The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 is the most comprehensive book for building web sites using the powerful and extensible Drupal content management framework.

Written by active community members and contributors (some of the "brightest and most innovative minds in the Drupal community," to quote Angela Byron, Drupal 7 maintainer), the Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 covers the basics then quickly advances to in-depth exploration of the functionality and tools that make Drupal so powerful for building web applications. Just as important, this book provides the reader with a guide to participating in the Drupal community: an international, committed, rapidly growing community of themers, developers, and open source advocates who write the modules, test the code, and work ceaselessly to make Drupal great. The release of Drupal 7, with its dramatic improvements in usability and system architecture, will take Drupal to a new level of popularity, and this book will help give you the foundation and scaffolding to grow with Drupal.

With The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7, you will be able to:

Plan and build a complete Drupal site with core alone.
Extend Drupal's functionality by selecting from thousands of modules.
Make your Drupal site look like anything you want with theming and jQuery.
Extend Drupal by coding your own modules.
Install Drupal in many environments.
Use essential tools such as Drush and Git to make your life easier.
Contribute to the Drupal community as an organizer or a coder.

Who this book is for Anyone who is serious about getting better at Drupal.
Table of Contents

Building a Drupal 7 Site
Essential Tools: Drush and Git
Building Dynamic Pages Using Views
There's a Module for That
Creating Community Web Sites with Organic Groups
Security in Drupal
Updating Drupal
Extending Your Site
Drupal Community: Getting Help and Getting Involved
Planning and Managing a Drupal Project
Documenting for End Users and the Production Team
Development Environment
Putting a Site Online and Deploying New Features
Developing from a Human Mindset
Theming
Advanced Theming
jQuery
Introduction to Module Development
Using Drupal's APIs in a Module
Refining Your Module
Porting Modules to Drupal 7
Writing Project-Specific Code
Introduction to Functional Testing with Simpletest
Writing a Major Module
Drupal Commerce
Drush
Scaling Drupal
Spice Your Content Up with Tasty Semantics
The Menu System and the Path Into Drupal
Under the Hood: Inside Drupal When It Displays a Page
Search and Apache Solr Integration
User Experience
Completing a Site: The Other 90%
Drupal Distributions and Installation Profiles
Drupal's Story: A Chain of Many Unexpected Events
Now You're in Business: Making a Living with Drupal
Maintaining a Project
Contributing to the Community
Appendix A: Updating a Drupal Site from 6 to 7
Appendix B: Profiling Drupal and Optimizing Performance
Appendix C: Page Rendering and Altering
Appendix D: Visual Design in Drupal
Appendix E: Accessibility
Appendix F: Windows Development Environment
Appendix G: Installing Drupal on Ubuntu
Appendix H: Mac OS X Installation
Appendix I: Setting Up a Drupal Environment with the Acquia Dev Desktop