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Pro drupal 7 development finally available as an ebook. Drupal 7 module development introduces you to module development by understanding the essential hooks and functions, building tables and querying the drupal database, exploring module security, performance and how our module interacts with drupal core and contributed modules. Read the local development guide to create and install a new drupal application on your local machine for the purpose of development. You have to add the paths to the nonnodes you want in configuration.