Take advantage of Drupal's vast collection of community-contributed modules and discover how they make this web framework unique and valuable. With this guide, you'll learn how to combine modules in interesting ways (with minimal code-wrangling) to develop several community-driven websites - including a job posting board, photo gallery, online store, product review database, and event calendar.
The second edition focuses on Drupal 7, the latest version of this open source system. Each project spans an entire chapter, with step-by-step "recipes" to help you build out the precise functionality the site requires. With this book, developers new to Drupal will gain experience through a hands-on introduction, and experienced Drupal developers will learn real-world best practices. Learn Drupal's concepts and building blocks, and how everything works together Hit the ground running - build your first Drupal site hands-on Explore solutions that meet each project's requirements, and discover why specific modules were selected Understand the projects through case studies, including the client's needs and desires Learn how to configure modules with a bird's-eye view of how they work Discover new modules, including Drupal Commerce, Media, and Workbench

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Addison Berry takes part in many aspects of both the Drupal software and community. She contributes patches to core Drupal, maintains several contributed modules, and is active in various mentoring programs such as the Drupal Dojo group and Google's Highly Open Participation (GHOP) program. Addison helps maintain drupal.org, and is a permanent member of the Drupal Association General Assembly. Her work focuses on improving Drupal documentation and she has worked to provide a wide range of video and written tutorials covering all aspects of Drupal from community involvement to code. Addi is known as "add1sun" on drupal.org. Angela Byron is an Open Source evangelist who lives and breathes Drupal. She got her start as a Google Summer of Code student in 2005 and since then has completely immersed herself in the Drupal community. Her work includes core coding and patch review, creating and contributing modules and themes, testing and quality assurance efforts within the project, improving documentation, and providing user support on forums and IRC. Angela is on the Board of Directors for the Drupal Association, and helps drive community growth by leading initiatives to help get new contributors involved. She is a sought-after lecturer on many themes, especially the topic of women in Open Source. Angie is known as "webchick" on drupal.org.

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With the recipes in this book, you'll take full advantage of the vast collection of community-contributed modules that make the Drupal web framework useful and unique. Learn how to combine modules in interesting ways to develop a variety of community-driven websites. You get case studies that outline specific requirements for several projects -- a wiki, publishing workflow site, photo gallery, product review site, online store, user group site, and more. This second edition offers through coverage of Drupal 7.