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Pro Drupal Development 2nd Edition
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Product Description
Widely praised for its in–depth coverage of Drupal internals, bestselling Pro Drupal Development has been completely updated for Drupal 6 in this latest edition, and there are even more tricks of the trade to help you further yourself as a professional Drupal developer. Assuming you already know how to install and bring a standard installation online, John K. VanDyk gives you everything else you need to customize your Drupal installation however you see fit. Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition delves deep into Drupal internals, showing you how to take full advantage of its powerful architecture.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #8701 in Books
- Published on: 2008-08-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 3.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 704 pages
Customer Reviews
Essential reading
If you want to get at all serious about taking Drupal beyond a simple installation, this book is going to be a massive help to you. If you're anything like me you'll come back to it again and again for reference and to try out some new ideas.
It covers all kinds of development areas such as building your own modules, the form API, themes, and even best practices. All this kind of stuff can be found online, but it's a big help to have it all clearly explained in one place. Sometimes you just need someone to guide you through the maze of options that Drupal offers.
Much of the book isn't for the faint-hearted. You need a good working knowledge of PHP and some MySQL. Most books start you off nice and easy, but here the early chapters are very much a leap into the deep-end. There's a certain amount of reliance on just accepting fairly esoteric Drupal stuff until it's explained more clearly later in the book.
The book also comes with plenty of examples, which you can download for free from Apress. These really help you get your head around some of the trickier ideas (I found one or two of the examples didn't work as described - but to be fair there are some errata by the author on the Apress site).
In summary - this book is an excellent buy if you want to take Drupal to the next level but don't know where to start.
Helped me understand all the different pieces
there is much information on the web about Drupal, lots of good bits of specific information; as a experienced developer, but no experience of Drupal, I found it like being a "detective" trying to piece together a puzzle, i knew the sort of thing I wanted to do but couldn't quite find all the information in one place to tell me how to do it. I was just about getting there when I decided to bite the bullet and buy a reference manual. What a difference it has made, I can highly recommend this book. its well laid out and talks you through all the powerful features of drupal in a thoughtful sequence. It has helped fill in lots of gaps. Drupal is a powerful, flexible product with lots of ways of dong things, that makes it very confusing when you first come across it. its easier to learn something when there is only one way to do it or you are led through the options, this is what this book does very well.
The perfect book for Drupal developers
Unlike other content management systems, Drupal can appear daunting to new users. It is full of concepts like nodes, hooks, themes and the form api which can take weeks to learn.
Pro Drupal Development should be a mandatory read for anyone wanting to use Drupal for their website. It guides you through the technology with clear, well written sections on every aspect of Drupal including module development.
You will need a reasonably good grasp of PHP to follow the book and I found myself having to re-read some chapters before the concepts sank in; particularly the theme() function and form api.
I also found this book useful once after I became more proficient in Drupal. I was able to return to topics to check my approach was correct and I now find the book sits beside me while developing new Drupal sites.
In summary, a worthwhile read for anyone wanting to use Drupal professionally.
