Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.13
EAN: 9781430209898
Edition: 2
ISBN: 1430209895
Label: Apress
Manufacturer: Apress
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 704
Publication Date: August 20, 2008
Publisher: Apress
Studio: Apress
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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.
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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Pro Drupal Development is very well written with detailed examples for both modules and themes.
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I gave this book 2 stars (as opposed to 1) because when I bought it there weren't many books out covering Drupal. This book is poorly written, and poorly organized. For a comprehensive book, the way it introduces topics is really scattered and can be confusing. Also, as another reader mentioned, some of the examples don't even work. You would be better off reading the Drupal API and the many tutorials out there online. Both of which have been much more helpful to me than reading this book.
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This book is a good resource for beginners who are developing for drupal and is also a good reference for expert developers. A good to have on your book shelf for quick reference.
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This book makes a lot of sense in some parts, but I found myself filling in some gaps with the Drupal API on drupal.org. I feel that is the reason to take away a star in the review: it should be gapless. Specifically, there was a very brief account on searching users that could be more clearly written.
I had to create a custom view as 'scaffolding' upon which to build my query to reconcile this gap. It would have been helpful for this book to be a bit more thorough in covering these types of things, but after all, it's not a book for beginners and may have been too advanced for me at the time. I don't think you could use this book at all if you don't have a good bit of experience web programming in php, and it would be a very frustrating thing to try to learn php and drupal development concurrently, because of the complexity.
Also, the book doesn't package solutions together, so in my experience you pretty much have to read it linearly from the beginning ... Read More
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Having almost no experience with Drupal, I had to create an entire database system using Drupal for the company I work for. I used this book to help me get acquainted with the inner workings of Drupal, and it helped me immensely. I would highly recommend it.
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