Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours

✍ Scribed by Jesse Feiler

• Publisher: Sams
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 457
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

I've been a fan of Sam's Teach Yourself books for years now - and this is the absolute worst one I have ever read. Past the first chapter on installation, it's more like a first draft consisting of disjointed and poorly organized Drupal concepts. If you are trying to learn Drupal from scratch, don't waste your money.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 14
We Want to Hear from You!......Page 15
Introduction......Page 16
Introduction......Page 20
Getting the Terms Straight......Page 21
What Content Management Means and How It Helps You......Page 23
Organizing the Drupal Project......Page 26
Q&A......Page 30
Activities......Page 31
Wandering the Worlds of Drupal......Page 32
There Is No Drupal “Look”......Page 34
How Drupal Works......Page 38
Q&A......Page 42
Activities......Page 43
Planning for the Next Installation......Page 44
Planning for Drupal......Page 45
Q&A......Page 59
Workshop......Page 60
Activities......Page 61
Introduction......Page 62
Interacting with Two Interfaces......Page 63
Getting Started with Administration......Page 64
Exploring the Basic Submenus......Page 67
Setting Themes......Page 77
Introducing Modules......Page 80
Summary......Page 87
Workshop......Page 88
Activities......Page 89
Building a Site......Page 90
Introducing Nodes......Page 92
Creating Nodes......Page 95
Using Alternate Input Pages......Page 98
Editing a Node......Page 99
Q&A......Page 100
Activities......Page 101
Introduction......Page 102
Using Clean URLs......Page 103
Using the Path Module......Page 106
Using the Pathauto Module......Page 108
Redirecting URLs......Page 117
Q&A......Page 119
Activities......Page 120
Introduction......Page 122
Using the CCK Structure......Page 123
Installing CCK and ImageField......Page 124
Adding an ImageField to a Story......Page 125
Managing Other CCK Fields......Page 130
Reusing Existing Fields......Page 134
Automatically Resizing Image Fields with ImageCache......Page 136
Bringing All the Image Pieces Together......Page 139
Q&A......Page 140
Activities......Page 141
Introduction......Page 142
Identifying the Security Components......Page 143
Creating Roles......Page 144
Editing Permissions......Page 146
Working with Users......Page 148
Exporting Profile Data with Profile CSV......Page 157
Q&A......Page 158
Activities......Page 159
Introduction......Page 160
Preparing for Search with Cron and Poormanscron......Page 161
Setting Up Search......Page 163
Setting Up Taxonomy......Page 165
Using Taxonomy......Page 170
Q&A......Page 172
Activities......Page 173
Introduction......Page 174
Using Polls......Page 175
Using Comments......Page 179
Using Forum Discussions......Page 182
Using Feed Aggregation......Page 186
Q&A......Page 188
Activities......Page 189
Introduction......Page 190
Filtering HTML in Nodes......Page 191
Implementing Rich Text with WYSIWYG......Page 194
Adding Images to Rich Text Nodes......Page 201
Q&A......Page 209
Workshop......Page 210
Activities......Page 211
Introduction......Page 212
Using Drupal Blogs......Page 213
Creating Newsletters with Simplenews......Page 220
Workshop......Page 228
Activities......Page 229
Introduction......Page 230
Using the Contact Form......Page 231
Using Webforms......Page 236
Summary......Page 249
Workshop......Page 250
Activities......Page 251
Introduction......Page 252
Introducing Views......Page 253
Getting Started with Views......Page 254
Creating a View......Page 260
Editing a View......Page 262
Q&A......Page 269
Activities......Page 270
Introduction......Page 272
Introducing the Date and Calendar Modules’ Calendar and Upcoming Events......Page 273
Getting Started with the Date and Calendar Modules......Page 276
Q&A......Page 284
Activities......Page 285
Introduction......Page 286
Getting Started with Ubercart......Page 288
Working with Money......Page 292
Setting Up Ubercart Basics: Catalogs, Product Classes, Products, and Attributes......Page 299
Working with Downloadable Sales......Page 305
Working with Reservation Sales......Page 307
Working with Physical Sales......Page 309
Working with Membership Sales......Page 313
Using Product Kits......Page 314
Q&A......Page 315
Workshop......Page 316
Activities......Page 317
Reviewing Your Configuration and Implementation......Page 318
Protecting Against Intruders......Page 319
Using Terms of Service and Other Legal Modules......Page 322
Finding More Modules......Page 323
Exploring Drupal Advertising Modules......Page 324
Workshop......Page 326
Activities......Page 327
Keeping the Train on the Track......Page 328
Three Themes for Plattsburgh Green......Page 330
Buying Themes......Page 335
Installing and Switching Themes......Page 336
Q&A......Page 339
Workshop......Page 340
Activities......Page 341
Introducing Blocks......Page 342
Creating and Using Blocks......Page 345
Workshop......Page 349
Activities......Page 350
Introduction......Page 352
Getting Started with Panel Pages......Page 355
Creating a Panel Page......Page 357
Using a Panel Page......Page 358
Editing a Panel Page’s Settings......Page 360
Editing Variant Settings......Page 363
Q&A......Page 367
Activities......Page 368
Introduction......Page 370
Looking at Drupal’s Menus......Page 371
Building a Menu and Using Hierarchies......Page 374
Building a Custom Menu for Specific Pages......Page 381
Q&A......Page 384
Workshop......Page 385
Activities......Page 386
Using Triggers......Page 388
Using Actions......Page 391
Using Tokens and Customized Actions......Page 392
Using Rules......Page 398
Workshop......Page 407
Activities......Page 408
Constructing a Dynamic Page......Page 410
Modifying a Built-In Page......Page 420
Using Node Reference and User Reference Fields......Page 424
Q&A......Page 430
Activities......Page 431
Introduction......Page 432
Looking at an Info File......Page 433
Changing a Theme’s Images......Page 437
Q&A......Page 440
Activities......Page 441
APPENDIX A: Updating Drupal......Page 442
Drupal’s Evolution......Page 444
Two Moving Targets......Page 446
A......Page 448
C......Page 449
F......Page 450
L......Page 451
P......Page 452
S......Page 453
U......Page 454
X-Z......Page 455