Hour 14. Working with Views
What You’ll Learn in This Hour:
• Explore Built-In Views for the Front Page
• Build Views for Database Queries
• Explore View Interfaces, Such as Pagers
• Let Users Control View Selections
Introduction
Drupal is built on the very stable and flexible base of a modern relational database (most frequently, it is MySQL, but others are also supported). Relational databases store, retrieve, and manipulate data with remarkable speed and efficiency. However, a challenge for the nearly half-century of database use has been how to make the creation and manipulation of database structures (schemas) accessible to nonprogrammer types. A companion challenge over the same span of decades has been how to make ...
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