Pro Drupal 7 Development

John K. VanDyk has been a Drupal developer since 2004. In 2005, he organized the first Drupal conference in Antwerp, Belgium, with Drupal founder Dries Buytaert. John has contributed several modules to Drupal including the actions, workflow, publish, subscribe, and pubcookie modules and has been instrumental in the design of Drupal's Content Construction Kit. John's day job is as an entomology professor and systems analyst at Iowa State University, where he teaches undergraduate courses about insects. In his spare time, when not hacking on Drupal, John enjoys squash hunting and raising children.

How Drupal Works.- Writing a Module.- Hooks, Actions, and Triggers.- The Menu System.- Working with Databases.- Working with Users.- Working with Nodes.- Working with Fields.- The Theme System.- Working with Blocks.- The Form API.- Manipulating User Input: The Filter System.- Searching and Indexing Content.- Working with Files.- Working with Taxonomy.- Caching.- Sessions.- Using jQuery.- Localization and Translation.- XML-RPC.- Writing Secure Code.- Development Best Practices.- Optimizing Drupal.- Installation Profiles.- Testing.