny może łączyć dowolne potrzebne mu moduły, nadawać pożądany wygląd i konfigurować całość według własnego uznania. Książka "Drupal 7. Ćwiczenia praktyczne" powstała po to, byś i Ty mógł skorzystać z niesamowitych możliwości Drupala. Znajdziesz tu informacje konieczne do rozpoczęcia pracy z tym systemem, skonfigurowania go oraz zaopatrzenia w niezbędne elementy. Nauczysz się zarządzać zawartością serwisu, odpowiednio uważnie traktować kwestie menu i nawigacji, dbać o wygląd witryny. Zrozumiesz, dlaczego różnym użytkownikom nadaje się różne uprawnienia, i odkryjesz, jak proste może być łączenie potrzebnych modułów. Poznasz także zaawansowane sposoby konfiguracji i raportowania. A wszystko to w serii praktycznych ćwiczeń — zanim się zorientujesz, Twoja zachwycająca strona WWW będzie już w pełni gotowa! Historia powstania Drupala Instalacja serwera i systemu Podstawowa konfiguracja i nawigacja Zawartość serwisu i kategorie Menu i nawigacja Bloki i obszary Wygląd i skórki Użytkownicy i uprawnienia Internacjonalizacja Moduły Konfiguracja i raporty Szukanie pomocy i rozwiązywanie problemów Drupal 7 - Twoja strona nabierze blasku!

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

Mark Noble, Dries Buytaert

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

Drupal 7 Media. Integrate, implement, and extend rich media resources such as images, videos, and audio on your Drupal 7 website with this book and ebook - Third Edition

Liran Tal

Integrating images, video, and audio content on a Drupal site requires knowledge of appropriate community modules, and an understanding of how to configure and connect them properly. With the power of up-to-date technologies such as HTML5, responsive web design, and the best modules available in Drupal's eco-system, we can create the best Drupal 7 media website.Drupal 7 Media is a practical, hands-on guide that will introduce you to the basic structure of a Drupal site and guide you through the integration of images, videos, and audio content. Learn to leverage the most suitable community modules and up-to-date technology such as HTML5 to offer a great user experience through rich media content.The book begins with a practical introduction to the basic Drupal building blocks. It then breaks down each media resource, and explores them in detail.You will learn how to leverage Drupal's community modules to implement support for images, videos, and audio content, along with the best practices for implementation. We will be mentioning ideas throughout the book, which you can extend upon and use to build your own web applications. We will explore HTML5 support for media resources, the semantic web, and responsive web design, which are key topics in modern web application development. We will then build upon this knowledge and add more functionality to our sample website, such as support for analytic charts and customizing images, all of which we will implement using our own custom modules.You will learn everything you need to know about building, extending, and configuring a Drupal 7 media web application.

Drupal 7 Multi Sites Configuration. Run multiple websites from a single instance of Drupal 7 with this book and

Matt Butcher

Drupal is one of the most powerful PHP Content Management Systems there is. However, why would you install a CMS for every site you build? With just one copy of Drupal you can host several sites. Drupal has long had multi-site support, and Drupal 7's support is even better than previous versions. Drupal 7 Multi-Sites Configuration will teach you how to host several websites on a single copy of Drupal. You will learn how to create different sites, each with its own domain, content, and theme. This valuable information will help you to save time by managing modules and sharing them across several sites as well as administering your sites all in one place.This book will show you how to configure a system for multi-site, and then install several sites on one copy of Drupal, all with their own domain name and database. Learn how to install and share modules and themes, configure Apache, PHP, and MySQL for multi-site, and then manage the site. Once your site system is successfully set up, discover some of the advanced configurations possible with Drupal multi-site, as well as how to upgrade and maintain your sites.

Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites. A hands-on, practical guide for configuring your Drupal 7 website to handle all languages for your site users with this book and

Kristen Pol

Drupal is one of the most powerful and popular PHP Content Management Systems at the moment. By making your site multilingual, you are opening the door to a whole new user base, in as many countries as you like. Use the localization and internationalization features of Drupal 7 to automatically detect where your site users are visiting from and select the content appropriate to them. The world is your oyster!Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites guides you through the wild world of localization and internationalization with practical and real-world exercises that you can apply to your own website. You will go from theory to practice and acquire the skills you need to make a user-friendly Drupal 7 site that supports multiple languages.You will follow focused chapter exercises to add multiple-language support for your user interface, content, and various parts of your site's configuration such as system variables, menus, and blocks.The latter half of the book fills in the details with step-by-step exercises for localizing the interface, the content, and the configuration. Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites will give you the knowledge and the skills necessary to configure your site to support your language needs.

Drupal 7. Od podstaw

Todd Tomlinson

Poznaj przyjazne środowisko do tworzenia witryn WWW! Jak rozpocząć przygodę z Drupalem 7? Jak instalować moduły rozszerzające funkcjonalność Drupala? Jak zintegrować Drupala z serwisami społecznościowymi? Drupal to jedna z najpopularniejszych platform do tworzenia serwisów WWW. Dzięki niemu przygotujesz witrynę o dowolnej tematyce i dowolnym stopniu zaawansowania. Prywatna strona domowa, blog, firmowa strona WWW, rozbudowany portal? Żaden problem! Wiedza zawarta w tej książce oraz możliwości systemu Drupal zagwarantują sukces w każdym z wymienionych przypadków. Niniejsza książka poświęcona jest najnowszej wersji tej platformy, oznaczonej numerem 7. Stanowi ona kompletny przewodnik, dzięki któremu poznasz kroki konieczne do uruchomienia oraz skonfigurowania Twojej własnej strony WWW, opartej na Drupalu. W trakcie lektury nauczysz się tworzyć treści na stronę, zarządzać nimi oraz organizować je. Ponadto dowiesz się, jak tworzyć konta użytkowników, instalować motywy graficzne, korzystać z funkcji interaktywnych oraz projektować formularze. Zaznajomisz się z dostępnymi modułami, rozszerzającymi funkcjonalność Drupala, oraz metodami integracji z serwisami społecznościowymi, takimi jak Twitter, Facebook, YouTube. Książka ta stanowi idealne źródło informacji dla wszystkich czytelników, którzy chcą rozpocząć przygodę z platformą Drupal. Zaawansowani użytkownicy również znajdą w niej interesujące informacje. Instalowanie systemu Drupal Tworzenie i organizowanie treści Zarządzanie informacjami publikowanymi na stronach WWW Tworzenie kont użytkowników i administrowanie nimi Przygotowywanie słowników Projektowanie menu Instalowanie motywów graficznych Wybrane moduły rozszerzające funkcjonalność Uruchamianie funkcji blogowania Projektowanie formularzy internetowych Wykorzystanie technologii AJAX Tworzenie kanałów RSS Prace administracyjne przy witrynie Integracja z serwisami społecznościowymi Sklep internetowy w Drupalu Stwórz i opublikuj swoją pierwszą witrynę, wykonaną z wykorzystaniem Drupala!

Drupal 7 Social Networking. Build a social or community website with friends lists, groups, custom user profiles, and much more

MICHAEL KEITH PEACOCK, Dries Buytaert

Drupal is ideally equipped to serve as a base system for creating a custom social networking site like Facebook or MySpace. While these large social networks have their place, niche social networking websites can help promote businesses, products, projects, and hobbies of any nature.Drupal 7 Social Networking provides careful instructions and clear explanations to take you through the setup and management of your social network site, covering topics from users, to marketing, to maintenance. It will help you create your own social networking site, suitable for whatever audience you choose!Starting from the very basics of both Drupal and Social Networking, right through to more complicated aspects, you will progressively learn how to add to and expand your social networking site and add more features. You will learn how to secure your social network, deploy it on the Internet, and keep it running and well maintained. As social networking sites rely on the participation of their users, this book helps you to structure your site in such a way so that users can easily and enjoyably contribute, thus creating a powerful social network.

