Drupal's Building Blocks: Quickly Building Web Sites with CCK, Views, and Panels (Paperback)

“Even if you’re already a seasoned Drupal user of CCK, Views, or Panels, I’ve no doubt that this book will provide you with several new techniques and methods for getting the most out of these extremely essential modules. It certainly has for me.”

—Dries Buytaert, founder and project lead of Drupal, and CTO of Acquia 

With Drupal, Web professionals can create full-featured Web sites with just a few clicks. Drupal’s core is compact and well documented, but much of Drupal’s immense power lies elsewhere—in external modules. Drupal’s Building Blocks is an authoritative tutorial, reference, and cookbook for Drupal’s most valuable modules.

The authors are Drupal insiders who’ve spent years creating and supporting these modules—Earl Miles, developer of the Views and Panels modules, and Lynette Miles, Drupal documentation team member. They’ve brought together indispensable information you won’t find anywhere else, as well as extensive sample “recipe” code designed for easy adaptation and reuse. Learn how to

• Use Content Construction Kit (CCK) to customize your data input forms around your needs
• Improve site flexibility with Drupal’s node system
• Add optional field types, including PHP-based fields
• Customize themes to display data more attractively and legibly
• Build powerful Views query displays
• Integrate with SQL databases
• Customize Views with relationships, arguments, and filters
• Optimize query performance
• Add custom styles with the Panels module
• Maintain full control over sites as you deploy into production

This book will help you create more powerful, flexible, usable, and manageable Web sites—whether you’re a Web developer, designer, administrator, architect, or consultant.

「即使您已經是一位經驗豐富的 Drupal 使用者，熟悉 CCK、Views 或 Panels，我毫不懷疑這本書將為您提供幾種新的技巧和方法，以充分利用這些非常重要的模組。對我來說，它確實如此。」- Dries Buytaert，Drupal 的創始人和項目負責人，以及 Acquia 的 CTO。

使用 Drupal，網站專業人員只需點擊幾下即可創建功能齊全的網站。Drupal 的核心緊湊且有良好的文件，但 Drupal 的巨大威力主要來自外部模組。《Drupal 的建設模塊》是一本權威的教程、參考書和食譜，介紹了 Drupal 最有價值的模組。

作者是 Drupal 內部人員，他們花了多年的時間創建和支持這些模組 - Earl Miles 是 Views 和 Panels 模組的開發者，Lynette Miles 是 Drupal 文件團隊成員。他們匯集了您在其他地方找不到的不可或缺的信息，以及大量的示例「食譜」代碼，方便您進行簡單的適應和重用。學習如何：

- 使用內容建構套件（CCK）根據您的需求自定義數據輸入表單
- 通過 Drupal 的節點系統提高網站的靈活性
- 添加可選的字段類型，包括基於 PHP 的字段
- 自定義主題以更具吸引力和可讀性地顯示數據
- 構建強大的 Views 查詢顯示
- 與 SQL 數據庫集成
- 通過關係、參數和過濾器自定義 Views
- 優化查詢性能
- 使用 Panels 模組添加自定義樣式
- 在部署到生產環境時保持對網站的完全控制

無論您是網站開發人員、設計師、管理員、架構師還是顧問，本書都將幫助您創建更強大、靈活、易用和可管理的網站。

附帶的網站包含本書中介紹的所有示例、代碼和主題。