商品簡介
Many of the most widely recognized websites on the planet use Drupal as the platform for delivering content and functionality to their visitors. With the release of Drupal 7, a new era of content management emerges in the market with features and functionality that raise the bar on what you can accomplish on the web. With Pro Drupal 7, you'll discover how to dig deep into Drupal's features to create amazing solutions.
I wrote this book with a focus on the developer who is responsible for creating and extending the capabilities of a website on Drupal. We'll cover everything from the fundamentals of the Drupal platform, understanding and using Drupal's APIs, writing your own modules to extend Drupal's functionality, writing secure code, building high performance Drupal websites, and other topics that will help you along the path of becoming a Drupal expert.
What you can do with Drupal is only limited by your imagination and the time that you have to put into learning the richness of what Drupal provides to you, the developer. Pro Drupal 7 gives you the tools you need to take full advantage of what Drupal offers.
作者簡介
John K. VanDyk has been a Drupal developer since 2004. In 2005, he organized the first Drupal conference in Antwerp, Belgium, with Drupal founder Dries Buytaert. John has contributed several modules to Drupal including the actions, workflow, publish, subscribe, and pubcookie modules and has been instrumental in the design of Drupal's Content Construction Kit. John's day job is as an entomology professor and systems analyst at Iowa State University, where he teaches undergraduate courses about insects. In his spare time, when not hacking on Drupal, John enjoys squash hunting and raising children.
