Drupal 6 Attachment Views

Drupal 6 Attachment Views By J. Ayen Green
Publisher: Packt Publishing 2010 | 300 Pages | ISBN: 1849510806 | PDF | 7 MB

This is a fun, informative, hands-on learning guide. It uses a real case study in an interactive and informal manner, and presents examples that continue to build on each other. Clear, concise instructions and practical examples mean you can learn quickly how to increase the functionality and value of your web site. If you are a Drupal developer of any level and you are waiting to explore Attachment Views, then this book is for you.

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Drupal 6 Performance Tips

Drupal 6 Performance Tips By Trevor James, T J Holowaychuk
Publisher: Packt Publishing 2010 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1847195849 | PDF | 7 MB

Learn how to maximize and optimize your Drupal framework using Drupal 6 best practice performance solutions and tools
Monitor the performance of your Drupal website and improve it
Configure a Drupal multisite environment for best performance
Lot of examples with clear explanations
Choose and use the best Drupal modules for improving your site's performance

In Detail
Drupal is one of the most respected and widely used open source content management frameworks. Small, medium, and large-scale websites are built using Drupal and the framework supports ecommerce, CRM, multisite and web service integrations.
Once you get your Drupal site installed and up and running, you will be concerned with site performance and how fast you can make your Drupal site run. This book will focus on implementing performance modules and solutions to help speed up your Drupal website.
We will look at introductory topics such as upgrading your Drupal site, maintaining your site, and enabling core Drupal page compression and caching.
Then we will turn to an advanced look at some contributed modules that help speed up performance, including Development, Boost, Authcache, Advanced Cache, and the Memcache API and Integration module.
Finally, we'll look at how best to implement a Drupal multisite environment and run it with high-speed performance in mind.
This book is designed for Drupal developers and webmasters who want to increase their Drupal site's speed and performance. You will take your Drupal site to the next level by not only displaying relevant and newsworthy content, but also running a powerful and high-speed website.
What you will learn from this book
Upgrade your Drupal 5 site to Drupal 6 using best practice upgrade paths
Back up and maintain your Drupal 6 site using core and contributed modules and utilities
Configure the Drupal core and contributed modules for high traffic
Run core Drupal page compression, CSS and JS compression, and use Drupal page caching
Run scheduled cron tasks to perform crucial garbage-collection processes
Use the Development (Devel) module to monitor page loads and queries
Use the Boost module for anonymous page caching, tweak Boost settings, and use Boost blocks and advanced Boost settings to monitor site performance
Install and use Memcache API and Integration module, and Authcache and Advanced Cached modules to enhance and monitor site performance
Configure a Drupal multisite environment for best performance
Approach
This is a practical and solution-based book designed to help you to quickly discover and learn about specific aspects of Drupal performance that you are interested in. In each chapter, Drupal-based modular performance tips and solutions are investigated and explained in detail.
Who this book is written for
This book is written for Drupal beginners, developers, designers, and webmasters who utilize the Drupal content management system to create robust websites. It provides crucial performance-related information for users of all experience levels, including Drupal module contributors, webmasters who simply configure and maintain Drupal websites, and even Drupal themers.
This book expects basic knowledge of Drupal operation, configuration and server technologies, and applications including MySQL and PHP.
About the Author
Trevor James
Trevor James is a Drupal developer and web designer based in Middletown, MD, USA. Trevor has been designing websites for 13 years using a combination of HTML, XHTML, CSS, and ColdFusion. He has been using Drupal intensively for more than 2 years. Trevors focus is on building web portals for higher education, public education (K-12), and non-profit and small business environments. He is interested in best methods of developing Drupal themes, Drupal site performance, and using CCK, Views and Panels to develop frontend interfaces to support data-intensive websites. He loves teaching people about Drupal and how to use this excellent open source content management framework. He is also a contributor and community member on drupal.org and related Drupal community projects.
TJ Holowaychuk
TJ Holowaychuk, president of Vision Media is an avid contributor to the Drupal project as well as to other open-source applications. Contributing over 16 Drupal modules, several themes, and having fully designed, developed, and maintained hundreds of Drupal websites he has displayed a wealth of knowledge across different aspects of the industry.