Drupal 7 w praktyce. Własna strona WWW w jeden dzień

Krzysztof Palikowski

Stwórz stronę WWW z Drupalem - zrealizuj dowolny pomysł! Przygotowania i instalacja, czyli jak zacząć pracę z Drupalem na własnym komputerze. Projekt i budowa strony, czyli jak zadbać o strukturę i prezentację treści. Przenosiny do internetu, czyli jak uniknąć szkolnych błędów i głupich pomyłek. Rozwijany od 2001 roku Drupal jest jednym z najlepszych dostępnych obecnie systemów zarządzania treścią. Kolejne wersje tego CMS-a zjednywały sobie rzesze nowych entuzjastów, a ostatnia z nich zasługuje na wyjątkową uwagę wszystkich - początkujących i zaawansowanych - twórców stron WWW. Drupal 7 odznacza się ogromną elastycznością, a ponadto oferuje swoim użytkownikom ponad 1500 modułów, pozwalających niezwykle precyzyjnie zaprojektować platformę zarządzania treścią i stworzyć mechanizmy sprawnego zarządzania serwisem. Książka "Drupal 7 w praktyce. Własna strona WWW w jeden dzień" pozwoli Ci zapoznać się z tym systemem, oswoić z jego założeniami i możliwościami oraz efektywnie wykorzystać jego potencjał do własnych celów. Jej autor poprowadzi Cię od zupełnych podstaw, przez proces przygotowań i instalacji systemu, po kwestie poświęcone budowaniu strony dla klienta bądź dla siebie. Ponadto skupi się na zagadnieniach dotyczących rozmaitych uprawnień użytkowników witryny, przenoszenia jej do internetu i dalszej rozbudowy serwisu. Jeśli interesuje Cię pełne spektrum możliwości Drupala 7 i chcesz zastosować je w praktyce, nie mogłeś trafić lepiej! Drupal i inne systemy zarządzania treścią Przygotowania do instalacji systemu Instalacja i pierwsze kroki Struktura i prezentacja treści Uprawnienia i administracja Przenosiny gotowej strony WWW do internetu Utrzymanie i rozbudowa serwisu Drupal 7 - Twoja przepustka do internetu!

Drupal 7. Wprowadzenie

R.J. Townsend

Cała wiedza niezbędna do szybkiego przygotowania dowolnego projektu w systemie Drupal, zawarta w jednej, przejrzyście napisanej książce! Jak skonfigurować serwer dla systemu Drupal przy użyciu programu cPanel? Jak budować zaawansowane witryny i aplikacje internetowe na platformie Drupal? Jak zwiększyć możliwości strony i poprawić jej pozycję w wyszukiwarkach? Dlaczego powinieneś wreszcie opanować system Drupal? To oczywiste - przy prostym w obsłudze, a oferującym ogromne możliwości interfejsie oraz niezwykle elastycznej architekturze pozwoli Ci on osiągnąć wszystko, czego oczekują Twoi najbardziej wymagający klienci: od prostych blogów i eleganckich witryn wizerunkowych po bardzo zaawansowane serwisy, zawierające narzędzia społecznościowe i rozbudowane aplikacje e-commerce. Pracując w Drupalu, wszelkie projekty zrealizujesz znacznie szybciej i bardziej profesjonalnie niż przy użyciu jakiegokolwiek innego popularnego CMS-a. Dzięki swojej sprytnej modułowej budowie, systemowi szablonów, skutecznym mechanizmom zabezpieczeń oraz edytorom WYSIWYG Drupal daje Ci wszelkie narzędzia potrzebne do szybkiego stworzenia w pełni funkcjonalnego i atrakcyjnie wyglądającego serwisu. W dodatku ta całkowicie darmowa platforma zarządzania treścią jest stale rozwijana przez liczną, zaangażowaną społeczność programistów na całym świecie. Teraz, kiedy już wiesz, ile możesz zyskać dzięki opanowaniu możliwości Drupala, jedyne, co Ci pozostaje, to sięgnąć po ten podręcznik. Znajdziesz tu całą wiedzę niezbędną do szybkiego i sprawnego stworzenia rozbudowanej witryny w Drupalu, nawet jeśli dotąd nie miałeś żadnego doświadczania z tym (ani żadnym innym) CMS-em. Naukę zaczniesz od wyboru i optymalnego skonfigurowania serwera, poznania zasad pracy z popularną aplikacją cPanel, instalacji systemu oraz opanowania jego interfejsu administracyjnego. Następnie przeczytasz o tworzeniu treści, dodawaniu elementów menu, definiowaniu strony głównej i przygotowywaniu efektownego wyglądu graficznego serwisu za pomocą motywu Fusion. Jednak przede wszystkim opanujesz tak istotne zagadnienia, jak techniki włączania i konfigurowania modułów rdzenia oraz wykorzystania przeszło pięćdziesięciu praktycznych modułów dodatkowych! Ta książka pomoże Ci: znacząco skrócić czas potrzebny na zbudowanie rozwiniętej aplikacji internetowej zrozumieć, jak działa system Drupal, i wyrobić sobie dobre nawyki, dzięki którym z łatwością zastosujesz go w każdym projekcie skonfigurować serwer, zarządzać wieloma witrynami i pracować w środowisku testowym, w którym działa aplikacja cPanel skonfigurować programy Photoshop i Illustrator oraz zaprojektować grafikę na potrzeby serwisów w systemie Drupal znaleźć odpowiedzi na pytania w najpopularniejszych źródłach zasobów systemu Drupal w sieci Idealny podręcznik dla początkujących - od przygotowania środowiska pracy po samodzielną realizację nawet najbardziej złożonych projektów!

