The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 1st Edition  (English, Paperback, Jacine Luisi, Karoly Negyesi, Benjamin Melancon)

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. With this book you will:

• Follow practical approaches to solving many online communication needs with Drupal with real examples.
• Learn how to keep learning about Drupal: administration, development, theming, design, and architecture.
• Go beyond the code to engage with the Drupal community as a contributing member and to do Drupal sustainably as a business.

The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 was written by thefollowing team of expert Drupal authors: Benjamin Melançon, Jacine Luisi, Karoly Negyesi, Greg Anderson, Bojhan Somers, Stephane Corlosquet, Stefan Freudenberg, Michelle Lauer, Ed Carlevale, Florian Loretan, Dani Nordin, Ryan Szrama, Susan Stewart, Jake Strawn, Brian Travis, Dan Hakimzadeh, Amye Scavarda, Albert Albala, Allie Micka, Robert Douglass, Robin Monks, Roy Scholten, Peter Wolanin, Kay VanValkenburgh, Greg Stout, Kasey Qynn Dolin, Mike Gifford, Claudina Sarahe, Sam Boyer, and Forest Mars, with contributions from George Cassie, Mike Ryan, Nathaniel Catchpole, and Dmitri Gaskin.

For more information, check out the Drupaleasy podcast #63, in which author Benjamin Melançon discusses The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 in great detail:

What you’ll learn

• Launch a community-ready site in fifteen minutes.
• Talk to stakeholders and architect a site’s structure and functionality around the goals it must achieve to successfully launch major enterprise sites.
• Find, evaluate, and configure modules to extend Drupal’s functionality.
• Theme inspired designs into functional, future-proof templates.
• Build modules when you need to extend what Drupal can do beyond the thousands of solutions already coded by others.
• Work with Drupal sustainably as a professional and as a participant in the Drupal community.

Who this book is for
Anyone who has heard of Drupal and has a personal or professional reason to learn more: from Drupal administrators, themers, and developers to moonlighters and intense hobbyists. People considering a solo or collaborative career making websites will find this book their complete stop for Drupal.

Contributors
Benjamin Melancon, Jacine Luisi, Karoly Negyesi, Bojhan Somers, Stephane Corlosquet, Stefan Freudenberg, Ryan Szrama, Dan Hakimzadeh, Amye Scavarda, Allie Micka, Roy Scholten, Kasey Dolin, Sam Boyer

Table of Contents
1. Building a Drupal 7 Site
2. Essential Tools: Drush and Git
3. Building Dynamic Pages Using Views
4. There's a Module for That
5. Creating Community Web Sites with Organic Groups
6. Security in Drupal
7. Updating Drupal
8. Extending Your Site
9. Drupal Community: Getting Help and Getting Involved
10. Planning and Managing a Drupal Project
11. Documenting for End Users and the Production Team
12. Development Environment
13. Putting a Site Online and Deploying New Features
14. Developing from a Human Mindset
15. Theming
16. Advanced Theming
17. jQuery
18. Introduction to Module Development
19. Using Drupal's APIs in a Module
20. Refining Your Module
21. Porting Modules to Drupal 7
22. Writing Project-Specific Code
23. Introduction to Functional Testing with Simpletest
24. Writing a Major Module
25. Drupal Commerce
26. Drush
27. Scaling Drupal
28. Spice Your Content Up with Tasty Semantics
29. The Menu System and the Path Into Drupal
30. Under the Hood: Inside Drupal When It Displays a Page
31. Search and Apache Solr Integration
32. User Experience
33. Completing a Site: The Other 90%
34. Drupal Distributions and Installation Profiles
35. Drupal's Story: A Chain of Many Unexpected Events
36. Now You're in Business: Making a Living with Drupal
37. Maintaining a Project
38. Contributing to the Community
39. Appendix A: Updating a Drupal Site from 6 to 7
40. Appendix B: Profiling Drupal and Optimizing Performance
41. Appendix C: Page Rendering and Altering
42. Appendix D: Visual Design in Drupal
43. Appendix E: Accessibility
44. Appendix F: Windows Development Environment
45. Appendix G: Installing Drupal on Ubuntu
46. Appendix H: Mac OS X Installation
47. Appendix I: Setting Up a Drupal Environment with the Acquia Dev Desktop