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Pro Drupal Development

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  • This second edition covers Drupal 6, the first book to cover the latest version of Drupal

  • Only book to cover Drupal internals and customization in detail

  • Written by a Drupal core developer

  • Common pitfalls identified and addressed

  • Foreword by Dries Buytaert, Drupal Founder

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiii
  2. How Drupal Works

    • John K. VanDyk
    Pages 1-11
  3. Writing a Module

    • John K. VanDyk
    Pages 13-34
  4. Hooks, Actions, and Triggers

    • John K. VanDyk
    Pages 35-58
  5. The Menu System

    • John K. VanDyk
    Pages 59-88
  6. Working with Databases

    • John K. VanDyk
    Pages 89-114
  7. Working with Users

    • John K. VanDyk
    Pages 115-136
  8. Working with Nodes

    • John K. VanDyk
    Pages 137-163
  9. The Theme System

    • John K. VanDyk
    Pages 165-201
  10. Working with Blocks

    • John K. VanDyk
    Pages 203-219
  11. The form API

    • John K. VanDyk
    Pages 221-273
  12. Manipulating User Input: The Filter System

    • John K. VanDyk
    Pages 275-289
  13. Searching and Indexing Content

    • John K. VanDyk
    Pages 291-308
  14. Working with Files

    • John K. VanDyk
    Pages 309-326
  15. Working with Taxonomy

    • John K. VanDyk
    Pages 327-348
  16. Caching

    • John K. VanDyk
    Pages 349-364
  17. Sessions

    • John K. VanDyk
    Pages 365-375
  18. Using jQuery

    • John K. VanDyk
    Pages 377-405
  19. Localization and Translation

    • John K. VanDyk
    Pages 407-438
  20. XML-RPC

    • John K. VanDyk
    Pages 439-451

About this book

Widely praised for its in–depth coverage of Drupal internals, bestselling Pro Drupal Development has been updated for Drupal 6 in this edition, and provides are even more tricks of the trade to help you further yourself as a professional Drupal developer.

Assuming you already know how to install and bring a standard installation online, John K. VanDyk gives you everything else you need to customize your Drupal installation however you see fit. Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition delves deep into Drupal internals, showing you how to take full advantage of its powerful architecture.

About the author

John K. VanDyk has been a Drupal developer since 2004. In 2005, he organized the first Drupal conference in Antwerp, Belgium, with Drupal founder Dries Buytaert. John has contributed several modules to Drupal including the actions, workflow, publish, subscribe, and pubcookie modules and has been instrumental in the design of Drupal's Content Construction Kit. John's day job is as an entomology professor and systems analyst at Iowa State University, where he teaches undergraduate courses about insects. In his spare time, when not hacking on Drupal, John enjoys squash hunting and raising children.

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