Learn more about the PHP based free and open-source content management framework, Drupal, with these free ebooks! | Drupal is the free and open-source web development platform for online content and user communities. Some of the world’s busiest websites today are based on Drupal including WhiteHouse.gov, World Economic Forum, and Stanford University. Learn more about different aspects of Drupal with these free ebooks. |
How can you help your Drupal website continue to perform at the highest level as it grows to meet demand? This comprehensive guide provides best practices, examples, and in-depth explanations for solving several performance and scalability issues. You’ll learn how to apply coding and infrastructure techniques to Drupal internals, application performance, databases, web servers, and performance analysis. Covering Drupal versions 7 and 8, this book is the ideal reference for everything from site deployment to implementing specific technologies such as Varnish, memcache, or Solr. If you have a basic understanding of Drupal and the Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP (LAMP) stack, you’re ready to get started.
2. Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook
Get to grips with Drupal Commerce, the new ecommerce framework based on the Drupal CMS , one of the most popular and powerful open source content management systems available. Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook takes you through the installation, configuration, and customisation of your Drupal Commerce store. With clear, practical recipes with plenty of screenshots and tips this book will help you build attractive and profitable eCommerce sites. This book starts by showing you how to install and configure your Drupal Commerce store. Once your shop is up and running, you’ll then learn how to customise and optimise it to make it stand out and display your products better.
3. Programming Drupal 7 Entities
Writing code for manipulating Drupal data has never been easier! Learn to dice and serve your data as you slowly peel back the layers of the Drupal entity onion. Next, expose your legacy local and remote data to take full advantage of Drupal’s vast solution space. Programming Drupal 7 Entities is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a thorough knowledge of Drupal’s entity paradigm and a number of clear step-by-step exercises, which will help you take advantage of the real power that is available when developing using entities.
4. Drupal for Education and E-Learning, 2nd Edition
As social networks become more popular, their role in the classroom has come under scrutiny. Drupal offers a wide variety of useful tools for educators. Within a single Drupal site, you can set up social bookmarking, podcasting, video hosting, formal and informal groups, rich user profiles, and other features commonly associated with social web communities. Drupal for Education and E-Learning – 2nd Edition teaches you how to create your own social networking site to advance teaching and learning goals in the classroom, while giving you complete control over features and access. Communicate with students, share learning resources, and track assignments through simple tasks with this hands-on guide.
Learn how to import content and data into your Drupal 7 site from other websites, content management systems, and databases. Upgrade your Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7 and migrate your CCK based content into the Drupal 7 fields based framework. Use modules that will automate the import and migration process including the Feeds and Migrate modules. Run additional imports using the Feeds modules to update and add new data and content to your Drupal site.
Brand new recipe examples using the all new Views 3 UI. A wide variety, including multi-display and programmatic views. Easy-to-follow recipes with plenty of screenshots and demonstrations. Present menu choices for categorized subsets of your content. Create blocks containing interesting lists or randomly selected images. Manipulate the templates to add pizzazz to your views. Administer your views with confidence.
7. Drupal 7 Multi Sites Configuration
Prepare your server for hosting multiple sites. Configure and install several sites on one instance of Drupal. Manage and share themes and modules across the multi-site configuration. Rapidly build a multi-site testing environment with VirtualBox and Vagrant. Extend the core multi-site configuration with add-on module.
8. Programmer’s Guide to Drupal
If you’re a web programmer new to Drupal this book shows you which programming techniques you can use – and which you should avoid – when building custom web applications with this content management framework. Drupal has its own set of programming principles that require a different approach, and many programmers make mistakes when relying on skills they’ve used for other projects. The guidelines in this book help you through the transition by demonstrating which programming practices conform to the “Drupal way,” and which don’t.
Take advantage of Drupal’s vast collection of community-contributed modules and discover how they make this web framework unique and valuable. With this guide, you’ll learn how to combine modules in interesting ways (with minimal code-wrangling) to develop several community-driven websites – including a job posting board, photo gallery, online store, product review database, and event calendar.
