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The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 is the most comprehensive book for getting sites done using the powerful and extensible Drupal content management system. Written by a panel of expert authors, the book covers every aspect of Drupal, from planning a successful project all the way up to making a living from designing Drupal sites and to contributing to the Drupal community yourself. With this book you will:
- Follow practical approaches to solving many online communication needs with Drupal with real examples.
- Learn how to keep learning about Drupal: administration, development, theming, design, and architecture.
- Go beyond the code to engage with the Drupal community as a contributing member and to do Drupal sustainably as a business.
The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 was written by the following team of expert Drupal authors:
Benjamin Melanc¸on, Jacine Luisi, Ka´roly Ne´gyesi, Greg Anderson, Bojhan Somers, Ste´phane Corlosquet, Stefan Freudenberg, Michelle Lauer, Ed Carlevale, Florian Lore´tan, Dani Nordin, Ryan Szrama, Susan Stewart, Jake Strawn, Brian Travis, Dan Hakimzadeh, Amye Scavarda, Albert Albala, Allie Micka, Robert Douglass, Robin Monks, Roy Scholten, Peter Wolanin, Kay VanValkenburgh, Greg Stout, Kasey Qynn Dolin, Mike Gifford, Claudina Sarahe, Sam Boyer, and Forest Mars, with contributions from George Cassie, Mike Ryan, Nathaniel Catchpole, and Dmitri Gaskin.
For more information, check out the Drupaleasy podcast #63, in which author Benjamin Melanc¸on discusses The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 in great detail:
http://drupaleasy.com/podcast/2011/08/drupaleasy-podcast-63-epic
What you’ll learn
- Launch a community-ready site in fifteen minutes.
- Talk to stakeholders and architect a site’s structure and functionality around the goals it must achieve to successfully launch major enterprise sites.
- Find, evaluate, and configure modules to extend Drupal’s functionality.
- Theme inspired designs into functional, future-proof templates.
- Build modules when you need to extend what Drupal can do beyond the thousands of solutions already coded by others.
- Work with Drupal sustainably as a professional and as a participant in the Drupal community.
Who this book is for
Anyone who has heard of Drupal and has a personal or professional reason to learn more: from Drupal administrators, themers, and developers to moonlighters and intense hobbyists. People considering a solo or collaborative career making websites will find this book their complete stop for Drupal.
Table of Contents
- Building a Drupal 7 Site
- Essential Tools: Drush and Git
- Building Dynamic Pages Using Views
- There's a Module for That
- Creating Community Web Sites with Organic Groups
- Security in Drupal
- Updating Drupal
- Extending Your Site
- Drupal Community: Getting Help and Getting Involved
- Planning and Managing a Drupal Project
- Documenting for End Users and the Production Team
- Development Environment
- Putting a Site Online and Deploying New Features
- Developing from a Human Mindset
- Theming
- Advanced Theming
- jQuery
- Introduction to Module Development
- Using Drupal's APIs in a Module
- Refining Your Module
- Porting Modules to Drupal 7
- Writing Project-Specific Code
- Introduction to Functional Testing with Simpletest
- Writing a Major Module
- Drupal Commerce
- Drush
- Scaling Drupal
- Spice Your Content Up with Tasty Semantics
- The Menu System and the Path Into Drupal
- Under the Hood: Inside Drupal When It Displays a Page
- Search and Apache Solr Integration
- User Experience
- Completing a Site: The Other 90%
- Drupal Distributions and Installation Profiles
- Drupal's Story: A Chain of Many Unexpected Events
- Now You're in Business: Making a Living with Drupal
- Maintaining a Project
- Contributing to the Community
- Appendix A: Updating a Drupal Site from 6 to 7
- Appendix B: Profiling Drupal and Optimizing Performance
- Appendix C: Page Rendering and Altering
- Appendix D: Visual Design in Drupal
- Appendix E: Accessibility
- Appendix F: Windows Development Environment
- Appendix G: Installing Drupal on Ubuntu
- Appendix H: Mac OS X Installation
- Appendix I: Setting Up a Drupal Environment with the Acquia Dev Desktop
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book contains a mine of really useful information. Unfortunately the text is incredibly poorly formatted - to such an extent that it is really difficult to follow. The text includes examples which, if worked through, would greatly assist understanding. Regrettably the authors' intentions are frequently unclear as to what is actually required. However, with perseverance, sense can often be made of the frequently poorly constructed instructions.
The introduction to the book claims it "does not presume any specific prior curriculum". With no previous knowledge of Drupal 7, the reader may have considerable difficulty in appreciating just what Drupal and content management systems actually do. As a minimum a book such as 'Drupal for Dummies' should be read first!
This is a very frustrating book. It is a comprehensive and exhaustive compilation of Drupal 7 knowledge and understanding written by many experts in their own fields. Hidden within its 1000+ pages are real gems of information. With effective editing and proper formatting it would be a truely excellent publication.
The introduction to the book claims it "does not presume any specific prior curriculum". With no previous knowledge of Drupal 7, the reader may have considerable difficulty in appreciating just what Drupal and content management systems actually do. As a minimum a book such as 'Drupal for Dummies' should be read first!
