Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery -- Table of Contents -- Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery -- Credits -- About the author -- About the reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code for the book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Drupal and JavaScript -- Do you speak...? -- PHP -- SQL -- HTML -- CSS -- XML -- JavaScript -- Drupal's architecture -- The Drupal Core -- The Theme Engine -- Modules -- Users, nodes, and blocks -- Users -- Blocks -- Nodes -- Drupal JavaScript development tools -- A good editor -- Firebug -- The Drupal Devel package -- Summary -- 2. Working with JavaScript in Drupal -- How Drupal handles JavaScript -- Where Drupal JavaScript comes from? -- Project overview: printer-friendly page content -- The printer script -- Drupal coding standards -- Stylistic differences between PHP and JavaScript -- The first lines -- The print() function -- Creating a theme -- Full themes and subthemes -- Creating a theme: first steps -- Creating a theme directory -- Creating the .info file -- Adding files to the theme -- The CSS file -- Adding JavaScript to a theme -- Overriding a template -- Adding the script file -- Summary -- 3. jQuery: Do More with Drupal -- jQuery: the write less, do more library -- A first jQuery script -- Getting jQuery -- Starting with a basic HTML document -- Querying with jQuery (and the Firebug console) -- Bye bye, jQuery() -- hello () -- Doing more with jQuery -- Not every function returns a jQuery object -- Using jQuery in Drupal -- Don't do it yourself! -- Project: rotating sticky node teasers -- The StickyRotate functions -- The init() function -- The periodicRefresh() function -- Adding an event handler with jQuery -- A brief look backward -- Summary -- 4. Drupal Behaviors -- The drupal.js library.

Drupal JavaScript behaviors -- Defining a behavior to handle repeatable events -- Telling Drupal to attach behaviors -- Context and behaviors: bug potential -- Project: collapsing blocks -- Utilities -- Checking capabilities with Drupal.jsEnabled -- The Drupal.checkPlain() function (and the jQuery alternative) -- The Drupal.parseJson() function -- The Drupal.encodeURIComponent() function -- The Drupal.getSelection() function -- Project: a simple text editor -- The main behavior -- Step 1: find text areas that need processing -- Step 2: add event handlers -- Step 3: attach the button bar -- Summary -- 5. Lost in Translations -- Translations and drupal.js -- Translation and languages -- Turning on translation support -- Getting and installing translations -- Configuring languages -- Adding the language -- Configuring languages -- Using the translation functions -- The Drupal.t() function -- The Drupal.formatPlural() function -- Adding a translated string -- Project: weekend countdown -- Translating the project's strings -- Changing a translation file -- Summary -- 6. JavaScript Theming -- Theming in PHP, theming in JavaScript -- The Drupal.theme() function -- Project: menus and blocks -- Adding a block with a menu in it -- Theming a block -- Theming a menu -- The JavaScript theming module -- Theming tables -- Sending notifications to the user -- Adding links -- Project: templates for JavaScript -- The node template -- From a template to a system: what next? -- A template system -- Theming with templates -- Using the template system -- A word of warning -- Summary -- 7. AJAX and Drupal Web Services -- AJAX, JSON, XHR, AHAH, and Web 2.0 -- Web application and Web 2.0 -- The position of AJAX in Web 2.0 -- Getting technical -- Move over, XML -- Project: web clips with RSS and AJAX -- Really Simple Syndication (RSS) -- The project goals.

Creating the web clips tool -- The WebClips behavior -- The WebClips.showItem() function -- Project: real-time comment notifications -- Displaying comments as notifications -- Installing Views and Views Datasource -- Creating a JSON view -- The comment watcher -- The comment watcher behavior -- The CommentWatcher.check() function -- Theming the comment notification -- Managing cookies -- Summary -- 8. Building a Module -- How modules work -- The module structure -- The directory -- The .info file -- The .module file -- Where do modules go? -- Project: creating a JavaScript loader module -- Creating the module directory -- A JavaScript sample -- The module's .info file -- A custom addition -- The .module file -- The jsloader_help() function -- The jsloader_init() function -- Project: the editor revisited -- First step: creating the module -- The CSS file -- The bettereditor.module file -- The bettereditor.js script -- The editor() behavior -- The insertTag() function -- The addTag() theme -- The button() theme function -- The buttonBar() theme function -- A last question -- Summary -- 9. Integrating and Extending -- Project: autocompletion and search -- The theory -- Our plan -- First step: creating the taxonomy -- The new module -- The search autocomplete JavaScript -- Project: jQuery UI -- What is jQuery UI? -- Getting jQuery UI -- The accordion module -- The .info and .module files -- The accordion JavaScript -- Project: writing a jQuery plug-in -- The plug-in code -- A brief introduction to closures -- The divWrap() function -- Summary -- Index.