What you will learn from this book Contents at a Glance - CHAPTER 1: How Drupal Works
- CHAPTER 2: Writing a Module
- CHAPTER 3: Module-Specific Settings
- CHAPTER 4: The Menu System
- CHAPTER 5: Working with Databases
- CHAPTER 6: Working with Users
- CHAPTER 7: Working with Nodes
- CHAPTER 8: The Theme System
- CHAPTER 9: Working with Blocks
- CHAPTER 10: The Form API
- CHAPTER 11: Manipulating User Input: The Filter System
- CHAPTER 12: Searching and Indexing Content
- CHAPTER 13: Working with Files
- CHAPTER 14: Working with Taxonomy
- CHAPTER 15: Caching
- CHAPTER 16: Sessions
- CHAPTER 17: Using jQuery
- CHAPTER 18: Localization
- CHAPTER 19: XML-RPC
- CHAPTER 20: Writing Secure Code
- CHAPTER 21: Development Best Practices
About the Authors JOHN VANDYK began his work with computers on a black Bell & Howell Apple II by printing out and poring over the BASIC code for Little Brick Out in order to increase the paddle width. Before discovering Drupal, John was involved with the UserLand Frontier community and wrote his own content management system (with Matt Westgate) using Ruby.
John’s day job is in the entomology department at Iowa State University of Science and Technology where he is a systems analyst and adjunct assistant professor. His master’s thesis focused on cold tolerance of deer ticks, and his doctoral dissertation was on the effectiveness of photographically created threedimensional virtual insects on undergraduate learning.
John lives with his wife Tina in Ames, Iowa. They homeschool their six children, who have become used to bedtime stories like “The Evil HTTP Request and the Heroic Drupal Session Handler.” MATT WESTGATE has been disassembling anything he could get his hands on since he discovered he had opposable thumbs, so it was a natural transition for Matt to enter the world of computers and start hacking open source software.
Matt is a cofounder of Lullabot, an education and consulting firm dedicated to helping people learn how to build and architect communitydriven web sites. Lullabot has helped the BBC, Participant Productions, Sony, MTV, and the George Lucas Educational Foundation shine a little brighter online.
Matt lives with his wife and two ferrets and is currently studying to become a Big Mind facilitator. |
