Drupal 7 First Look电子书

Drupal 7 First Look

Table of Contents

Drupal 7 First Look

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. What's New In Drupal 7?

Goals of Drupal 7

Key new features in Drupal 7

Improved installation

New administration toolbar and overlay administration

Improved interface for creating content

Improved interface for creating new content types

New Field API

Additional support for files and images

Improved filter system

Added context information to messages during translation

Built-in automated cron functionality

Improved security

Added a new plugin manager

Added the Seven theme for administration

Added the jQuery UI to core

Allows additional preprocessing of themed information

Added the New Stark theme

Rewritten database layer (DBTNG)

Improved node access system

Added the Queue API for long-running tasks

Added a new test framework

RDF capabilities

Unmet goals

Key changes to Drupal 7

Removed functionality

Contributed modules

Minimum requirements for Drupal 7

Summary

2. Installation and Upgrades

Installing Drupal 7

Obtaining Drupal

Selecting an installation profile

Minimal profile

Standard profile

Language selection

Requirements check

Database configuration

Configure site

New home page

Command-line installation

Upgrading from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7

Creating custom installation profiles

Components of an installation profile

The .info file

The .profile file

The .install file

File structure

Block creation

Node type definition

Additional default settings

Setting up permissions and roles

Theme configuration

Summary

3. Site Building with Drupal 7

Creating content

Selecting a content type to create

Content UI

Creating node summaries

Formatting text

Additional node properties

Creating new content types with custom fields

Creating a custom content type

Additional content type properties

Display settings

Comment settings

Menu settings

Field API

Boolean fields

Numeric fields (Decimal, Float, and Integer)

File fields

Term Reference fields

Text fields

Text field

Long text field

Long text and summary field

Field display

Taxonomy changes

Image styles

Comment changes

Removed functionality

Summary

4. Drupal 7 Administration

New administration interface

Administration toolbar

Dashboard

Overlay window

Appearance section

Installing and updating themes and modules

Installing new themes and modules

Updating themes and modules

People section

Modules section

Configuration section

Configuring settings

Regional and language

Regional settings

Date and time

Language

Translate interface

Search and metadata

Clean URLs

Search settings

URL aliases

Development

Logging and errors

Maintenance mode

Performance

Testing

Media section

File system

Image styles

Image toolkit

System section

Site information

Actions

Shortcuts

Statistics

People and permissions section

Account settings

Roles

Permissions

IP address blocking

Profiles

Web Services section

Feed aggregator

RSS publishing

Content Authoring section

Text formats

Shortcuts

Edit Anywhere

Configuring Date and Time display

User management

Account settings

User fields

Password strength meter

Login rate limitations

Search

Changes to the cron system

Protection from unauthorized access

Reports

Field list report

Summary

5. Drupal 7 for Themers

Template changes

Everything there is to know about .info files

html.tpl.php

Rendering the entire page with page.tpl.php

Theming individual regions with region.tpl.php

Theming individual nodes with node.tpl.php

template.php

Other changes

New JavaScript functionality

jQuery tools

AJAX framework from CTools

Including other JavaScript libraries

CSS changes

System classes

Classes array

Hiding information

Theme API changes

Signature changes

Alter hooks

New methods

template_preprocess_menu_tree(&$variables)

template_preprocess_username(&$variables)

template_process_username(&$variables)

theme_admin_block($variables)

theme_confirm_form($variables)

theme_container($variables)

theme_dashboard($variables)

theme_dashboard_admin($variables)

theme_dashboard_disabled_block($variables)

theme_dashboard_disabled_blocks($variables)

theme_dashboard_region($variables)

theme_filter_guidelines($variables)

theme_form_element_label($variables)

theme_form_required_marker($variables)

theme_forum_form($variables)

theme_html_tag($variables)

theme_image_anchor($variables)

theme_image_crop_summary($variables)

theme_image_resize_summary($variables)

theme_image_rotate_summary($variables)

theme_image_scale_summary($variables)

theme_image_style_effects($variables)

theme_image_style_list($variables)

theme_image_style_preview($variables)

theme_link($variables)

theme_locale_date_format_form($variables)

theme_locale_languages_configure_form($variables)

theme_locale_translation_filters($variables)

theme_menu_link(array $variables)

theme_menu_local_action($variables)

theme_rdf_metadata($variables)

theme_rdf_template_variable_wrapper($variables)

theme_shortcut_set_customize($variables)

theme_system_compact_link()

theme_system_date_time_settings($variables)

theme_system_modules_fieldset($variables)

theme_system_modules_incompatible($variables)

theme_system_run_cron_image($variables)

theme_system_settings_form($variables)

theme_system_themes_page($variables)

theme_text_format_wrapper($variables)

theme_update_last_check($variables)

theme_update_manager_update_form($variables)

theme_user_admin_permissions($variables)

theme_vertical_tabs($variables)

Removed methods

Upgrading Drupal 6 themes to Drupal 7

Summary

6. Drupal 7 Database Changes

What is DBTNG?