10. Drupal Search Engine Optimization
Learn how to create a search engine-optimized Drupal website. Packed full of tips to help you develop an appropriate SEO strategy. Discover the right configurations and extensions for SEO purposes. Gain an understanding of how the search engines function. Configure your Drupal site to be search engine friendly. The top extensions to enhance your Drupal sites search engine optimization. What the most important factors to track with Google Analytics are.
Are you a solo web designer or part of a small team itching to build interesting projects with Drupal? This hands-on book provides the tools and techniques to get you going. Award-winning designer Dani Nordin guides you through site planning, teaches you how to create solid, user-centered design for the Drupal framework, and shows you tricks for using real, honest-to-goodness, developer Ninja Magick. If you’re familiar with HTML and CSS, but struggling with Drupal’s learning curve, this is the book you’ve been looking for.
12. Drupal Development Tricks for Designers
Take your Drupal skills even further with valuable tricks for making site building truly efficient. In this concise guide – the third in a series by award-winning designer Dani Nordin – you’ll learn how to set up your own development environment, quickly update your modules, and use version control to protect yourself from bonehead mistakes. Handle repetitive tasks with ease, avoid hours of frustration, and devote more time to pushing the envelope of Drupal design – just by picking up the basics of a few developer tools. It’s much more than simple coding; it’s real, honest-to-goodness developer Ninja Magick.
13. Planning and Managing Drupal Projects
If you’re a solo website designer or part of a small team itching to build interesting projects with Drupal this concise guide will get you started. Drupal’s learning curve has thrown off many experienced designers, particularly the way it handles design challenges. This book shows you the lifecycle of a typical Drupal project, with emphasis on the early stages of site planning. Learn how to efficiently estimate and set up your own project, so you can focus on ways to make your vision a reality, rather than let project management details constantly distract you.
14. Drupal
Drupal enables you to build a wide variety of websites quickly and easily, from simple blog sites to complex sites that integrate with other systems. In order to maximize what Drupal can do for your website, you need to plan. With this comprehensive book, Drupal expert Cindy McCourt walks you through planning your Drupal site, using optimal methods for leveraging the power and flexibility of the Drupal framework. Regardless of your level of experience working with Drupal this guide provides you with a series of analyses and tasks from a Drupal perspective that allows you to start thinking in Drupal and helps you plan each phase of your site’s lifecycle.
15. The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7
The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 is the most comprehensive book for getting sites done using the powerful and extensible Drupal content management system. Written by a panel of expert authors, the book covers every aspect of Drupal from planning a successful project all the way up to making a living from designing Drupal sites and to contributing to the Drupal community yourself.
16. Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers
Drupal 7 opens the door for you as a Windows developer to build Drupal sites – including custom modules – all without leaving Visual Studio! Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers gives you everything you need to know to achieve this, whilst drilling down into the advanced topics that you’ll want to master whilst working with Drupal 7 as a Windows developer. Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers starts with the Drupal page model, which Windows programmers can contrast against the ASP.NET page model. You will then explore the various features of Drupal including the hook model, theming, roles, and caching. You’ll also discover the data abstraction layer which lays the foundation for integration with your enterprise-level databases and external systems
17. Design and Prototyping for Drupal
Itching to build interesting projects with Drupal but confused by the way it handles design challenges? This concise guide helps small teams and solo website designers understand how Drupal works by demonstrating the ways it outputs content. You’ll learn how to manage Drupal’s output, design around it, and then turn your design into a theme. In the second of three volumes on Drupal design, award-winning designer Dani Nordin takes you beyond basic site planning and teaches you key strategies for working with themes, layouts, and wireframes. Discover how to use Drupal to make your vision a reality, instead of getting distracted by the system’s project and code management details.
Build beautiful interactive maps on your Drupal website, and tell engaging visual stories with your data. This concise guide shows you how to create custom geographical maps from top to bottom, using Drupal 7 tools and out-of-the-box modules. You’ll learn how mapping works in Drupal with examples on how to use intuitive interfaces to map local events, businesses, groups, and other custom data. Although building maps with Drupal can be tricky, this book helps you navigate the system’s complexities for creating sophisticated maps that match your site design. Get the knowledge and tools you need to build useful maps with Drupal today.
