Building and Theming Drupal Collection

Description

The Building and Theming Drupal Collection includes two popular eBooks:

• Front End Drupal: Designing, Theming, Scripting, by Emma Jane Hogbin and Konstantin Käfer
• Drupal's Building Blocks, by Earl Miles and Lynette Miles

This eBook collection is the definitive, in-depth guide to customizing Drupal 6 Web sites with front end tips and tricks and detailed information about the most powerful site building modules: CCK, Views, and Panels. This eBook collection includes several step-by-step case studies showing how to build and customize sites from scratch. Topics include

• Building and theming your own custom content types
• Creating custom themes
• Optimizing database query performance
• In-depth explanations of advanced topics such as filters, arguments, and relationships in panels and views

From the guts of Drupal's most powerful modules, to point-and-click configuration of your Drupal site, this eBook collection teaches you what you need to know.

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Supplements

For code samples and other information for Drupal’s Building Blocks, please visit the companion site at http://drupal-building-blocks.com.

Please visit the website for the authors of Front End Drupal at frontenddrupal.com

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Sample Pages

Download the sample pages for both books (includes Chapter 3 and Index)

Table of Contents

Front End Drupal

1     Web Page Design     1A

2     The Themers’ Toolkit     31A

3     Working with Drupal Themes     73A

4     The Drupal Page     107A

5     Drupal Content     151A

6     Customizing the Content-Editing Forms     183A

7     Users and Community Participation     219A

8     Administrative Interfaces     251A

9     Learning JavaScript     285A

10     An Introduction to jQuery     311A

11     JavaScript in Drupal     345A

A     Installing Drupal     381A

B     Supplemental Code     391A

Index     419A

Drupal’s Building Blocks

I: Content Construction Kit

1     Introducing CCK and Nodes      3B

2     Field Concepts      17B

3     Deeper into Fields      39B

4     Themes and CCK      59B

5     CCK API      75B

II: Views

6     Relational Databases      101B

7     Creating Views      109B

8     Arguments, Exposed Filters, and Relationships      137B

9     Theming Views      153B

10     Query Optimization      177B

11     Views API      185B

III: Panels

12     Introducing Panels      217B

13     Creating Panels      225B

14     Contexts, Relationships, and Arguments in Panels      257B

15     Panels Theming      275B

16     Site Deployment      291B

IV: Appendices

A     Other Useful Modules      303B

B     Reporting Issues      309B

C     Views API Handlers and Plugins      315B

Index      327B

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