Technical Introduction to Drupal e-book

This e-book will be available in December 2010 for FREE!

Drupal is a modular system. By breaking up responsibilities into different parts, such as modules, distinct parts of Drupal are responsible for different aspects of your site's functionality. Providing individual user accounts and passwords, displaying forms, storing and displaying content are all examples of discrete functionality. Similar to how different parts of the brain come together to provide our overall mental function, the components responsible for these pieces of functionality communicate with one another and all come together to make up an interactive website.

This book will provide a technical overview of Drupal.

Contents

Part 1: Drupal is a Modular System

Part 2: Modularity in Action
The Menu System
The Form API
Node: The Basic Unit of Content
Content types
Drupal's Blog Module
Filters and Input Formats
Weights
Drupal as a Modular System: Partial Review

Part 3: CCK and Taxonomy

Part 4: Views and Panels