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Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours

Jesse Feiler "Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours"
Sams | English | November 2009 | ISBN: 0672331268 | 440 pages | PDF | 52 MB

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to build powerful, easy-to-maintain websites with Drupal–fast! Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master every skill you’ll need, from organizing sites and using Drupal’s design themes to setting up search, polls, forums, and security. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success!
Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Drupal tasks.
Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.
By the Way notes present interesting information related to the
discussion. Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to
perform tasks. Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.
Jesse Feiler provides consulting services to small businesses and non-profits through his company, North Country Consulting (northcountryconsulting.com). His recent books include FileMaker Pro 10 In Depth, The Bento Book, How to Do Everything with Web 2.0 Mashups, and iWork ‘09 For Dummies®.

Category: Web Development
Covers: Drupal
User Level: Beginning—Intermediate
Learn how to…
Make the most of Drupal, whether you’re building business, non-profit, or personal sites
Download, install, and configure open source Drupal 6 and 7, and make sure it’sworking properly
Plan and organize your sites so they are easy to manage–and friendly to both users and search engines
Customize sites with Drupal’s extensive library of optional open source modules
Create barebone sites and home pages automatically
Add text, images, links, and other essential site features
Master Drupal’s powerful Content Construction Kit (CCK)
Incorporate new types of content, ranging from articles to e-commerce products
Secure Drupal sites by managing users, permissions, roles, and user profiles
Categorize and tag content, and implement full-text search
Promote user involvement with polls, comments, forums, RSS feed aggregation, blogs, and newsletters
Automate and simplify site management with Triggers, Actions, and Rules

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Drupal Multimedia: Create Media-rich Drupal Sites by Learning to Embed and Manipulate Images, Video, and Audio

Drupal Multimedia: Create Media-rich Drupal Sites by Learning to Embed and Manipulate Images, Video, and Audio
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited | ISBN: 1847194605 | edition 2008 | PDF | 264 pages | 26,3 mb

This book will guide you through the steps necessary to add image, video, and audio elements into your Drupal sites. The book will take you through the contributed modules for handling media, showing you what they do, when to use them, and how to get the most from them. When contributed modules aren’t enough, you will see examples of custom Drupal development to add that special touch to your media.

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Drupal 6 Themes: Create new themes for your Drupal 6 site with clean layout and powerful CSS styling

Drupal 6 Themes: Create new themes for your Drupal 6 site with clean layout and powerful CSS styling by Ric Shreves
Publisher: Packt Publishing (September 30, 2008) | 312 pages | ISBN: 1847195660 | PDF | 4.1 MB

Drupal is an award winning open source Content Management System (CMS). Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design mean it is one of the most popular choices for creating a CMS website.

Drupal employs a specialized templating system and supports themes, which allow you to change the look and feel of the system's front and back-end interfaces.

Drupal 6 Themes is an ideal introduction to theming with Drupal 6. If you want to create a striking new look for your Drupal 6 website, this book is for you. This book is a revised, updated and expanded edition of Drupal 5 Themes, written specifically for Drupal 6. The book will show you techniques and tools to help you improve the look and feel of any Drupal 6-powered website.

Starting from the basics of theme setup and configuration, you will learn about the Drupal theming architecture and the PHPTemplate engine, and then move on to modifying existing themes and building new themes from scratch. You will find out about tools to make your theme development easier, and also find invaluable information about under-documented elements of the theming system.
What you will learn from this book?

* Learn about the Drupal 6 Theming Architecture
* Find and install new themes
* Get the most from Drupal's theme configuration system
* Create a new theme from scratch
* Master PHPTemplate
* Modify the default templates and styles
* Override the default templates with your own
* Create dynamic styling which responds to the content or the user
* Discover tools that make theming easier and more efficient

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Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites

Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites: How to setup, configure and customise this powerful PHP/MySQL based Open Source CMS by David Mercer
Publisher: Packt Publishing (May 11, 2006) | 284 pages | ISBN: 1904811809 | PDF | 5.7 MB

How to setup, configure and customise this powerful PHP/MySQL based Open Source CMS

* Install, configure, administer, maintain and extend Drupal.
* Control access with users, roles and permissions
* Structure your content using Drupal's powerful CMS features
* Includes coverage of release 4.7

Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems on the internet. Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design mean it is already on the way to becoming the de facto standard for CMS Websites. Drupal's modular design and structured source code make it both highly flexible and easily extended and modified. Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence.

