Drupal. open source^ community experience distilled. 7 Business Solutions. Build powerful website features for your business. Trevor James.

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1 Drupal 7 Business Solutions Build powerful website features for your business Trevor James Mark Noble PUBLISHING o open source^ community experience distilled - BIRMINGHAM MUMBAI

2 Preface 1 Chapter 1: Planning our Site and Setting up Drupal 7 Artisan Bakers Collective 8 Plans for the Artisan Bakers Collective website 8 Selecting a foundation for the Artisan Bakers Collective site 10 Simple static web pages 10 Key advantages 10 Key disadvantages 11 Fully-customized site with PHP and MySQL 11 Key advantages 11 Key disadvantages 12 Drupal content management system 12 Benefits of building with Drupal 13 Disadvantages of Drupal 14 Deciding on Drupal 15 Getting started with Drupal 15 Artisan Bakers Collective on the web 24 Summary 24 Chapter 2: Creating the Artisan Bakers Collective Website 25 The Core Drupal 7 look and feel 26 Checking the site's status report 26 Cron 29 Clean URLs 29 Drupal core content basic pages and articles 30 Adding a Basic page 31 Editing a page 35 Security considerations 36

3 Street presence, setting up the home page 40 Blog style home pages 40 Adding images to your content 41 URL path settings 42 Using path aliases 43 Creating multiple aliases for a page 43 Automatically creating page aliases 45 Creating a traditional home page 48 Deleting a page 50 Getting around setting up navigation 52 Building menus 52 Types of menus 52 Adding a page to a menu 54 Setting the order of menu items 56 Enabling core modules and installing contributed modules 58 Installing contributed modules 59 Installing the Menu Block module 60 Using the Menu Block module 62 Summary 66 Chapter 3: Adding Products and Services 67 Building a custom content type 67 Introduction to content types 68 Designing the menu item Steps 70 Creating the content type Steps 73 Adding a price to the menu item Steps 79 Adding ingredients, dietary concerns and meals fields Steps 82 Adding seasonal information to the menu item Additional modules needed 84 Steps 84 Adding an image Steps 87 Alternative solutions 89 68

4 Controlling access to the content type Steps 89 Using taxonomy to categorize content 90 Create a vocabulary for Type of Baked Good Additional modules needed 91 Steps 91 Adding terms to the vocabulary Additional modules needed 93 Steps 93 Adding the Term reference field Steps 95 Adding content with the content type 96 Creating a new Breads and Pastries item Steps 97 Customizing the display of the content type nodes 98 Modifying the order of fields and the display of the field labels Steps 98 Summary 100 Chapter 4: Interacting with Customers and Visitors 101 Working with users 101 Allowing user registration Steps 102 Extending the user signup form 104 Create a VIP role Steps 107 Assign users to the VIP role Steps 109 Working with comments 109 Enable comments for a content type and node Adding new comments Steps 111 Manage comments Steps 113

5 Tabic of Contents Notification of new user comments on site Additional modules needed 114 Steps for creating the action 114 Steps for creating the new comments trigger 117 Set up user ratings for content 119 Add Fivestar content ratings to a node 119 Additional modules needed 119 Steps 119 Adding a rate this node block Steps 122 Change the display of the ratings Steps 123 Working with polls 123 Create a poll 123 Additional modules needed 124 Steps 124 Adding the poll to the home page 127 Goai 127 Steps 127 Submitting a poll 129 Goai 129 Steps 129 Viewing poll results Steps 129 Adding user surveys 130 Creating a user survey Additional modules needed 130 Steps 130 Protecting the survey with Captchas Additional modules needed 135 Steps 135 Answering a survey Steps 138 Viewing survey results Submissions view 139 Analysis view

6 Table view 140 Download view 140 Clear 141 Summary 141 Chapter 5: Creating a Company Blog 143 Creating biogs 143 Setting up the blog system Additional modules needed 144 Steps 144 Adding a new blog post Steps 146 Adding moderation for blog posts Additional modules needed 148 Creating the moderator role 149 Setting up moderation for the blog posts 149 Automatically moderating content based on keywords Additional modules needed 151 Steps 151 Enabling customers to read your blogs 153 Displaying a list of available blogs Additional modules needed 153 Creating a blog menu 154 Creating a blog block 155 Creating an RSS feed for newsreaders Additional modules needed 155 Steps 156 Adding subscription buttons Additional modules needed 157 Steps 157 Including information from other blogs 159 Allowing your site to read content Additional modules needed 159 Steps 159 Viewing feeds Steps 165 [v]