Drupal 7. Zaawansowane programowanie

John K. VanDyk, Todd Tomlinson

Opanuj niesamowite możliwości tego CMS-a i twórz rozbudowane witryny oraz aplikacje internetowe! Poznaj architekturę Drupala i sposób jego działania Naucz się pracować z bazą danych i API formularzy Twórz własne moduły i rozszerzaj możliwości tego systemu Zobacz, jak optymalnie wykorzystać jQuery w Drupalu Drupal to nie tylko kolejny, nieco lepszy od innych CMS. Ten system zarządzania treścią zrobił ostatnio oszałamiającą karierę jako doskonały framework do tworzenia wszelkiej maści aplikacji internetowych. Dzięki niezwykłej łatwości i szybkości, z jaką Drupal pozwala programistom tworzyć rozbudowane blogi, profesjonalne witryny korporacyjne czy serwisy społecznościowe, zainteresowanie tą technologią zaczęło dynamicznie wzrastać. Co więcej, choć już dziś wydaje się, że sposoby wykorzystania tego CMS-a ogranicza jedynie ludzka wyobraźnia, system jest wciąż intensywnie rozwijany przez liczną społeczność entuzjastów na całym świecie. Możliwość czerpania z ogromnych zasobów wiedzy tysięcy programistów poprawi jakość Twoich nawet najbardziej wyrafinowanych internetowych projektów. Jeśli chcesz tworzyć nowoczesne, rozbudowane witryny internetowe z wykorzystaniem Drupala 7, właśnie znalazłeś idealny podręcznik dla siebie! Omówiono tu wszystko, co będzie Ci potrzebne, począwszy od podstawowych zagadnień, takich jak architektura i struktura plików systemu, przez sposoby wykorzystania API formularzy czy dodawania własnych modułów w celu rozszerzania możliwości, aż po metody tworzenia bezpiecznego, wydajnego kodu. Dowiesz się więcej na temat pracy z bazą danych, uruchomienia własnej strony wyszukiwarki oraz korzystania z jQuery w Drupalu. Nauczysz się także sprawnie optymalizować Drupal i przeprowadzać skuteczne testy oraz poznasz wiele innych praktycznych zagadnień, które sprawią, że bez trudu zrozumiesz zasady działania tego CMS-a oraz pokonasz wszelkie problemy napotykane w trakcie pracy. Z tej książki dowiesz się między innymi: jak działa Drupal i jaką ma architekturę jak tworzyć dodatkowe, funkcjonalne moduły jak pracować z bazą danych i API formularzy jak wygląda obsługa użytkowników, segmentów i pól jak przechowywać dane w sesjach jak zapewnić wyszukiwanie i indeksowanie informacji jak wykorzystać jQuery w Drupalu jak tworzyć czysty, bezpieczny kod jak optymalizować działanie Drupala jak przeprowadzić efektywny proces testowania Todd Tomlinson - przez piętnaście lat zajmował się projektowaniem, rozwijaniem, wdrażaniem i konserwacją zaawansowanych rozwiązań internetowych. Pracował m.in. w Oracle Corporation jako specjalista od opracowywania planów strategicznych pod kątem najlepszego wykorzystania możliwości Internetu. Todd uwielbia Drupal, który jest przez niego wykorzystywany jako główne narzędzie do tworzenia przyjemnych dla oka i funkcjonalnych witryn. Jest autorem książki "Drupal 7. Od podstaw". John K. VanDyk jest starszym architektem aplikacji webowych w Lullabot — firmie zajmującej się szkoleniami i konsultingiem Drupala. Wcześniej był analitykiem i adiunktem na Stanowym Uniwersytecie Naukowo-Technicznym w Iowa (USA). Na swoim koncie ma już jedną książkę na temat tego CMS-a: "Pro Drupal Development. Second Edition".

