Vernon Denny - Drupal 7 Webform Cookbook

Vernon Denny was born and bred in a small city called Klerksdorp in the north-west of South Africa. Vernon now lives in Johannesburg with his wife, daughter, and supercilious cat. Despite standing two meters tall in his thinnest socks he has a nervous apprehension of heights.

After explaining the vagaries of the insurance industry to an IBM iSeries computer in RPG and PHP during the typical working day, he loves to help out on the Webform issue queue on the Drupal website. In between all of this, he also keeps himself busy learning about the GNU/Linux operating system and the freedoms arising from the Free and Open Source Software movement.

When a computer keyboard is out of reach, Vernon is either playing games with his daughter, hiking with the family, or irritating them with his attempts to learn the guitar.

A massive thank you to Nathan Haug (also known as quicksketch) for making the Webform module what it is today. I do not know how you make the time, but like many others around the world, I am very, very grateful.

Dries Buytaert and the entire active Drupal community of coders, testers, maintainers, and users are lauded for their commitment to putting Drupal out there and maintaining its position as a high-quality, stable, and leading-edge web content management system.

Words cannot possibly express the depth of my gratitude to Sai Gamare, Dayan Hyames and Usha Iyer of Packt Publishing for their patient insistence that deadlines should be met. It was rough going for a while, but you guys really helped me see it through in the end!

Richard Carter is the Director at Richard Carter Consultancy Ltd (http://www.richardcarterconsultancy.com), an open source web software consultancy, and Creative Director at Peacock Carter Ltd (http://www.peacockcarter.co.uk), a web design and development agency, both based in the North East of England. He has helped clients around the world get to grips with open source software, including Directgov, NHS Choices, Business Link, University College Dublin, and the German Historical Institute London.

Richard is the author of MediaWiki Skins Design, Magento 1.3 Themes Design, Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook , and Magento 1.4 Themes Design . He has acted as a technical reviewer on MediaWiki 1.1 Beginner's Guide, Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers, Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 , and Drupal 7 Business Solutions , and is a co-founder of the Drupal North East user group (http://www.drupalnortheast.org.uk).

He blogs at http://www.earlgreyandbattenburg.co.uk and tweets nonsense at http://twitter.com/RichardCarter.

I would like to thank the author of the book and the wider Drupal community for dedicating time to help others learn Drupal, which has changed, for the better, beyond almost all recognition in the last few years.

Richard Eriksson has been a member of the Drupal community since 2004 (visit his profile at http://drupal.org/user/8791). Richard has worked on the community support and systems administration team at Bryght, the first commercial Drupal venture (later purchased by Raincity Studios), and later OpenRoad Communications, where he helped build video-intensive multilingual Drupal websites promoting video games. He also maintains an independent consultancy called Ethical Detergent specializing in Drupal maintenance and support. On Drupal.org, he maintains the Pirate and RSS Permissions modules, the Cherry Blossom Theme, and most recently, the Readability Button module. He writes occasionally on his blog, Just a Gwai Lo (http://justagwailo.com/).

He has also worked on the following books:

Drupal 6 Theming Cookbook

Drupal 7 Theming Cookbook

John K Murphy is a software industry veteran with more than 25 years' experience as a programmer and database administrator. A graduate of the University of West Virginia he began writing computer games in the 1980s before pursuing a career as a computer consultant. Over the years, John has enjoyed developing software in most major programming languages while striving to keep current with new technologies.

In his spare time, John enjoys scuba diving, skydiving, and piloting small planes. He lives with his wife and two children in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Jeff Smith grew up in Odon, Indiana before moving to Indianapolis. He has 15 plus years of experience in the IT Industry as well as 9 months experience as a .NET developer. He loves learning new technologies and dabbles quite a bit on the side.

He works for the Indiana Department of Workforce Development as an Application Developer.

He has reviewed the books CakePHP 1.3 Application Cookbook and Drupal 7 Business Solutions .

I would like to thank my girlfriend Dawn for understanding why I try to learn new technologies and review books. I would like to thank Packt for giving me an opportunity to help out on this book, the other two titles I have worked on, and I look forward to helping out on any books I can in the future.

Ravishankar Somasundaram has over six years of experience in providing solutions to clients across multiple sectors and domains. Being more passionate about learning and teaching, he also strongly believes that the sole purpose of learning is to make our minds think in different perspectives and facilitates the same in his training sessions through a blended learning approach mainly focused on how to learn to learn .

In his lower schoolings, apart from winning several prizes in science projects, he was awarded the title