Definitive Guide to Drupal 7

The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 (Apress) is Apress’ definitive guide to the open source content management system/development framework, covering topics from module development to theme creation, and everything in between.

Chapter list for Definitive Guide to Drupal 7

There’s a full chapter list, replicated below, on the publisher’s website:

1. Building a Drupal 7 Site
2. Essential Tools: Drush and Git
3. Building Dynamic Pages Using Views
4. There’s a Module for That
5. Creating Community Web Sites with Organic Groups
6. Security in Drupal
7. Updating Drupal
8. Extending Your Site
9. Drupal Community: Getting Help and Getting Involved
10. Planning and Managing a Drupal Project
11. Documenting for End Users and the Production Team
12. Development Environment
13. Putting a Site Online and Deploying New Features
14. Developing from a Human Mindset
15. Theming
16. Advanced Theming
17. jQuery
18. Introduction to Module Development
19. Using Drupal’s APIs in a Module
20. Refining Your Module
21. Porting Modules to Drupal 7
22. Writing Project-Specific Code
23. Introduction to Functional Testing with Simpletest
24. Writing a Major Module
25. Drupal Commerce
26. Drush
27. Scaling Drupal
28. Spice Your Content Up with Tasty Semantics
29. The Menu System and the Path Into Drupal
30. Under the Hood: Inside Drupal When It Displays a Page
31. Search and Apache Solr Integration
32. User Experience
33. Completing a Site: The Other 90%
34. Drupal Distributions and Installation Profiles
35. Drupal’s Story: A Chain of Many Unexpected Events
36. Now You’re in Business: Making a Living with Drupal
37. Maintaining a Project
38. Contributing to the Community
39. Appendix A: Updating a Drupal Site from 6 to 7
40. Appendix B: Profiling Drupal and Optimizing Performance
41. Appendix C: Page Rendering and Altering
42. Appendix D: Visual Design in Drupal
43. Appendix E: Accessibility
44. Appendix F: Windows Development Environment
45. Appendix G: Installing Drupal on Ubuntu
46. Appendix H: Mac OS X Installation
47. Appendix I: Setting Up a Drupal Environment with the Acquia Dev Desktop

About Richard Carter

Richard Carter is a seasoned web designer and frontend web developer based in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East of England. He frequently acts as a technical reviewer on both open source and theming-related topics.