Containing over 50 'recipes' for Views 3 on Drupal 7, this 'cookbook' is available for ordering from Packt Publishing. If you are interested in reviewing the book, please contact Vishal Tiwari (vishalt@packtpub.com), as he has limited free e-book copies available for reviewers.
The Drupal content management system is purposely created with a ‘light footprint,’ leaving it to the user or developer to add wanted features. Views is the #1 add-on module for Drupal and enables you to filter, select and present your content in ways that are more meaningful to your site visitors.
Drupal 7 Views Cookbook allows you to bypass most of the Views learning curve and quickly take advantage of the capabilities of the Views module through step-by-step instructions for quickly developing dozens of useful views.
Starting with a brief introduction to Views, Drupal 7 Views Cookbook takes you through recipes for elementary views such as displaying randomly selected content, to intermediate views such as customizing links, to advanced views using multiple displays. Along the way there are recipes for theming views, creating a programmatic view and a view handler, administering views, and finally, using some other modules related to the Views module. Recipes are standalone, so pick them in any order!
What you will learn from this book
- Present menu choices for categorized subsets of your content
- Create blocks containing interesting lists or randomly selected images
- Link multiple content types to provide more complete information
- Display complementary content in additional displays
- Design a desktop-like page driven by user input
- Deliver a view from inside a custom module
- Manipulate the templates to add pizzazz to your views
- Administer your views with confidence
Don’t limit your site with dull content presentation. Empower your site visitors with the recipes that Drupal 7 Views Cookbook delivers!