This is a very frustrating book. It is a comprehensive and exhaustive compilation of Drupal 7 knowledge and understanding written by many experts in their own fields. Hidden within its 1000+ pages are real gems of information. With effective editing and proper formatting it would be a truely excellent publication.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I only wish there was such a book for Drupal 6.
I've been doing Drupal for 3-1/2 years, and read 15 or so books on Drupal. This one is the best. And all that wonderful exercise carrying it around - what a brick!
It really covers ALL aspects of web development with Drupal, and gives thorough and practical advice on becoming efficient with Drush and GiT, absolutely indispensible tools when doing serious Drupal work.
Might be overkill if a person just wants a simple website, but then they should possibly go to Wordpress or do something with Dreamwweaver.
Buy it, read it, love it.
I've been doing Drupal for 3-1/2 years, and read 15 or so books on Drupal. This one is the best. And all that wonderful exercise carrying it around - what a brick!
It really covers ALL aspects of web development with Drupal, and gives thorough and practical advice on becoming efficient with Drush and GiT, absolutely indispensible tools when doing serious Drupal work.
Might be overkill if a person just wants a simple website, but then they should possibly go to Wordpress or do something with Dreamwweaver.
Buy it, read it, love it.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
True to its name - A Frustrated Theming Newbies Elation
19 Aug 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book is THE guide to Drupal 7, I have read 3 other books on Drupal 7 and as far as I'm concerned this book includes the same information and often a LOT more, particularly in custom theming from scratch. Before this book came out there was virtually nothing out there on creating and implementing a new region in the .tpl files. This book dedicates a sub-section to the topic in chapter 15 which covers Default Regions, Hidden Regions, Module-Specific Regions, when to use regions vs. hard-coding variables, and then walks you through 2 distinct examples of implementing a new region (p.291-292). The book does a great job of explaining template overrides, theme functions, theme hook suggestions, and the render api's alter hook, showing you the syntax, and then walking you through an exercise. Even for a newbie it does a decent enough job of demonstrating the php code strings so I could copy and paste with some confidence, though I would probably be lost if I had to troubleshoot and I am limited by the applicability of the examples in the book, whatever that may be (I know I have to read a php book if I'm serious about theming in drupal). My only issue with the books theming chapters is that it doesn't have a dedicated section that concludes its fantastic coverage of the individual theming techniques by providing an all-inclusive comparative analysis or custom site build demonstration that reveals the logic of using one theming technique over another in different areas of the site build process. As a newbie, I just quickly became overwhelmed by all my options. It does a great job of explaining the differences in Drupals various strategies for implementing CSS styling and then demonstrating each of them in an all inclusive set of exercises for efficiently managing CSS in Drupal. Of course, I am limiting my discussion to that of theming because thats my main concern at this point, though at the size of a large phone book, I am sure administrators, themers, and developers alike will find their areas of interest covered very thoroughly. I'm only on chapter 17 out of 38 chapters and am already on my way of achieving my lofty goals!
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Lives up to the title
6 Aug 2011
Format:Paperback
This is the most complete and up-to-date Drupal book. It is a _big_ book, and contains information on topics that most other Drupal books skip such as:
* Project management,
* Test driven development,
* Command-line administration.
I've only just started digging in to the material, but it has already helped me on my project.
* Project management,
* Test driven development,
* Command-line administration.
I've only just started digging in to the material, but it has already helped me on my project.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
The best technical book in 25 years!
14 Sep 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I've purchased 7 books on Drupal and this one is the best. Hands down. It's great for beginners and advanced Drupal users alike. For beginners, each chapter starts with the basics and takes you as far as you'll likely ever need to go. For the advanced, each chapter/topic starts with an easy read, refresh and review, then dives into the advanced stuff that helps you take your sites as far as possible. Very few books can accomplish both of these objectives, but this one does it in excellent fashion. No wonder it's a 1000 pages.
My work has already improved dramatically, and every chapter has me so amped up, I can't wait to dive into the next to see what else I can learn.
There were lots of books that came out earlier, but they just don't measure up. These authors took the extra time (about 4 or 6 months beyond schedule) to get it right. Not just in accuracy and clarity, but in presentation and completeness as well. They sacrificed schedule for quality, and it paid off BIG TIME. I'm giving away all my other books, and just keeping this one.
Anyone who is serious about learning Drupal, or for experienced users, who want to rapidly upgrade their knowledge and value, you would be a fool not to put this book in your arsenal. Fantastic Job, Authors!
I've been in technology for 25 years, and this is the best technical book I've ever seen. It's definitely a MUST HAVE, and aptly named. It is "The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7."
My work has already improved dramatically, and every chapter has me so amped up, I can't wait to dive into the next to see what else I can learn.
There were lots of books that came out earlier, but they just don't measure up. These authors took the extra time (about 4 or 6 months beyond schedule) to get it right. Not just in accuracy and clarity, but in presentation and completeness as well. They sacrificed schedule for quality, and it paid off BIG TIME. I'm giving away all my other books, and just keeping this one.
Anyone who is serious about learning Drupal, or for experienced users, who want to rapidly upgrade their knowledge and value, you would be a fool not to put this book in your arsenal. Fantastic Job, Authors!
I've been in technology for 25 years, and this is the best technical book I've ever seen. It's definitely a MUST HAVE, and aptly named. It is "The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7."
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