Desarrollo Módulos Drupal 6

Drupal’s Building Blocks

Drupal’s Building Blocks
Quickly Building Web Sites with CCK, Views, and Panels

Earl Miles Lynette Miles
with Emma Jane Hogbin and Karen Stevenson

Upper Saddle River, NJ • Boston • Indianapolis • San Francisco New York • Toronto • Montreal • London • Munich • Paris • Madrid Capetown • Sydney • Tokyo • Singapore • Mexico City

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This page intentionally left blankContents at a Glance
Contents Foreword Preface
ix xvii xix xxiii xxiv

Acknowledgments About the Authors

I: Content Construction Kit
1 Introducing CCK and Nodes 2 Field Concepts 3 17 39 59 3

Deeper into Fields

4 Themes and CCK 5

CCK API

75

II: Views
6 Relational Databases 7 8 9 101

Creating Views

109 137

Arguments, Exposed Filters, and Relationships Theming Views153 177

10 Query Optimization 11 Views API 185

III: Panels
12 Introducing Panels 13 Creating Panels 217

225 257

14 Context, Relationships, and Arguments in Panels 15 Panels Theming 16 Site Deployment

275
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Contents at a Glance

IV: Appendices
A Other Useful Modules B 303

Reporting Issues

309 315

C Views API Handlers and Plugins

Index

327...