Drupal is a model open source project in that it has a large, friendly community of people who contribute to the project in various ways. Drupal is not only free and easy to use, but this community provides on going mutual support.

Drupal's power means choosing an initial pathway can be daunting. The flexibility and power of its content management features mean the right approach needs to be taken. This book takes you from initial set up through site design and creation in a series of carefully structured steps. While there are a few advanced topics that are beyond the scope of the book, all of the core stages of creating a website using Drupal are covered in detail.

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Drupal 5 Views Recipes

Marjorie Roswell "Drupal 5 Views Recipes"
PP | English | 2009-06-15 | ISBN: 1847196969 | 420 pages | PDF | 5,7 MB

94 recipes to develop custom content displays for your Drupal web site
• Display particular types of content in unique and compelling ways on your Drupal web site
• Enhance your web site with calendars, timelines, galleries, maps, podcasts, Views Fusion, and more
• Indispensable resources for Drupal 5 Administrators - Drupal Administration Menu, Views Bulk Operations, ModuleInfo, and Editable Fields modules
• More than 90 recipes - pick the ones that work best for your web site

In Detail
The Drupal View modules give you flexibility and freedom to customize the display of your web site's content. Although there are more than 100 views-enabled modules, few site administrators use Drupal Views to its full potential.
This book will enable you to realize the fullest potential of this powerful resource by providing a wide variety of powerful recipes for creating and displaying a wide variety of views - essential classics you will use again and again to innovative display methods that will make your Drupal site stand out. Pick and choose the ones you would like to prepare for your web site.
In this book you will find ninety-four recipes to create a wide selection of views. The list includes event listings, interactive calendars and timelines, maps, proximity search, podcasting, carousels, Views Fusion, and many more. You will also explore default views, views with CCK, and master a variety of ways to associate views with related content.
Most people think of Views for site visitors. But Views can also be handy for site administrators. You will get to know the Views Bulk Operations module, along with Editable Fields, and Views Custom Fields. (You'll probably wonder why you never used them before!)
If you want to take Views to the next level, the book contains a code-rich chapter on theming. However, you will find most of the recipes detailed by the author do not require any original coding at all.
As you progress through the recipes, you will be immersed in such Drupal Views topics as fields, arguments, filters, exposed filters, sorting, style plug-ins, formatters, cloning and copying views.
Because Drupal is a worldwide and ever adapting system, the author also includes great tips and resources for navigating the online Drupal community and expanding your knowledge of the recipes.
Finally, there is an extensive Appendix, which includes listings of all default views, formatters and style plug-ins for Drupal 5, along with a categorized list of patches.

What you will learn from this book?
• Master the Views User Interface
• Create views arguments
• Implement and create default views for recent comments, the frontpage, group listings, and more
• Explore a variety of ways to associate views with related content
• Display event listings, calendars, and timelines
• Make site administration easier using several administration modules
• Enhance your web site with Google Map tools, YouTube video bar, photo gallery, audio, and Views Fast Search
• Enable your users to flag and bookmark content for later viewing
• Incorporate views into panels and tabs
• Create a directory of available theme functions, and learn some key debugging strategies
• Use theme overrides and CSS to create more attractive views
• Fix the long-standing taxonomy term bug, and the body field Views display issue
• Create and apply patches
• Create some helpful browser buttons and search plug-ins to facilitate finding information online

Approach
This book will give you a long list of powerful recipes. Choose the ones that suit your needs and use them through step-by-step instructions. Most of the recipes are code-free, but a number of the recipes contain code snippets.

