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: 004
EAN: 9781590595626
ISBN: 1590595629
Label: Apress
Manufacturer: Apress
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: December 13, 2005
Publisher: Apress
Release Date: May 04, 2009
Studio: Apress
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Content management, blogs, and online forums are among the most significant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most popular open source applications facilitating these trends.
Drupal is a full content management system that allows you to create any type of website you desire, from an e-commerce to a community-based site. phpBB enables you to set up a bulletin board or forum. And WordPress is the software of choice for the exploding blog community. All three technologies are based on PHP and MySQL.
Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and Wordpress is authored by a team of experts. Robert T. Douglass recently created the Drupal-powered blog site NowPublic.com. Mike Little is a founder and contributing developer of the WordPress project. And Jared W. Smith has been a longtime support team member of phpBBHacks.com and has been building sites with phpBB since the first beta releases.
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The title is very misleading. There is little in this book about "building online communities". Rather it is a book about tools which can be used for building online communities.
Second, the information, particularly on Drupal, is very much outdated. The book's discussion is about Drupal version 4.6.Drupal is currently at version 6.10 and there are substantial differences.
Likewise, the book describes phpBB v2.0.x - and the current version is 3.0.4. There are what amount to a few notes in the book about the newer version, but not much. The notes were clearly an afterthought.
Wordpress v. 1.5 is described. The current version is 2.7 - and a lot has changed.
Finally the depth and quality of instruction provided here is limited. There isn't anything you can't find online and a lot of it seems copied almost verbatim from online sources.
There is almost nothing significant about "building online communities". Just some ... Read More
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Carefully designed and clearly written, this book is an effective introduction to PHP for anyone who has at least a little experience with web design. It is built around simple step-by-step examples which illustrate the principles being explained. These are clearly designed to minimize the trauma of learning a programming language for the code-phobic. The reader can follow along on the keyboard and build confidence by experimenting with variations.
For programmers, who already understand most of PHP's basic concepts, this approach can be frustrating. The book spends pages demonstrating things that could be explained in a paragraph or two.
You can learn PHP from this book whatever your background, but if you have already mastered another programming language, you'll be better off with a book that teaches PHP from that point of view.
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I bought this book hoping to get up to speed quickly on the very exciting Drupal platform. Unfortunately, this book was targeted at Drupal 4.7 Users. I started using 5.5 (as of today they have a version 6 release candidate), and quickly discovered that half the information in the book did not match up. There has been a major reorganization of the administrative pages, leaving the information given you more likely to confuse than inform.
My other major objection is that the information is cursory, and does not really provide you with the skills needed to build a real site. If they had done this book well, you would have been walked through building a basic real site, so you could understand everything in context. There is nothing like that here. It is basically piecemeal information that is available online, though a bit more thorough with some exercises scattered throughout to demonstrate concepts.
Unless you intend to use Version 4 of Drupal for some reason, ... Read More
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Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and Wordpress was very helpful. I found the sections very helpful and easy to understand.
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This is a great introduction, at least to Drupal version 4.
Note that the administration menus are significantly different for the current Drupal 5 release. I wonder if a revision is in the works?
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