The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 is the most comprehensive book to build a website using Drupal content management framework robust and extensible. Written by an active community member and contributor (some of the "brightest minds and most innovative in the Drupal community," to quote Angela Byron, the Drupal 7 maintainer), Drupal 7 Definitive Guide covers the basics and then quickly progress in-depth exploration of the functions and tools which makes Drupal very powerful for building web applications. Drupal 7 release, with dramatic improvements in usability and system architecture, will take Drupal to a new level of popularity, and this book will help provide a 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 alone.Extend Drupal core functionality by choosing from thousands modules.Make your Drupal site look like whatever you want with Drupal Drupal theming and jQuery.Extend modules.Install with your own coding in many environments. Use essential tools like Git Drush and to make your life easier.Contribute to Drupal as a community organizer or coder.Who this book is for anyone who is serious about getting better in Drupal. Table of Contents Building Site Equipment Important Drupal 7:? Drush and Git? Develop the Mindset of Human Theming Introduction to jQuery Advanced Theming Drupal Module Development Using APIs in your Module Module Processing Module Ported to Drupal 7 Writing Special Project Code Introduction to Functional Testing with Simpletest Writing Drupal Modules Drupal Scaling Drush Major Trade Spice Up Your Content with the Semantic Tasty Menu System and the Road to Drupal Under the Hood: Inside the Drupal Current Shows Page and Apache Solr Search Integration User Experience Complete Site:? The distribution of 90% and other Drupal Installation Profiles Drupal Acts:? A Chain of Unexpected Events Many Now your Business: Creating a Life with Retaining Drupal Community Project Contributes to Appendix A:? Updating Drupal sites 6-7 Appendix B: Profile of Drupal and Optimizing Performance Appendix C: Rendering page and change?