Site builders

Details from Packtpub.com:

Overview

• Stop clicking around administration pages and start issuing commands straight to your Drupal sites.
• Write your own commands, hook in to alter existing ones and extend the toolkit with a long list of contributed modules.
• A practical guide full of examples and step-by-step instructions to start using Drush right from Chapter 1.

Use the hashtag #PacktDrush on Twitter to discuss the book with the author, fellow readers, and Packt.

What you will learn from this book

• Learn how to install Drush on different systems, and download and install a full Drupal site in seconds.
• Understand Drush’s command structure with options and arguments.
• Discover how to set a site to maintenance mode and other common settings with just one command.
• Back up and restore code, files and databases into one file.
• Learn to write your own Drush commands and name sites by aliases for even shorter commands.
• Manage modules and users, monitor messages and run automated tests.

In Detail

Drush is a command line interface for Drupal. Most of the tasks for building and maintaining a website are repetitive and involve filling in forms on administration pages. The majority of these tasks can be achieved with a single Drush command, shortening the development and maintenance time of a project drastically.

Drush User’s Guide will allow you to be more productive and efficient in building and maintaining your Drupal sites through the command line. You will learn to install Drush on different platforms, and manage and configure your Drupal site by learning how to use and create Drush commands.

Become a Drush expert by exploring its command toolkit; customizing it to suit your needs, and extending it with contributed modules.

The command line will allow you to download, enable and upgrade Drupal projects in seconds. Back up your files, code and data in one single file, clear the cache, interact with databases, and deploy sites to remote machines – all using simply the command line. Use Drush with your own commands or alter existing ones; and extend the toolkit with a long list of contributed modules.

Drush User’s guide has everything you need to extend your use of the command line to easily build and manage your Drupal sites.

Approach

A practical guide full of examples and step-by-step instructions to start using Drush right from chapter 1.

Who this book is for

Drupal developers or themers who understand Drupal administration’s basic concepts. Drush can make building any kind of website quicker and easier, no matter if it is a development environment, beta, a simple blog or a complex system.

Details from Packtpub.com:

Overview

• A hands-on, example-driven guide to programming Drupal websites
• Discover a number of new features for Drupal 7 through practical and interesting examples while building a fully functional recipe sharing website
• Learn about web content management, multi-media integration, and e-commerce in Drupal 7

What you will learn from this book

• Build cutting edge websites with Drupal 7
• Discover important concepts for HTML5 and why it’s time to start building websites with HTML5, if you haven’t already
• Learn important patterns for JavaScript and AJAX in Drupal 7
• Realize interesting ways to integrate multi-media with Drupal 7
• Find out how becoming more involved with the Drupal development community can help you build better websites
• Set up a development environment, and learn to use Git and Drush
• Learn how to do e-commerce with Drupal 7
• Uncover how much fun it can be to build websites with Drupal 7

In Detail

Drupal is a powerful PHP content management system that allows you to build a wide variety of websites. By combining the power of HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS, you can develop and customize a fully-functional, world-class website. This book also covers some important changes from Drupal 6 to version 7, so even experienced Drupal users will find this straightforward guide useful.

Drupal 7 Development by Example Beginner’s Guide has numerous code examples that will not only introduce new Drupal 7 development concepts, but will give you the skills needed to build a world-class Drupal website. By following the development of a recipe-sharing, e-commerce site, you will quickly and easily get your own Drupal site up and running.

Starting from a solid Drupal 7development environment, this book will show you how to extend Drupal with front- end code using Ajax, jQuery, and server side PHP. In addition to learning how to integrate HTML5, the book will cover responsive web design, and cutting edge CSS3. Using the example of an e-commerce and social networking site, this book will develop your Drupal programming skills so that you will be capable of developing advanced code good enough to be shared with the Drupal community.

Approach

As part of Packt’s Beginner’s Guide series, this book will walk the reader through straightforward examples that show the creation of an e-commerce site built on Drupal.

Who this book is for

This book is for people who have some experience building websites and who want to learn to do so with Drupal 7. You should have experience with HTML markup, CSS, and jQuery. Experience with previous versions of Drupal would be helpful, but is not necessary.

Details from Packtpub.com:

Overview

• Build feature-rich Webforms that inspire awe and amazement from the comfort of your web browser
• Invoke your creative engine with stunning modules that extend an already comprehensive module– even create your own extensions
• Explore every known nook and cranny of Webform in detailed byte-sized steps, including handling common pitfalls and caveats

The Drupal Content Management System puts everyone in charge of their own internet destiny. Webform takes this power a step further by ensuring that you are never more than just a few mouse-clicks away from fully functional information-gathering forms. From simple contact forms to advanced web applications, Webform provides a solid tool set for both the novice and the expert.

Drupal 7 Webform Cookbook gives you everything you need to achieve in minutes what previously cost hours in development and testing. Practical demonstrations of every facet give both the technical and the not-so-technical users an in-depth understanding of how things work.

Install. Use. Customize. Extend. A mammoth learning curve devoured in small bytes: all digestible, with no choking.

From designing coherent forms, to sending pretty HTML emails and managing data, explore the rich scope of possibilities that Webform enables. Also, easily extend and tune Webform with custom components and functionality.

With Drupal 7 Webform Cookbook you are placed firmly in the driving seat.

What you will learn from this book

• Astonish your friends and impress your clients by your ability to create robust, professional forms in minutes
• Make your own re-usable select options lists
• Change the way your form components appear on screen using theming or coding
• Tweak Webform behaviour to suit almost any context
• Construct forms with dynamic content as dictated by user input
• Automatically send customized emails to various recipients

In Detail

The Drupal Content Management System puts everyone in charge of their own internet destiny. Webform takes this power a step further by ensuring that you are never more than just a few mouse-clicks away from fully functional information-gathering forms. From simple contact forms to advanced web applications, Webform provides a solid tool set for both the novice and the expert.

Drupal 7 Webform Cookbook gives you everything you need to achieve in minutes what previously cost hours in development and testing. Practical demonstrations of every facet give both the technical and the not-so-technical users an in-depth understanding of how things work.

Install. Use. Customize. Extend. A mammoth learning curve devoured in small bytes: all digestible, with no choking.

From designing coherent forms, to sending pretty HTML emails and managing data, explore the rich scope of possibilities that Webform enables. Also, easily extend and tune Webform with custom components and functionality.

With Drupal 7 Webform Cookbook you are placed firmly in the driving seat.

Approach

With detailed step-by-step instructions and the required screenshots, this Cookbook guides you in learning all that you wanted to know about Drupal Webform.

Who this book is for

Written as a guide for internet users and developers alike, the Drupal 7 Webform Cookbook gives you the tools needed to turn your Drupal website into an information-gathering superhighway. Basic knowledge of Drupal is required.