Who this book is written for?
This book is primarily written for Drupal site builders, administrators, and themers who want to develop custom content displays using Views. It can be used by anyone who has a Drupal 5 web site, including original site developers as well as people who have inherited a Drupal 5 site.
Some knowledge of HTML and CSS is required; PHP basics will be handy for some of the recipes.

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Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours By Jesse Feiler
Publisher: Sams 2009-11-19 | 456 Pages | ISBN: 0672331268 | PDF | 48 MB

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to build powerful, easy-to-maintain websites with Drupal–fast! Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master every skill you’ll need, from organizing sites and using Drupal’s design themes to setting up search, polls, forums, and security. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success!

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Drupal tasks. Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge. By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion. Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks. Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.

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Leveraging Drupal: Getting Your Site Done Right

Leveraging Drupal: Getting Your Site Done Right
Victor Kane | February 2009 | ISBN: 0470410876 | PDF | 480 pages | English | 8 MB

This book is a step-by-step guide and a hands-on co-piloted experience for those trying to make Drupal powered websites work for them, and for their clients. Much more than a "tutorial", what is needed is a nuts-and-bolts living mentor and guide which really shows the reader how to do the things really required for bringing it all together in a site which works. This will be the only book covering all the difficult components of Drupal: views, panels, themes, content creation, etc.

The book will cover:

* How to upgrade your hopelessly outdated and obsolete-software dependent site and bring it into the Drupal mainstream and future
* How to become a great Drupal themer and make "non-Drupal" looking sites
* How to really customize Drupal for your real needs
* How to start using best practices in Drupal web application development
* How to work like the pro Drupal shops and be ready for big projects - and small ones
* Learn by example (code samples, theme samples, videos) at every step

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Front End Drupal: Designing, Theming, Scripting

Konstantin Käfer, Emma Hogbin "Front End Drupal: Designing, Theming, Scripting (Developer's Library)"
Prentice Hall PTR | English | 2009-04-15 | ISBN: 0137136692 | 456 pages | PDF | 4 MB

“For Drupal to succeed, we need books like this.”
–Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder and project lead

“Drupal faces a common problem on the Web–the relative lack of new, high quality themes. Front End Drupal tackles this problem directly and is designed to help both experienced designers and rank novices get an understanding of how Drupal theming works. In fact, I’ll be the first to admit I learned a lot from this book.”
– Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder and project lead

The Practical, Complete Guide to Customizing Drupal Sites with Behaviors, Themes, and Templates

Drupal is now the world’s #1 open source content management system: Thousands of individuals and organizations are using it to build and update Web sites of virtually every kind. As Web designers and developers adopt Drupal, they need ways to quickly customize the visuals and interactivity of their sites. Drupal offers powerful tools for doing so, but little guidance on using them effectively. Front End Drupal is the solution. In this book, two expert Drupal developers cover everything you need to know to create great visual designs and state-of-the-art interactivity with Drupal’s behaviors, themes, and templates.

Front End Drupal is 100% focused on issues of site design, behavior, usability, and management. The authors show how to style Drupal sites, make the most of Drupal’s powerful templating system, build sophisticated community sites, streamline site management, and build more portable, flexible themes. You’ll also gain hands-on experience through several case studies that walk you through the customization of everything from page templates to Web site forums.

• Prepare and organize content so it’s easier to integrate into Drupal Web sites
• Structure Drupal page templates that are easy to work with
• Configure Drupal with the modules and browser tools you need to customize your site
• Utilize Drupal’s Starter Themes and themes converted from WordPress, Joomla!™, and Drupal 5.x
• Maximize the power and usability of Drupal’s content editing forms
• Build usable community sites with user profiles, comments, and user-generated content
• Use JavaScript™ to make your themes interactive and to enhance usability
• Create powerful animations and AJAX callbacks with jQuery, Drupal’s JavaScript library
About the Web Site
The accompanying site, frontenddrupal.com, contains all sample code and themes presented in this book.

