Join Amazon Prime and get unlimited Free One-Day Delivery. Already a member? Sign in.

 

or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
   
More Buying Choices
35 used & new from £17.77
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
Pro Drupal Development 2nd Edition
 
 
Share your own customer images
Search inside this book

Pro Drupal Development 2nd Edition (Paperback)

by John K. VanDyk (Author)
3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
RRP: £39.49
Price: £37.52 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save: £1.97 (5%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.

Want guaranteed delivery by Saturday, July 18? Choose Express delivery at checkout. See Details
29 new from £21.72 6 used from £17.77

Frequently Bought Together

Pro Drupal Development 2nd Edition + Using Drupal + Drupal 6 Themes: Create New Themes for Your Drupal 6 Site with Clean Layout and Powerful CSS Styling
Price For All Three: £90.59

Show availability and shipping details

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Using Drupal

Using Drupal

by Angela Byron
4.8 out of 5 stars (4)  £29.33
Drupal 6 Themes: Create New Themes for Your Drupal 6 Site with Clean Layout and Powerful CSS Styling

Drupal 6 Themes: Create New Themes for Your Drupal 6 Site with Clean Layout and Powerful CSS Styling

by Ric Shreves
5.0 out of 5 stars (1)  £23.74
Learning Drupal 6 Module Development

Learning Drupal 6 Module Development

by Matt Butcher
3.7 out of 5 stars (3)  £23.74
Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6

Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6

by David Mercer
3.8 out of 5 stars (5)  £26.59
Front End Drupal: Designing, Theming, Scripting (Developer's Library)

Front End Drupal: Designing, Theming, Scripting (Developer's Library)

by Konstantin Käfer
3.0 out of 5 stars (1)  £17.39
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Paperback: 704 pages
  • Publisher: APRESS; 2nd Revised edition edition (18 Aug 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1430209895
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430209898
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 17.8 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 27,957 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    Popular in these categories:

    #16 in  Books > Computing & Internet > Programming > Languages > PHP
    #30 in  Books > Computing & Internet > Programming > Languages & Tools > Scripting

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links

  (What is this?)
Develop Drupal Modules
   www.OSSCube.com/Drupal_Module    Get Version Specific Drupal Work by Drupal & Acquia Partner. Get Quote! 
Open Source CMS
   www.Squiz.co.uk/WhitePaper    You have a choice. Enterprise-ready open source CMS. Read white papers. 
Plone Development
   www.netsight.co.uk    UK-based Zope and Plone specialists Full site build or consultancy 
  
 

Product Description

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.
Inside This Book (Learn More)
Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
Search inside this book:

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
Check the boxes next to the tags you consider relevant or enter your own tags in the field below
(5)
(4)
(3)
(3)
(2)
(1)
See all 7 tags...

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Pro Drupal Development 2nd Edition
72% buy the item featured on this page:
Pro Drupal Development 2nd Edition 3.8 out of 5 stars (4)
£37.52
Using Drupal
17% buy
Using Drupal 4.8 out of 5 stars (4)
£29.33
Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6
4% buy
Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6 3.8 out of 5 stars (5)
£26.59
Drupal 6 Themes: Create New Themes for Your Drupal 6 Site with Clean Layout and Powerful CSS Styling
4% buy
Drupal 6 Themes: Create New Themes for Your Drupal 6 Site with Clean Layout and Powerful CSS Styling 5.0 out of 5 stars (1)
£23.74
Explore similar items
 

Customer Reviews

4 Reviews
5 star:
 (1)
4 star:
 (2)
3 star:    (0)
2 star:
 (1)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
3.8 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading, 9 Jan 2009
By M. Bull "gnozu" (Folkestone, UK) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
If you want to get at all serious about taking Drupal beyond a simple installation, this book is going to be a massive help to you. If you're anything like me you'll come back to it again and again for reference and to try out some new ideas.

It covers all kinds of development areas such as building your own modules, the form API, themes, and even best practices. All this kind of stuff can be found online, but it's a big help to have it all clearly explained in one place. Sometimes you just need someone to guide you through the maze of options that Drupal offers.

Much of the book isn't for the faint-hearted. You need a good working knowledge of PHP and some MySQL. Most books start you off nice and easy, but here the early chapters are very much a leap into the deep-end. There's a certain amount of reliance on just accepting fairly esoteric Drupal stuff until it's explained more clearly later in the book.

