By Marjorie Roswell
ISBN-10: 1847196969
ISBN-13: 9781847196965
Ninety four recipes to advance customized content material monitors on your Drupal website
- Display specific sorts of content material in distinctive and compelling methods in your Drupal internet site
- Enhance your site with calendars, timelines, galleries, maps, podcasts, perspectives Fusion, and more
- Indispensable assets for Drupal five directors - Drupal management Menu, perspectives Bulk Operations, ModuleInfo, and Editable Fields modules
- More than ninety recipes - choose those that paintings most sensible to your net site
In element
The Drupal View modules provide you with flexibility and freedom to customise the exhibit of your internet site's content material. even though there are greater than a hundred views-enabled modules, few web site directors use Drupal perspectives to its complete strength.
This e-book will help you detect the fullest capability of this strong source through supplying a large choice of robust recipes for growing and exhibiting a large choice of perspectives - crucial classics you are going to use time and again to cutting edge show equipment that might make your Drupal web site stand out. choose and select those you wish to organize to your site.
In this booklet you'll find ninety-four recipes to create a big variety of perspectives. The checklist comprises occasion listings, interactive calendars and timelines, maps, proximity seek, podcasting, carousels, perspectives Fusion, and lots of extra. additionally, you will discover default perspectives, perspectives with CCK, and grasp numerous how one can affiliate perspectives with comparable content material.
Most humans contemplate perspectives for visitors. yet perspectives can be convenient for web site directors. you'll get to understand the perspectives Bulk Operations module, besides Editable Fields, and perspectives customized Fields. (You'll most likely ask yourself why you by no means used them before!)
If you need to take perspectives to the following point, the booklet includes a code-rich bankruptcy on theming. besides the fact that, you'll find many of the recipes specified by way of the writer don't require any unique coding in any respect.
As you move during the recipes, you'll be immersed in such Drupal perspectives issues as fields, arguments, filters, uncovered filters, sorting, kind plug-ins, formatters, cloning and copying perspectives.
Because Drupal is a global and ever adapting approach, the writer additionally contains nice assistance and assets for navigating the web Drupal neighborhood and increasing your wisdom of the recipes.
Finally, there's an intensive Appendix, together with listings of all default perspectives, formatters and magnificence plug-ins for Drupal five, besides a labeled checklist of patches.
What you are going to research from this ebook?
- Master the perspectives consumer Interface
- Create perspectives arguments
- Implement and create default perspectives for fresh reviews, the frontpage, staff listings, and more
- Explore quite a few how one can affiliate perspectives with similar content
- Display occasion listings, calendars, and timelines
- Make website management more straightforward utilizing numerous management modules
- Enhance your site with Google Map instruments, YouTube video bar, photograph gallery, audio, and perspectives speedy Search
- Enable your clients to flag and bookmark content material for later viewing
- Incorporate perspectives into panels and tabs
- Create a listing of obtainable subject services, and study a few key debugging strategies
- Use topic overrides and CSS to create extra appealing views
- Fix the long-standing taxonomy time period malicious program, and the physique box perspectives show issue
- Create and follow patches
- Create a few beneficial browser buttons and seek plug-ins to facilitate discovering details online
Approach
This publication provides you with an extended record of robust recipes. decide on those that fit your wishes and use them via step by step directions. many of the recipes are code-free, yet a few of the recipes include code snippets.
Who this ebook is written for?
This booklet is essentially written for Drupal web site developers, directors, and themers who are looking to advance customized content material screens utilizing perspectives. it may be utilized by an individual who has a Drupal five website, together with unique website builders in addition to those that have inherited a Drupal five website.
Some wisdom of HTML and CSS is needed; personal home page fundamentals should be convenient for a few of the recipes.