Last updated July 21, 2010. Created by NonProfit on February 13, 2007.
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Tips on using the documentation handbooks:
Searching the Documentation handbooks: enter your search term in the Drupal search box and click Search. On the results page, click "Book page" in the "Filter by type" right-hand menu to limit your search results to those in the documentation only.
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Tip on searching
What you want is almost always here somewhere, but what you would call it is not necessarily what others would. This can be particularly true if you're not a professional programmer, because they tend to use words the rest of us just don't know.
When I'm looking for an answer to how something is accomplished, the first thing to do is find out what it's actually called. For instance if you want to create a relationship between two bits of data, the keyword "join" is helpful as this is what does the magic in SQL.