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Drupal 6: Ultimate Community Site Guide

Drupal 6: Ultimate Community Site Guide
149 pages | MSc MIS (2009) | 978-2839904902 | PDF | 4 Mb

Published by Holistic Vibes Sarl in 2009, the book was written by Dorien Herremans, an independent Web developer in Belgium who holds an MSc degree in MIS from the University of Antwerp, and has lectured in IT and 3D computer animation at Les Roches University of Applied Sciences, in Bluche, Switzerland. Her Drupal story is no doubt similar to that of many other Web developers: After building numerous sites in Drupal, she decided to create a new community site — in this case, Raw Vegan Dating. She was well aware that other CMSs offered fairly sophisticated modules that could be dropped into a fresh CMS installation, thereby creating a new community site instantly. But that approach generally requires one to accept the functional limitations of the chosen module, or start hacking the module's code (which for most modules is poorly written and equally poorly documented), with no guarantee that one's modifications will even work. Dorien instead opted for Drupal's flexibility, but found the development process rather difficult and time-consuming, partly because of some technical issues that arose:

*How can one easily create advanced profiles in Drupal?
*Can one add a photo gallery to each profile?
*Ultimately, these lead to a much broader question: Is it possible to build a feature-rich community/dating site using only core and contributed modules, without having to make any modifications to them?

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Drupal for Education and E-Learning

Drupal for Education and E-Learning by Bill Fitzgerald
Publisher: P-Pu (November 28, 2008) | 400 pages | ISBN: 1847195024 | PDF | 11 MB

Social media in the classroom provide unique opportunities for teaching and learning. This book helps you break through the hype, and shows you how to build a site in Drupal that incorporates the Web in your class, on your terms, to achieve specific learning goals.

This book provides the essential details to get the most out of your Drupal site. In clear, step-by-step instructions, you will learn how to build a site that is easy to use, easy to navigate, and supports the teaching and learning you want to emphasize.

Drupal for Education and E-Learning provides a step-by-step overview of how to work with Drupal to build a feature-rich learning environment. In this book, you will learn how to configure the default Drupal installation, and how to extend your site to include social bookmarking, a podcasting and video sharing platform, image sharing, and interactive discussions around rich media content. You will also learn how to organize your site so that, as learning occurs over time, you and your students will be able to track their work history.

What you will learn from this book?

* Drupal terminology and how Drupal works
* How to build an intuitive structure to allow students and teachers to find relevant content
* How to build an instructor blog to communicate with your students and also the larger school community
* How to publish assignments for students in your courses, and how to track student responses to those assignments
* Using roles, and role-based privileges, to support teaching and learning
* Sharing learning resources using tags and bookmarks
* How to set up a podcasting platform that allows podcasts to be aggregated in a variety of places, including iTunes, thus enabling students and teachers to share information with anyone at any time
* How to set up informal working groups alongside classes to create a safe space for students to collaborate on class projects
* How to develop your site using best practices, and maintain it safely and securely
* Extending your site by installing contributed modules and themes
* Setting up and using some of Drupal's most popular modules: CCK, Views, and Organic Groups

Approach

The book focuses around creating educational activities in Drupal, with lots of examples of realistic courses and classroom ideas - and how to implement them.

Who this book is written for?

This book is for anybody looking to use Drupal to support teaching and learning; more generally, the examples given in this book can also be used by anybody looking to use Drupal to publish social media. This book is not a developer's manual; you do NOT need to know code, or HTML, or CSS, to benefit from this book. People new to Drupal will find clear examples describing how to set up their site. More experienced Drupallers will find tips and tricks for extending their site, and step-by-step instructions on how to make the most out of Drupal's flexibility.

About the Author

Bill Fitzgerald

Bill Fitzgerald was born in 1968, and worked as a teacher for 16 years. During that time, he taught English and History, and worked as a Technology Director at the K12 level. Bill began using technology in his own teaching in the early 90s; from there, he moved on to database design and systems administration. During that time, Bill began developing strategies to support technology integration in 1:1 laptop systems, and in desktop computing environments.

In 2003, Bill and Marc Poris founded FunnyMonkey, a Drupal development shop working primarily within education.

When Bill is not staring deeply into computer screens, he can be found riding his fixed gear bicycle through Portland, OR, or spending far too much time drinking coffee.

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