Drupal 8 Blueprints. Step along the creation of 7 professional-grade Drupal sites

Alex Burrows

Drupal is an open source content management framework that can be used for developing websites and simplifying online management of content for users.This book is a must-have for web developers who are looking to create professional-grade websites using Drupal 8. While building 7 different Drupal websites, we will focus on implementing the out of the box features that come with Drupal 8 and see how we can make some complex sites with minimal custom code. Focusing completely on Drupal 8, this book will help you leverage the new Drupal 8 features such as creating a different types and layouts of content using configuration to build in core with its built-in web services facilities, and effortless authoring using the new CKEditor with an effortless and efficient industry standard approach.The book starts with getting started with the development environment of Drupal. Each chapter will start with a brief overview of the site to be built and the required features. Then, we will proceed to create customized modules and themes and integrate third-party plugins. Lastly, you will learn about headless Drupal that uses RESTful services that would help you to display content outside of DrupalBy the end of the book, you will be able to implement the knowledge gained to build your own custom websites using Drupal 8.

Drupal 8 Configuration Management

Anja Schirwinski, Stefan Borchert

Drupal 8 Development Cookbook. Harness the power of Drupal 8 with this practical recipe-based guide - Second Edition

Matt Glaman

Began as a message board, Drupal today is open source software maintained and developed by a community of over 1,000,000 users and developers. Drupal is used by numerous local businesses to global corporations and diverse organizations all across the globe. With Drupal 8’s exciting features it brings, this book will be your go-to guide to experimenting with all of these features through helpful recipes.We’ll start by showing you how to customize and configure the Drupal environment as per your requirements, as well as how to install third-party libraries and then use them in the Drupal environment. Then we will move on to creating blocks and custom modules with the help of libraries. We will show you how to use the latest mobile-first feature of Drupal 8, which will help you make your apps responsive across all the major platforms. This book will also show you how to incorporate multilingual facilities in your sites, use web services and third-party plugins with your applications from inside Drupal 8, and test and deploy your apps.

