Programming Drupal 7 Entities -- Table of Contents -- Programming Drupal 7 entities -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgement -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Using the example code -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Understanding Entities -- Introducing entities -- Entity and solution modules -- Introducing entity types, bundles, and fields -- Types -- Bundles -- Fields -- Drupal core entity structure -- Powerful entity use cases -- User profiles -- Internationalization -- Commerce products -- Our use case -- Summary -- 2. Developing with Entity Metadata Wrappers -- Introducing entity metadata wrappers -- Creating an entity metadata wrapper object -- Standard entity properties -- Entity introspection -- Using an entity metadata wrapper -- Create -- Drush commands -- Code snippet -- Retrieve -- Drush commands -- Code snippet -- Update -- Drush commands -- Code snippet -- Delete -- Drush commands -- Code snippet -- Safely using text property values -- Self-imposed limitation of entity programming -- References -- A note about EntityFieldQuery -- Summary -- 3. Developing with Non-fieldable Entities -- What are non-fieldable entities? -- File entities -- Vocabulary entities -- Recipe site vocabularies -- Summary -- 4. Developing with Fieldable Entities -- What are fieldable entities? -- Node entities -- Comment entities -- Term entities -- Summary -- 5. Developing with Fields -- Field types -- Single-value and multi-value fields -- Structure fields -- Field type-specific code -- File and image fields -- Link fields -- Datetime fields.

Putting it all together -- Converting the recipe content type to use fields -- Creating fields -- Exporting fields to a feature -- Copying the code to the recipe module -- Tweaking recipe.module and recipe.info -- Upgrading recipe module -- Summary -- 6. Developing with Field Collections -- Before Drupal 7 -- Creating a field collection field -- Field collection entities -- Adding a field collection to a node -- Attaching a field collection to a content type -- Exporting field collection and fields -- Copying the code to the recipe module -- Tweaking recipe.module -- Updating code is unnecessary -- Summary -- 7. Expose Local Entities -- Motivation for exposing entities -- Fast track your data exposure -- Allow fields on your entity -- Give it multiple bundles -- Administration interface and exportability -- Storing bundle information -- Exposing bundle information and handling access rights -- Adding the support code -- Summary -- 8. Expose Remote Entities -- Introducing the Remote Entity API -- Requirements for exposing remote entities -- Implementing remote entity exposure -- Database schema -- Connection code -- Remote query code -- Entity exposure code -- Entity metadata API integration -- Import and administration code -- Running -- Adding write support -- Customization for your use case -- Summary -- Index.