Drupal Books

Thu, 01/02/2007 - 12:36 — jzfitzge

I am looking for a book that will enable me to get the must from Drupal as well as helping me customise, create themes and general make Drupal do what I want instead of the default options.

There seems to be 2 books avalable:

Building Websites with Drupal by PACKT

Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB and WordPress by APres

Can any one recomend which one of the books is best for going beyond the basic installation routine.

General

Thu, 01/02/2007 - 13:12 — dokumori

I have both books and sold

I have both books and sold the one published by PACKT. It only gives you a brief introduction to drupal and does not explain how drupal works at the code level. It has some good explanation on user privilege, but you can find it on the web too.

The other book is highly recommended. It explains drupal's theming at the code level and gives you sample codes to override some theme functions. It also gives you maintenance tips and other useful information.

I would also recommend drupal tutorials prepared by IBM's software engineers.

They explains about how theming works in a great depth and also explains how to build a module (although their example lacks a funciton), etc.

Good luck!

Thu, 01/02/2007 - 14:38 — AjK@drupal.org

Yep, I'd second that

Yep, I'd second that opionion. dokumori, nice one, you got rid of your book on some unsusspecting sucker ;) (It's not that bad a book but the only section I found of any use initially was on taxonomy_access module. The rest is mainly covered in the first book advocated).

Fri, 02/02/2007 - 11:59 — hunthunthunt

Agree, I'll third that

The packt book by David Mercer gives a very superficial understanding and leaves out a lot of what I consider to be essential drupal knowledge. A very poor book for anyone who wants to do anything substantial with drupal.

Fri, 09/02/2007 - 12:50 — jzfitzge

Book Suggestions

Hi thanks for all the feed back.

I shall wait for the new book to come out and by both the Apres books together. Also the IBM article I found very interesting. I have printed the lot out and am slowly working my way through them.

Cheers for the help once the site is more presentable I will post a link.

Sat, 03/02/2007 - 00:22 — Barry Pretsell