Drupal 8: Enterprise Web Development. Build, manage, extend, and customize Drupal 8 websites

Matt Glaman, Richard Jones, Chaz Chumley, Nick Abbott

This Drupal 8 course takes you through the journey of building, extending, and customizing websites to build highly scalable and enterprise-ready websites.The first part—Learning Drupal 8—takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website. You will start with the basics, such as setting up a local “stack” development environment and installing your first Drupal 8 site, then we move on to image and media handling and extending Drupal modules. This section will help you get to grips with the modular nature of Drupal, and you’ll learn how to extend it by adding new functionalities to create your new modules. After learning to develop and manage a modern and responsive website using Drupal 8, you’ll start exploring different techniques to take advantage of the new Drupal 8 features. The next module—Drupal 8 Development Cookbook—is your go-to guide to experimenting with all of Drupal 8’s features through helpful recipes. You will explore techniques to customize and configure the Drupal environment, create blocks and custom modules, as well as make your web apps responsive by harnessing the mobile-first feature of Drupal 8. This module will also show you how to incorporate multilingual facilities in your sites, use web services and third-party plugins with your applications from inside Drupal 8, and test and deploy your apps. In the third part—Drupal 8 Theming with Twig—you will master Drupal 8’s new Twig templating engine to customize the look and feel of your website. This section will walk you through a real-world project to create a Twig theme from concept to completion while adopting best practices to implement CSS frameworks and JavaScript libraries. You will see just how quick and easy it is to create beautiful, responsive Drupal 8 websites while avoiding the common mistakes that many front-end developers make. By the end, you will have learned how to develop, manage, extend, and customize an enterprise-level website.This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: • Learning Drupal 8 by Nick Abbott and Richard Jones • Drupal 8 Development Cookbook by Matt Glaman• Drupal 8 Theming with Twig by Chaz Chumley

Drupal 8 Module Development. Build and customize Drupal 8 modules and extensions efficiently

Daniel Sipos

Drupal is an open source web-based content management system (CMS) that can be used for building anything from simple websites to complex applications. It enables individuals and organizations to build platforms that engage users and deliver the right content at the right time.Drupal 8 is an exciting new development in the Drupal community. However, the differences from the previous version are substantial and this can put quite some pressure on Drupal 7 developers that need to catch up. This book aims to help such developers in getting up to speed with Drupal 8 module development. The book first introduces you to the Drupal 8 architecture and its subsystems before diving into creating your first module with basic functionality. Building upon that, you will cover many core APIs and functionalities available to module developers.You will work with the Drupal logging and mailing systems, learn how to output data using the theme layer and work with menus and links programmatically. Then, you will learn how to work with different kinds of data storages, create custom entities, field types and leverage the Database API for lower level database queries. Moreover, you will learn about the Drupal 8 access system and caching layer as well as the APIs used for data processing (queues and batches).You will further see how to introduce javascript into your module, work with the various file systems and ensure the code you write works on multilingual sites. Finally, you will learn how to programmatically work with Views, write automated tests for your functionality and also write secure code in general.By the end of the book, you will have learned how to develop your own custom module from scratch that can help solve a small problem or even provide complex functionality. And who knows, maybe you’ll even contribute it back to the Drupal community.

Drupal 8 Module Development. Build modules and themes using the latest version of Drupal 8 - Second Edition

Daniel Sipos

Drupal 8 comes with a release cycle that allows for new functionality to be added at a much faster pace. However, this also means code deprecations and changing architecture that you need to stay on top of. This book updates the first edition and includes the new functionality introduced in versions up to, and including 8.7.The book will first introduce you to the Drupal 8 architecture and its subsystems before diving into creating your first module with basic functionality. You will work with the Drupal logging and mailing systems, learn how to output data using the theme layer and work with menus and links programmatically. Then, you will learn how to work with different kinds of data storages, create custom entities, field types and leverage the Database API for lower level database queries. You will further see how to introduce JavaScript into your module, work with the various file systems and ensure the code you write works on multilingual sites. Finally, you will learn how to programmatically work with Views, write automated tests for your functionality and also write secure code in general.By the end, you will have learned how to develop your own custom module that can provide complex business solutions. And who knows, maybe you’ll even contribute it back to the Drupal community.Foreword by Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal.

