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Pankaj Sharma is a senior software engineer with a multinational IT firm in Noida, India. He has more than five years of developing experience in Perl, PHP, and CMS (WordPress, Drupal). Besides these technologies, he has also worked on AJAX, JavaScript, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. He has developed scalable websites for some of the world's leading companies in FMCG and the media and entertainment domain. He completed his degree (BSc.) in 2003 and post-graduate Master's degree (MCA) in 2007 in Dehradun. His interests include Cloud Computing and Big Data and his hobbies include writing, reading, travelling, and delving into philosophy.

I would like to express deep gratitude to God, my 'guiding light' and inspiration. I would like to thank my brothers Neeraj Sharma and Dheeraj Sharma for their valuable suggestions and inputs. Thanks to my parents, Mr. and Mrs. Suresh Chand Sharma, as well for their unconditional love and support.

Pradeep Saran is the founder of Devsaran (http://devsaran.com/), a Bangalore-based software development startup that specializes in developing modern web applications. His primary focus is frontend development and web application development.

He has been very active in the Drupal open source community. He has developed and maintains contributed modules and themes on drupal.org. His Drupal user account can be found at https://drupal.org/user/1031208.

I would like to thank my family and friends for their support in all of my endeavors. I would also like to thank Packt Publishing for providing me with the opportunity to do something useful. Thanks also to the Drupal community, whose willingness to share their knowledge and advice has become an invaluable asset.

Anton Sidashin is the CEO and, at the same time, the developer of a small Drupal agency, Pixeljets.com, which specializes in building beautiful Drupal projects and themesboth commercial and open source. The core of the agency is Anton and his brother Oleg, and there is also a team of Drupal and Symfony2 ninjas who help these brothers a lot.

He has been working with Drupal since the release of its 4.5 version in 2005, when he fell in love with the flexibility and power of this CMF.

He is a Zend-certified PHP5 engineer and he also worked as the senior architect of CS-Cart 2 e-commerce solutions back in 2007-2008.

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Preface

This book will describe the relevant steps used to create Drupal themes from raw HTML in a simple and lucid manner and save the energy and time wasted in irrelevant tasks.

What this book covers

Understanding Drupal jargon , covers the commonly used Drupal terminologies that are essential for theme development in Drupal. The heart of Drupal themes and theme engines will also be explained in this chapter.

Understanding Drupal's theme structure (Simple) , covers the names of Drupal templates and pages and their meaning/work. Drupal's default themes will be explained here.

Configuring raw HTML in the Drupal environment (Simple) , explains how an HTML file is configured in the Drupal environment using the knowledge acquired in the preceding two sections.

Breaking down HTML in parts (Intermediate) , explains how to break down HTML regions of Drupal theme such as header, footer, and content.

Populating the Drupal theme with dynamic content (Advanced) , explains the prerequisites to use Drupal template variables and how to use them.

Theme how tos (Advanced) , introduces the commonly used code in Drupal theme development, which will save lot of time and energy.

What you need for this book

To run the examples in the book, the following software will be required:

• XAMPP or WAMP: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
• Drupal: https://drupal.org/download

Who this book is for

This book is useful for developers who are new to Drupal. It's assumed that you have some experience in HTML,PHP, and CSS .Readers are expected to have the PHP (LAMP/WAMP) environment ready and working to install Drupal. It is assumed that the user is aware how to install Drupal. A little bit of familiarity with CMS is also expected from the user. Rest of the things have been taken care of in the book.