Drupal 7 Business Solutions电子书

Drupal 7 Business Solutions

Table of Contents

Drupal 7 Business Solutions

Credits

About the Authors

Acknowledgment

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Planning our Site and Setting up Drupal

Artisan Bakers Collective

Plans for the Artisan Bakers Collective website

Selecting a foundation for the Artisan Bakers Collective site

Simple static web pages

Key advantages

Key disadvantages

Fully-customized site with PHP and MySQL

Key advantages

Key disadvantages

Drupal content management system

Benefits of building with Drupal

Disadvantages of Drupal

Deciding on Drupal

Getting started with Drupal

Artisan Bakers Collective on the web

Summary

2. Creating the Artisan Bakers Collective Website

The Core Drupal 7 look and feel

Checking the site's status report

Cron

Clean URLs

Drupal core content—basic pages and articles

Adding a Basic page

Editing a page

Security considerations

Adding users

Street presence, setting up the home page

Blog style home pages

Tags

Adding images to your content

URL path settings

Using path aliases

Creating multiple aliases for a page

Automatically creating page aliases

Publishing options

Creating a traditional home page

Deleting a page

Getting around—setting up navigation

Building menus

Types of menus

Adding a page to a menu

Setting the order of menu items

Enabling core modules and installing contributed modules

Installing contributed modules

Installing the Menu Block module

Using the Menu Block module

Summary

3. Adding Products and Services

Building a custom content type

Introduction to content types

Goal

Designing the menu item

Goal

Steps

Step 1: Determining how the content type will be used

Step 2: Determining what fields need to be included

Step 3: Determining what type each field should use, and what validation should be done

Step 4: Determine who will be viewing and editing the content type

Creating the content type

Goal

Steps

Adding a price to the menu item

Goal

Steps

Adding ingredients, dietary concerns and meals fields

Goal

Steps

Adding seasonal information to the menu item

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Adding an image

Goal

Steps

Alternative solutions

Controlling access to the content type

Goal

Steps

Using taxonomy to categorize content

Create a vocabulary for Type of Baked Good

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Adding terms to the vocabulary

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Adding the Term reference field

Goal

Steps

Adding content with the content type

Creating a new Breads and Pastries item

Goal

Steps

Customizing the display of the content type nodes

Modifying the order of fields and the display of the field labels

Goal

Steps

Summary

4. Interacting with Customers and Visitors

Working with users

Allowing user registration

Goal

Steps

Extending the user signup form

Create a VIP role

Goal

Steps

Assign users to the VIP role

Goal

Steps

Working with comments

Enable comments for a content type and node

Goal

Adding new comments

Goal

Steps

Manage comments

Goal

Steps

Notification of new user comments on site

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps for creating the e-mail action

Steps for creating the new comments trigger

Set up user ratings for content

Add Fivestar content ratings to a node

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Adding a rate this node block

Goal

Steps

Change the display of the ratings

Goal

Steps

Working with polls

Create a poll

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Adding the poll to the home page

Goal

Steps

Submitting a poll

Goal

Steps

Viewing poll results

Goal

Steps

Adding user surveys

Creating a user survey

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Protecting the survey with Captchas

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Answering a survey

Goal

Steps

Viewing survey results

Goal

Submissions view

Analysis view

Table view

Download view

Clear

Summary

5. Creating a Company Blog

Creating blogs

Setting up the blog system

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Adding a new blog post

Goal

Steps

Adding moderation for blog posts

Goal

Additional modules needed

Creating the moderator role

Setting up moderation for the blog posts

Automatically moderating content based on keywords

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Enabling customers to read your blogs

Displaying a list of available blogs

Goal

Additional modules needed

Creating a blog menu

Creating a blog block

Creating an RSS feed for newsreaders

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Adding subscription buttons

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Including information from other blogs

Allowing your site to read content

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Viewing feeds

Goal

Steps

Automatically updating your feeds with cron jobs

Goal

Steps

Additional ways of setting up cron

Summary

6. Newsletters and Calendars

Creating newsletters

Creating a newsletter category

Goal

Additional modules needed:

Steps

Viewing your newsletter categories

Adding newsletters

Simplenews module settings

General and newsletter configuration

Subscription and Send mail configuration

Creating a new issue of the newsletter

Goal

Steps

Allowing users to sign up for the newsletter

Goal

Steps

Managing sign ups

Goal

Steps

Importing and exporting subscriptions

Goal

Steps

Adding a calendar

Tweaking our date and time settings

Goal

Additional modul

Steps

Adding an event content type and custom date/time field

Goal

Steps

Adding events to the site

Goal

Steps

Displaying events on a calendar

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Summary

7. Sharing and Consuming with YouTube, Flickr, Google Maps, and Twitter

Integrating your site with other web content

Online baking class

Embedding a YouTube video with a filter

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Creating a YouTube playlist and display a random video

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Flickr integration: Another alternative for images and slideshows

Embedding media from Flickr

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Using the Flickr module to insert photos using a filter

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Flickr module blocks

Posting your site's content to Twitter

Twitter when you post

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Posting to Twitter

Summary

8. Freebies and Downloads

Adding downloads and PDFs to the website

Controlling how files are downloaded

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Allowing files to be uploaded to the website

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Configuring files for secure private download

Sending the correct file types to a user

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Forcing a file to be downloaded

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Configuring Printer-friendly pages in Drupal

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Automatically generating PDF files for a page

Goal

Steps

Summary

9. Online Orders and Payments

The Drupal Commerce module

Goal

Additional modules needed

Download and install Commerce

Setting up your Store with Commerce

Adding a content type in Drupal to display our Commerce product types

Adding Products using Commerce

Checking on orders as the site administrator

Commerce Store Configuration

Summary

10. Image Galleries and Slideshows

Using Views to build image galleries

Installing and Configuring the Views module

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Add some photos

Configuring Imagecache

Configuring Image Galleries with Views

Setting up slideshows with Lightbox and Views

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

General settings

Slideshow settings

HTML content settings

Automatic image handling settings

Adding a Lightbox slideshow to our Photo gallery

Additional topics

Summary

11. Maintaining and Optimizing your Drupal Site

Website backups

Manually backing up a site

Goal

Steps

Setting up automatic MySQL backups

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Restoring a site from a backup

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Optimizing your Drupal site and its database

Optimizing the database tables

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Using caching to improve performance

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Creating content workflows and revisions

Creating content revisions

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Comparing content revisions

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Upgrading to new versions of Drupal

Checking for new updates to Drupal and modules

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Upgrading Drupal contributed modules

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Upgrading to a new major or minor release of Drupal core

Goal

Additional modules needed

Steps

Summary

Index