Drupal 8 Quick Start Guide. Get up and running with Drupal 8

J. Ayen Green

Drupal is a powerful content management platform, ?exible enough to accommodate almost any content requirements. This ?exibility comes with a cost: complexity. Drupal 8 Quick Start Guide will clear your path from installation to a building usable site in minutes, and to a customized site in one sitting.You will begin with installation of Drupal and going through the main sections of the Drupal UI. Then, you will create a content type that describes its content, which simplifies the act of creating and editing the actual content later. You will learn about user roles, using real-world examples. This will help you to learn how to design roles, and how to assign appropriate permissions to them. Next, you will learn to use the WYSIWYG editor, configure it for other roles, navigate the various fields on the content creation form, and publish content.To begin to appreciate the ?exibility and expandability of Drupal, you will make use of popular content-focused modules that extend Drupal's power. You will learn how to expand your market to other readers directly and through other sites by configuring content and UI translations and creating a View that provides an RSS feed. Finally, you will put everything together by customizing the home page for your new website.

Drupal 8 Theming with Twig. Master Drupal 8’s new Twig templating engine to create fun and fast websites with simple steps to help you move from concept to completion

Chaz Chumley

Drupal 8 is an open source content management system and powerful framework that helps deliver great websites to individuals and organizations, including non-profits, commercial, and government around the globe. This new release has been built on top of object-oriented PHP and includes more than a handful of improvements such as a better user experience, cleaner HTML5 markup, a new templating engine called Twig, multilingual capabilities, new configuration management, and effortless content authoring. Drupal 8 will quickly become the new standard for deploying content to both the web and mobile applications. However, with so many new changes, it can quickly become overwhelming knowing where to start and how to quickly.Starting from the bottom up, we will install, set up, and configure Drupal 8. We’ll navigate the Admin interface so you can learn how to work with core themes and create new custom block layouts. Walk through a real-world project to create a Twig theme from concept to completion while adopting best practices to implement CSS frameworks and JavaScript libraries. We will see just how quick and easy it is to create beautiful, responsive Drupal 8 websites while avoiding the common mistakes that many front-end developers make.

Drupal 9 Module Development. Get up and running with building powerful Drupal modules and applications - Third Edition

Daniel Sipos, Antonio De Marco

With its latest release, Drupal 9, the popular open source CMS platform has been updated with new functionalities for building complex Drupal apps with ease. This third edition of the Drupal Module Development guide covers these new Drupal features, helping you to stay on top of code deprecations and the changing architecture with every release.The book starts by introducing you to the Drupal 9 architecture and its subsystems before showing you how to create your first module with basic functionality. You’ll explore the Drupal logging and mailing systems, learn how to output data using the theme layer, and work with menus and links programmatically. Once you’ve understood the different kinds of data storage, this Drupal guide will demonstrate how to create custom entities and field types and leverage the Database API for lower-level database queries. You’ll also learn how to introduce JavaScript into your module, work with various file systems, and ensure that your code works on multilingual sites. Finally, you’ll work with Views, create automated tests for your functionality, and write secure code.By the end of the book, you’ll have learned how to develop custom modules that can provide solutions to complex business problems, and who knows, maybe you’ll even contribute to the Drupal community!

Drupal for Education and E-Learning -. You don't need to be a techie to build a community-based website for your school. With this guide to Drupal you'll be able to create an online learning and sharing space for your students and colleagues, quickly and easily. - Second Edition

Bill Fitzgerald, James G. Robertson, Dries Buytaert

As social networks become more popular, their role in the classroom has come under scrutiny. Drupal offers a wide variety of useful tools for educators. Within a single Drupal site, you can set up social bookmarking, podcasting, video hosting, formal and informal groups, rich user profiles, and other features commonly associated with social web communities. Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition teaches you how to create your own social networking site to advance teaching and learning goals in the classroom, while giving you complete control over features and access. Communicate with students, share learning resources, and track assignments through simple tasks with this hands-on guide.In this book you will learn to install and configure the default Drupal distribution and then extend it to include blogs, bookmarks, a media sharing platform, and discussion forums.The book also covers how to organize your site to easily track student work on the site, and how to control who has access to that information. Additionally, it teaches you how to make the site easy to use, how to maintain the site, and how to ask for and receive help in the Drupal community.