Synopses & Reviews
Take your Drupal skills even further with valuable tricks for making site building truly efficient. In this concise guide—the third in a series by award-winning designer Dani Nordin—youll learn how to set up your own development environment, quickly update your modules, and use version control to protect yourself from bonehead mistakes.
Handle repetitive tasks with ease, avoid hours of frustration, and devote more time to pushing the envelope of Drupal design—just by picking up the basics of a few developer tools. Its much more than simple coding; its real, honest-to-goodness developer Ninja Magick.
- Learn basic commands and use them in Drupal on the command line
- Set up your local development environment, and learn ways to collaborate on code with others
- Download modules, themes, libraries, and more with Drush, the Drupal shell
- Use Git, the free version control system, and create a GitHub account
- Pack content types, views, and other functionality you use often into a custom module with Features
Synopsis
Tips and tricks to make your life easier as a Drupal designer. This concise book includes designer-friendly guides to Drush, Less CSS, Install Profiles, version control, and other topics that usually only developers know about.
About the Author
Dani Nordin is the founder of the zen kitchen, an independent user experience design and research practice focused on helping forward-thinking organizations and development shops create great things in Drupal. Her background runs the gamut from print design and branding to layout, site planning and user experience for the web, with a specialty in interaction design for content-heavy Drupal implementations. She has been an active member of Boston's Drupal community since 2008.
Table of Contents
Preface; Wait, What? Why?; A Note for Windows Users; The Designer's Coding Toolkit; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; About the Reviewers; Setting Up a Local Development Environment; Chapter 1: Setting Up a Local Development Environment and Installing Drupal; 1.1 Step 1: Install MAMP; 1.2 Step 2: Setting Up Your Main File Structure; 1.3 Step 3: Setting Up the Drupal files; 1.4 Step 4: Creating the Database; 1.5 Step 5: Install Drupal; Chapter 2: Working on the Command Line: Some Basic Commands; 2.1 Commands; 2.2 That Wasn't So Bad, Was It?; Chapter 3: Installing Drush; 3.1 Installing Drush; 3.2 Another Option: Creating a Symbolic Link to Drush; 3.3 Now the Fun Begins; 3.4 Putting This in Action: Installing Modules; Chapter 4: Getting Started with Version Control; 4.1 Master Versus Origin; 4.2 Setting Up Git for Your Workflow; 4.3 Step 1: Create an SSH Key; 4.4 Step 2: Install Git; 4.5 Step 3: Set Up Your Git Configuration; 4.6 Step 4: Set Up a GitHub Account; 4.7 Step 5: Create the Remote Repository; 4.8 Step 6: Set Up the Local Repository; 4.9 So What Happens on a Team?; 4.10 First Things First: The Git Workflow; 4.11 And There We Go; Using Features and Drush Make to Make Development Easier; Chapter 5: Using Features in Your Workflow; 5.1 Still More Awesomeness Awaits; Chapter 6: Making Drupal Easier: Working with Drush Make and Installation Profiles; 6.1 Step 1: Install Drush Make; 6.2 Why This Is Lovely; 6.3 Getting Started with Install Profiles; 6.4 So Here We Are;