The Drupal Panels module allows a site administrator to create customized layouts for multiple uses. At its core, it is a drag and drop content manager that lets you visually design a layout and place content within that layout. Guidance is required when it comes to successfully implementing panels in your CMS. The Panels module lacks sufficient documentation and most Drupal users are left in the lurch with many unanswered questions. This book comes to your rescue and discusses all that you need to successfully incorporate Panels in your Drupal CMS. You will learn everything from setting up Panels, through using it, to integrating it with other modules. The book discusses the various problems involved in using Panels along with their solutions. It shows you how to reap added benefits using Panels.
20. Beginning Drupal
Drupal is an open source framework and content management system used to create web sites that is known for its steep learning curve. This introduction offers you a clear and solid understanding of Drupal so that you can get started programming a Drupal site immediately. Author Jacob Redding walks you through the installation and configuration of a Drupal web site and presents a clear understanding of Drupal’s hook system, theming layer, views, and API. Throughout the book, helpful examples and step-by-step instructions provide you with a strong proficiency in the power and capabilities of Drupal.
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.
With Drupal Web professionals can create full-featured Web sites with just a few clicks. Drupal’s core is compact and well documented, but much of Drupal’s immense power lies elsewhere – in external modules. Drupal’s Building Blocks is an authoritative tutorial, reference, and cookbook for Drupal’s most valuable modules. The authors are Drupal insiders who’ve spent years creating and supporting these modules – Earl Miles, developer of the Views and Panels modules, and Lynette Miles, Drupal documentation team member. They’ve brought together indispensable information you won’t find anywhere else, as well as extensive sample “recipe” code designed for easy adaptation and reuse.
23. Pro Drupal 7 Development, 3rd Edition
Pro Drupal 7 Development updates the most popular development reference for the release of Drupal 7. With several new and completely-rewritten essential APIs and improvements in Drupal 7, this book will not only teach developers how to write modules ranging from simple to complex, but also how Drupal itself works. This book is for existing Drupal module developers wanting to learn about Drupal 7 and people already knowledgeable in PHP who are interested in developing for Drupal. Simply put, if you are working with Drupal then you need this book.
24. Drupal 7 Module Development
Build modules extending Drupal’s core functionality; Create custom content types and entities; Learn how to work with Drupal’s hook system; Explore the major APIs introduced in Drupal 7 that the pros use to build successful Drupal websites; Test your code programatically with Drupal’s new Simple Test framework; Build and extend themes to make your Drupal 7 shine; Author interactive form-based tools with Drupal’s Forms API; Apply the principals of Test Drive; Development (TDD) using Drupal’s built-in SimpleTest framework; Leverage the book’s working module examples as a starting point for you own code; Discover the secrets of Drupal professionals as they explain the practical aspects of good Drupal development.
This book focuses on the nontechnical user who is responsible for building, maintaining, and managing Drupal web sites. The book covers why you should consider using Drupal when building a new web site, what Drupal is, installing and configuring Drupal creating and managing content, managing users, adding functionality to your web site through Drupal modules, and more advanced topics on using themes, panels, and views.
As an open source, community-based content management system and web site application development framework, Drupal allows you to create interactive, media-based, database-driven web sites that become a part of everyday activities and communications. This unique book is the first of its kind to tackle the challenging task of leveraging Drupal to get a site done right and make that site work for you, based on industry-wide software development best practices.
27. Drupal 6 Themes
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.
28. Using Drupal
With the recipes in this book, you can take full advantage of the vast collection of community-contributed modules that make the Drupal web framework useful and unique. You’ll get the information you need about how to combine modules in interesting ways (with a minimum of code-wrangling) to develop a variety of community-driven websites. Each chapter describes a case study and outlines specific requirements for one of several projects included in the book – a wiki, publishing workflow site, photo gallery, product review site, online store, user group site, and more. Newcomers will find a thorough introduction to the framework, while experienced Drupal developers will learn best practices for building powerful websites. With Using Drupal you’ll find concrete and creative solutions for developing the exact community website you have in mind.
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