Background

Key concepts in DBTNG

Drivers

Connections

Statements

Queries

Using select statements

Static queries

Limiting the data returned

Adding parameters to static queries

Query options

Saving query results to a temporary table

Dynamic queries

Working with fields

Ordering results

Joining tables

Preventing duplicate records

Retrieving summary information

Using expressions to retrieve and manipulate data

Limiting the data returned

Dynamic query extensions

Paging records

Sorting data

Custom extensions

Adding conditions to a query

Condition method

Where method

Chaining conditions

Working with result sets

fetch and fetchAll

fetchObject

fetchAssoc

fetchAllAssoc

fetchField

fetchAllKeyed

fetchCol

Direct iteration

Tagging queries

insert statement syntax

Inserting single records

Inserting multiple records

Inserting records from another query

Delayed inserts

update statement syntax

merge statement syntax

delete statement syntax

truncate statement syntax

Transaction support

Master/slave replication

SQLite support

Summary

7. Drupal 7 for Developers

.info file changes

Drupal hook changes

Hooks split by op code

Other changed hooks

hook_load

hook_system_info_alter

hook_view

New hooks

hook_admin_paths

hook_admin_paths_alter

hook_archiver_info

hook_css_alter

hook_dashboard_regions

hook_dashboard_regions_alter

hook_date_formats

hook_date_formats_alter

hook_date_format_types

hook_drupal_goto_alter

hook_library

hook_library_alter

hook_modules_disabled

hook_modules_enabled

hook_modules_installed

hook_modules_uninstalled

hook_openid

hook_openid_response

hook_path_delete

hook_path_insert

hook_path_update

hook_registry_files_alter

hook_overlay_child_initialize

hook_overlay_parent_initialize

hook_shortcut_default_set

hook_system_info_alter

hook_url_inbound_alter

hook_url_outbound_alter

hook_username_alter

hook_xmlrpc_alter

module_hook_info

Removed methods

Menu system changes

New hooks

hook_menu_active_handler_alter

hook_menu_contextual_links_alter

hook_menu_delete

hook_menu_insert

hook_menu_local_tasks_alter

hook_menu_update

New methods

Changed methods

menu_execute_active_handler

menu_get_names

menu_local_tasks

menu_router_build

menu_tree_all_data

menu_tree_data

menu_tree_page_data

Removed methods

Form API changes

New Form API hooks

hook_element_info

hook_element_info_alter

hook_form_system_theme_settings_alter

hook_node_prepare

Changed methods

form_type parameter renamed

drupal_rebuild_form

drupal_redirect_form

form_builder

form_set_error

form_type_image_button_value

New methods

Removed methods

File handling system

New file hooks

hook_file_copy

hook_file_delete

hook_file_insert

hook_file_load

hook_file_mimetype_mapping_alter

hook_file_move

hook_file_references

hook_file_update

hook_file_url_alter

hook_file_validate

Changed hooks

New and changed methods

PHP method wrappers

File IO

File information

Stream wrapper implementations

URI and URL handling

.htaccess file protection

Removed methods

Field API

Entities

Field types

Field instances

Field bundles

Displaying fields in forms with field widgets

Displaying field data

Saving, retrieving, and deleting field data

Getting information about fields

Node access and permission changes

Added methods

hook_node_access

hook_node_access_records_alter

hook_node_grants_alter

hook_user_cancel

hook_user_cancel_methods_alter

hook_user_role_delete, hook_user_role_insert, and hook_user_role_update

node_list_permissions

node_permissions_get_configured_types

user_role_permissions

user_role_grant_permissions, user_role_change_permissions, and user_role_revoke_permissions

Changed methods

Text filter changes

hook_filter_format_delete

hook_filter_format_insert

hook_filter_format_update

hook_filter_info

hook_filter_info_alter

Removed methods

Taxonomy changes

hook_taxonomy_term_delete

hook_taxonomy_term_insert

hook_taxonomy_term_load

hook_taxonomy_term_update

hook_taxonomy_vocabulary_delete

hook_taxonomy_vocabulary_insert

hook_taxonomy_vocabulary_load

hook_taxonomy_vocabulary_update

Removed methods

Searching changes

Added methods

hook_search_access

hook_search_admin

hook_search_execute

hook_search_info

hook_search_reset

hook_search_status

hook_node_search_result

hook_node_update_index

hook_ranking

Changed methods

Removed methods

Cron changes

hook_cron_queue_info

Tokens

hook_tokens

hook_token_info

hook_token_info_alter

token_info

Image handling

hook_image_default_styles

hook_image_styles_alter

hook_image_style_delete

hook_image_style_flush

hook_image_style_save

hook_image_effect_info

hook_image_toolkits

Trigger changes

RDF API

Translation API changes

hook_language_fallback_candidates_alter

hook_language_negotiation_info

hook_language_negotiation_info_alter

hook_language_switch_links_alter

hook_language_types_info

hook_language_types_info_alter

hook_multilingual_settings_changed

hook_node_prepare_translation

Coder module

Testing framework

Setting up SimpleTest

Running tests

Creating Tests

Available hooks

hook_test_finished

hook_test_group_started

hook_test_group_finished

hook_simpletest_alter

Summary

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