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.

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Excellent Book on Drupal API Coding with PHP - 2009-07-09
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Drupal's online documentation leaves something to be desired. It is so difficult to find detailed and complete, step-by-step, online tutorials of exactly how to customize Drupal via its API using PHP. Because of this, my first Drupal rollout was a little hodgepodge - some CCK work, combined some piecemeal code mined from online, combined with contributed modules to do other things, even [dare I say] a few module hacks. Nowhere could I find straightforward A-to-Z instructions, "Here is how you create a Module. Here is how you make that Module create Nodes, Forms, and Blocks" and so on. This book does that with flying colors.

I initially powered through "Leveraging Drupal" from Wrox Press in a few days. Certainly helpful in some areas, but that book is very high-level - remaining largely in the browser-based realm of Drupal customization. I really needed a book that delved deep into Drupal's API, had a tutorial-like style, solid working code examples, and remaining largely on the PHP level. Pro Drupal Development was that very breath of fresh air. Reading the chapters on Nodes and the Forms API immediately got me through several roadblocks and allowed me to get the project's timeline back on track.

Because of this book, I can now remove all the hodgepodge with CCK and hacked modules, and move all customizations entirely to the PHP level.

well,... it's a book about Drupal - 2009-06-26
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I gave this book 2 stars (as opposed to 1) because when I bought it there weren't many books out covering Drupal. This book is poorly written, and poorly organized. For a comprehensive book, the way it introduces topics is really scattered and can be confusing. Also, as another reader mentioned, some of the examples don't even work. You would be better off reading the Drupal API and the many tutorials out there online. Both of which have been much more helpful to me than reading this book.

Pro Drupal the wrong book for me - 2009-10-12
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I was hoping to find helpful information on how to roll out a Drupal website, not build a new Drupal module. Probably my mistake.

Proof reading would help - 2009-08-18
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I couldn't get very far into this book for two reasons alone.

1. The spelling errors and fragmented sentences are ridiculous.
2. Code examples don't work. What?????

I'm glad I didn't spend cash on this book and just got the online version through safari.

Well Written - 2009-07-01
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Pro Drupal Development is very well written with detailed examples for both modules and themes.

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