- Paperback: 494 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (23 Dec 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0596515804
- ISBN-13: 978-0596515805
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 23.1 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 126,624 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Choosing and Configuring Modules to Build Dynamic Websites
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With the recipes in this book, you can take full advantage of the vast collection of community-contributed modules that make the Drupal web framework useful and unique. You'll get the information you need about how to combine modules in interesting ways (with a minimum of code-wrangling) to develop a variety of community-driven websites. Each chapter describes a case study and outlines specific requirements for one of several projects included in the book -- a wiki, publishing workflow site, photo gallery, product review site, online store, user group site, and more. With Using Drupal, you will:
- Get an overview of Drupal concepts and key modules introduced in each chapter, with a bird's-eye view of each module's specialty and how it works
- Explore various solutions within Drupal that meet the requirements for the project, with details about which modules are selected and why
- Learn how to configure modules, with step-by-step recipes for building the precise functionality the project requires
- Get information on additional modules that will make the project even more powerful
- Be able to access the modules used in the chapter, along with other resources
Newcomers will find a thorough introduction to the framework, while experienced Drupal developers will learn best practices for building powerful websites. With Using Drupal, you'll find concrete and creative solutions for developing the exact community website you have in mind.
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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A great little book if you're just starting out with Drupal, and want to know which modules could be useful for you. I'd say if you're getting into true development stuff and want to play around with Drupal a bit more, the excellent 'Pro Drupal Development' by John VanDyk would be a much better choice.
This book was written by members of the Lullabot team, who do Drupal consulting and development work. They really know their stuff, so you feel things they suggest in this book (like choosing module x over module y) are worth listening to.
The book itself guides you through typical scenarios you might want out of a Drupal website, like wikis, a shopping cart, workflow, multilingual sites, etc, etc. Each section has some useful tips and ideas, but doesn't go into a massive amount of depth. So again, great if you're just starting out and want a flavour of what's possible.
This book was written by members of the Lullabot team, who do Drupal consulting and development work. They really know their stuff, so you feel things they suggest in this book (like choosing module x over module y) are worth listening to.
The book itself guides you through typical scenarios you might want out of a Drupal website, like wikis, a shopping cart, workflow, multilingual sites, etc, etc. Each section has some useful tips and ideas, but doesn't go into a massive amount of depth. So again, great if you're just starting out and want a flavour of what's possible.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Of the dozens of books this graphic designer has used to teach himself to be a web designer there are about three that are used constantly - and this is one of them.
By walking through a dozen or so types of sites (gallery, newspaper, multilingual, store...) you get a sense of how Drupal works and develop the confidence to work with other modules - without having to do much to the code. So with this and a software package called Artisteer to help with creating a theme (it is a bit sketchy with this) I am able to present myself to clients as a virtual web developer - so it has enabled me to earn many thousands of pounds.
In fact I bought it maybe a year or so ago and today is just the latest of many times it has helped me out - a client suddenly decided he needed a workflow system as part of a new site. And with this book I did it in an hour or so. I don't do these reviews much but I feel so grateful to these writers for getting me out of yet another hole.
By walking through a dozen or so types of sites (gallery, newspaper, multilingual, store...) you get a sense of how Drupal works and develop the confidence to work with other modules - without having to do much to the code. So with this and a software package called Artisteer to help with creating a theme (it is a bit sketchy with this) I am able to present myself to clients as a virtual web developer - so it has enabled me to earn many thousands of pounds.
In fact I bought it maybe a year or so ago and today is just the latest of many times it has helped me out - a client suddenly decided he needed a workflow system as part of a new site. And with this book I did it in an hour or so. I don't do these reviews much but I feel so grateful to these writers for getting me out of yet another hole.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a great book as most from ... if you have some knoledege of Drupal. If you have already installed your developing environment (Apache, MySQL, PHP) and got Drupal working, if you have already made some trial error webpages with Drupal then this book is for you.
The people from Lulabot know all you need for starting seriously with Drupal.
The book covers very good examples of what might want for your sites, and you can avoid the so many times made question... with so many shared modules which one fits better on my site?
The experience of its writers will drive you through the same many doubts they have solved before you.
I do recommend this book. But if what you need a beginers book for building up your first Drupal site, I would go for Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6
The people from Lulabot know all you need for starting seriously with Drupal.
The book covers very good examples of what might want for your sites, and you can avoid the so many times made question... with so many shared modules which one fits better on my site?
The experience of its writers will drive you through the same many doubts they have solved before you.
I do recommend this book. But if what you need a beginers book for building up your first Drupal site, I would go for Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6
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