The book also comes with plenty of examples, which you can download for free from Apress. These really help you get your head around some of the trickier ideas (I found one or two of the examples didn't work as described - but to be fair there are some errata by the author on the Apress site).

In summary - this book is an excellent buy if you want to take Drupal to the next level but don't know where to start.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
2.0 out of 5 stars NOT for newbies in Drupal, 7 Jun 2009
So I bought a good book!
Everyone points to this as being a "Bible of Drupal"

Well good it may be.
May be a I fell foul of the title, referring to Development
As a developer of a [ahem] lot of years and recently dragging myself into PHP & .NET - not for want (more by business need)

Having 'consumed' many technical articles/books/manuals I can say yes it looks
like a damn good resource and one I may well come back to in time.
If I need to build modules.

But if you've just started with a xAMP install, downloaded Drupal and gone through the hoops on installing and getting to the 'welcome' you're left somewhat in the lurch.

Loads of modules
Loads of themes
It can do "anything/everything" .. but little dummies guide to how-to !?

OK - you know about taxonomys, templates, CSS etc.
Simple tasks like a homepage isn't explained/obvious.
A home page isn't one of many .. it's a one-off
everything is geared towards multiples of ans lists/modules

The books appears to be very code intensive.
A website does provide some/most of the code as a download - it's not all.
Also the list of errata appears to have been already incorporated, which is good but come form of [done/include mark would assist as there are a LOT of errata].
I generally head for before I start to read this sort of material, otherwise their typos can screw your understanding before you start.




Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
4.0 out of 5 stars Helped me understand all the different pieces, 13 May 2009
By Dave Nyss (Godalming, UK) - See all my reviews
there is much information on the web about Drupal, lots of good bits of specific information; as a experienced developer, but no experience of Drupal, I found it like being a "detective" trying to piece together a puzzle, i knew the sort of thing I wanted to do but couldn't quite find all the information in one place to tell me how to do it. I was just about getting there when I decided to bite the bullet and buy a reference manual. What a difference it has made, I can highly recommend this book. its well laid out and talks you through all the powerful features of drupal in a thoughtful sequence. It has helped fill in lots of gaps. Drupal is a powerful, flexible product with lots of ways of dong things, that makes it very confusing when you first come across it. its easier to learn something when there is only one way to do it or you are led through the options, this is what this book does very well.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars The perfect book for Drupal developers
Unlike other content management systems, Drupal can appear daunting to new users. It is full of concepts like nodes, hooks, themes and the form api which can take weeks to learn... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Adam Boyse

Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

 Beta (What's this?)
This product's forum (0 discussions)
  Discussion Replies Latest Post
  No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
  [Cancel]

   

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Feedback

Health & Beauty at Amazon.co.uk

Elemis Resurface and Renew Skin Care Gift Set of 4 Products
From soap to shavers, massagers to mascara, stock up on your daily essentials or truly pamper yourself.

›Discover Health & Beauty

  

More From John K. VanDyk

Pro Drupal Development

Pro Drupal Development by VanDyk

Drupal is the premier open source content management system available. Read more
£30.99

 

Up to 50% off Dental Care

Braun Oral-B Professional Care 6000 Rechargeable Toothbrush - Pack of 2
Put a sparkle in your smile with up to 50% off selected Oral-B and Philips rechargeable toothbrushes.

›Up to 50% off power toothbrushes

  

Treat Someone

Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificates--available in any amount from £5 to £500 With an Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificate, you can get them what they want (even if you don't know what that is).

›Learn more about Gift Certificates

  
Ad

Where's My Stuff?

Delivery and Returns

Need Help?

Your Recent History

  (What's this?)
You have no recently viewed items or searches.

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.

Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session.
Continue Shopping: Top Sellers

amazon.co.uk Amazon Home
International Sites:  United States  |  Germany  |  France  |  Japan  |  Canada  |  China
Business Programs: Sell on Amazon  |  Fulfilment by Amazon  |  Join Associates  |  Join Advantage
Customer Service  |  Help  |  View Basket  |  Your Account
About Amazon.co.uk  |  Careers at Amazon
Conditions of Use & Sale |  Privacy Notice  © 1996-2009, Amazon.com, Inc. and its affiliates