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Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition (Beginning from Novice to Professional) By John K. VanDyk ( Apress )
Release Date: 2008-08-20
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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. What you’ll learn - Find out how to create your own modules, develop your own themes, and produce your own filters.
- Learn the inner workings of each key part of Drupal, including user management, sessions, the node system, caching, and the various APIs available to you.
- Discover how to optimize your Drupal installation to perform well under high–load situations.
- Gain the knowledge needed to secure your Drupal installation and other best practice techniques.
- Learn to integrate Ajax into and internationalize your Drupal web site.
Who is this book for? Web developers maintaining and creating sites with Drupal. It is assumed that you already know the basics of Drupal and are able to install and bring up a basic installation. This book takes you deeper into the internals of Drupal and teaches how to tweak and modify it in order to create that perfect web site. Simply put, if you are working with Drupal, you need Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition. About the Apress Pro Series The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder. You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard–won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.
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 Does not cover Drupal 5 ( dwight@theriver.com )
This is an excellent book, covering significantly more material than its predecessor, which was for Drupal 5. Note, however, that it does not illustrate differences between Drupal 5 & 6, so if you are doing Drupal 5 development you have to get the first version as well. This wasn't clear to me before the purchase.
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 Not for begginer
I am completely new to Drupal and bought this book thinking that I could learn from it. Not a very good book for newbies on the Drupal platform.
Definetely, I will have to return this one. The Pro really stand for Professional Drupal Developer.
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The essential Drupal coding book ( gammonr001 )
If you're new to Drupal and just want to learn how to be an effective admin, this isn't for you.
If you're looking to customize Drupal by adding new functionality, new node types, advanced themeing the **you must get this book**.
Clearly written. Useful examples. Accurate. Detailed backmatter for professional Drupal coding practices.
I've used Drupal since v. 4.7, since 2005. My copy of this book's first edition is dogeared and well-thumbed. This second edition is even better, and I keep it right by my desk. It's helped me out of many a jam.
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Overall Great Update, with Some Issues
This is a review for the second edition, covering Drupal 6.
I have read only the first 3 chapters, but did read the 1st edition cover-to-cover.
The first thing to know is that while reading this, if you are working through the examples, you will want to have the Drupal API handy (http://api.drupal.com) as there are infrequent calls to depreciated functions such as variable_delete() instead of the current variable_del() that may make the learning process more difficult for people in the novice to early-intermediate range that aren't familiar with the API pages. So far the only other complaint I can make is that VanDyk's adherence to Drupal coding standards is spotty. I won't mention and specific examples of this as they don't make or break any of the code, but being a person who (tries to) strictly adhere to a given set of standards, found that to be a little bit annoying. Overall, this title would have benefited from an extra proofing by the sort of person who would read it in the first place.
This is the type of book in which a reader would benefit from an initial read-through before they would start coding. There are several front references that make more sense with better context.
As stated in general terms, this is my second reading of this book and find the updated version to be an excellent primer on the core pieces of Drupal, building modules and the theme system and have and will recommend it to anyone who is interested in learning about Drupal in spite of it's relatively few and small problems.
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 Only for Version 5
Seems to be a great book easy to follow - but it's for version 5 of Drupal. None of the examples work with Version 6. So if you up to date on your code, don't bother with this book.
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