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In the previous lesson, I told you about what a node is in Drupal. Nodes are our Blog Entries, Pages, Stories. In this lesson, we will create a new content type called "Employee". This content type will be used to create a list of employees with a photo and a description of each one.

In the previous lesson, using the Drupal Views and CCK modules, we created an employee gallery that is filled by creating content of the "Employee" type. In the content type "Employee", we added two fields: Full Name (text field) and About Employee (textarea). This lesson is created to show that the same data can be displayed in different ways using Views.

In this lesson, I will focus especially on working with arguments in Views. Arguments refer to parts of the URL, for example:

node/15
The first argument is node, the second is 15.
taxonomy/term/10
The first argument is taxonomy, the second is term, the third is 10.
user/67
The first argument is user, the second is 67

I believe these examples are clear enough and don’t require additional explanation.

You can get arguments using the arg() function:

In this tutorial I will show you how to set up a news feed using the Views module.

To learn how to create a contact form with CAPTCHA, watch the video linked in this article.

A product catalog is implemented in many CMSs, and Drupal is no exception. You can use ready-made solutions such as Ubercart, e-Commerce, or another module that implements a catalog in Drupal. However, these modules may have more functionality than you need. A catalog can also be created using CCK (to create the product content type), Taxonomy (to categorize products), and Views (to display the products).

Let's return to our product catalog, which we created in one of the previous lessons. The catalog is being filled successfully and is more or less displayed correctly, but ordering a product through the contact form is rather inconvenient — you have to copy the name, product code, then paste it into the form and write a message. Let's create a form that simplifies the ordering process. For this, we will need the Webform module, which is used for creating forms in Drupal.

To install Drush on Windows, use the installer:

http://www.drush.org/drush_windows_installer

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