Pro Drupal 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.

1.How Drupal Works 2.Getting Started: Your First Module 3.Module-Specific Settings 4.The Menu/Callback Mapping System 5.Working with Databases 6.Working with Users 7.The Node System 8.The Theme System 9.The Block System 10.Working with Forms 11.Manipulating User Input: the Filter System 12.Searching and Indexing Content 13.Working with Files 14.Working with Taxonomy 15.Caching 16.Sessions 17.Using AJAX 18.Internationalization 19.XMLRPC 20.Writing Secure Code 21.Development Best Practices 22.Optimizing Drupal 23.Appendix 1: Database Dictionary 24.Appendix 2: Common Tasks 25.Appendix 3: Resources