7 Automatically updating your feeds with 167 cron jobs Steps 169 Additional ways of setting up cron Summary Chapter 6: Newsletters and Calendars Creating newsletters 171 Creating a newsletter category Additional modules needed: 171 Steps 172 Viewing your newsletter categories 175 Adding newsletters 177 Simplenews module settings 178 General and newsletter configuration 178 Subscription and Send mail configuration 181 Creating a new issue of the newsletter Steps 183 Allowing users to sign up for the newsletter Steps 189 Managing sign ups Steps 192 Importing and exporting subscriptions Steps 194 Adding a calendar 195 Tweaking our date and time settings Additional modules needed 196 Steps 196 Adding an event content type and custom date/time field Steps 199 Adding events to the site Steps 203 Displaying events on a calendar Additional modules needed 204 Steps 205 Summary 210

8 Chapter 7: Sharing and Consuming with YouTube, Flickr, Gooqle Maps, and Twitter 211 Integrating your site with other web content 211 Online baking class 212 Embedding a YouTube video with a filter Additional modules needed 212 Steps 213 Creating a YouTube playlist and display a random video Additional modules needed 219 Steps 219 Flickr integration: Another alternative for images and sfideshows 222 Embedding media from Flickr Additional modules needed 222 Steps 222 Using the Flickr module to insert photos using a filter Additional modules needed 228 Steps 229 Flickr module blocks 237 Posting your site's content to Twitter 242 Twitter when you post Additional modules needed 243 Steps 243 Posting to Twitter 248 Summary 252 Chapter 8: Freebies and Downloads 253 Adding downloads and PDFs to the website 254 Controlling how files are downloaded Additional modules needed 254 Steps 254 Allowing files to be uploaded to the website Additional modules needed 256 Steps 256 Configuring files for secure private download 260 Sending the correct file types to a user Additional modules needed 261 Steps 261

9 Table ofcontents Forcing a file to be downloaded Additional modules needed 264 Steps 264 Configuring Printer-friendly pages in Drupal Additional modules needed 265 Steps 265 Automatically generating PDF files for a page Steps 266 Summary 273 Chapter 9: Online Orders and Payments 275 The Drupal Commerce module Additional modules needed 276 Download and install Commerce 276 Setting up your Store with Commerce 279 Adding a content type in Drupal to display our Commerce product types 283 Adding Products using Commerce 288 Checking on orders as the site administrator 294 Commerce Store Configuration 297 Summary 298 Chapter 10: Image Galleries and Slideshows 299 Using Views to build image galleries 300 Installing and Configuring the Views module Additional modules needed 300 Steps 300 Add some photos 302 Configuring Imagecache 303 Configuring Image Galleries with Views 305 Setting up slideshows with Lightbox and Views Additional modules needed 311 Steps 311 General settings 312 Slideshow settings 312 HTML content settings 313 Automatic image handling settings 313 Adding a Lightbox slideshow to our Photo gallery 313 Summary 316

10 Chapter 11: Maintaining and Optimizing your Drupal Site 317 Website backups 317 Manually backing up a site Steps 318 Setting up automatic MySQL backups Additional modules needed 323 Steps 323 Restoring a site from a backup Additional modules needed 328 Steps 328 Optimizing your Drupal site and its database 328 Optimizing the database tables Additional modules needed 329 Steps 329 Using caching to improve performance Additional modules needed 332 Steps 332 Creating content workflows and revisions 334 Creating content revisions Additional modules needed 334 Steps 334 Comparing content revisions Additional modules needed 336 Steps 337 Upgrading to new versions of Drupal 337 Checking for new updates to Drupal and modules Additional modules needed 338 Steps 338 Upgrading Drupal contributed modules Additional modules needed 339 Steps 340 Upgrading to a new major or minor release of Drupal core Additional modules needed 343 Steps 343 Summary 344 Index 345