 | author: David Mercer asin: 1904811809 binding: Paperback list price: $39.99 USD amazon price: $39.99 USD |
A complete guide to every aspect of creating a variety of different websites using Drupal. A trove of well-considered and practical information is presented in a logical and intuitive manner so that you can either build up your site step by step by reading from cover to cover or, alternatively, focus on your specific needs by diving into each chapter as required. Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems on the internet. Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design mean it is already on the way to becoming the de facto standard for CMS Websites. Drupal’s modular design and structured source code make it both highly flexible and easily extended and modified. Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence.
 | author: Ric Shreves asin: 1847191827 binding: Paperback list price: $39.99 USD amazon price: $39.99 USD |
This book is the ideal introduction to theming with Drupal 5. If you want to create a striking new look for your Drupal website, this book is for you. Starting from the basics of theme setup and configuration, you will learn about the Drupal theming architecture and the PHPTemplate engine, and then move on to modifying existing themes and building new themes from scratch. Included is a complete guide to the various style sheets and themeable functions in Drupal 5, making this book a valuable resource to even experienced theme developers.
 | author: Niall Mansfield asin: 095445295X binding: Paperback list price: $39.95 USD amazon price: $39.95 USD |
Explaining the fundamental concepts necessary to understand how a Web content management system (CMS) works, and how Drupal in particular operates, this guide is basic enough for beginners with no prior CMS experience. First an evaluation guide helps the reader to decide if Drupal is the CMS needed and includes a tutorial to get a useful site up and running in less than a day. After that, Drupal’s administration, content management, how to build and manage installation, and modifying and extending functionality are all explained in detail.
 | author: Robert T. Douglass Mike Little Jared W. Smith asin: 1590595629 binding: Paperback list price: $49.99 USD amazon price: $31.49 USD |
Content management, blogs, and online forums are among the most significant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most popular open source applications facilitating these trends.
Drupal is a full content management system that allows you to create any type of website you desire, from an e-commerce to a community-based site. phpBB enables you to set up a bulletin board or forum. And WordPress is the software of choice for the exploding blog community. All three technologies are based on PHP and MySQL.
Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and Wordpress is authored by a team of experts. Robert T. Douglass recently created the Drupal-powered blog site NowPublic.com. Mike Little is a founder and contributing developer of the WordPress project. And Jared W. Smith has been a longtime support team member of phpBBHacks.com and has been building sites with phpBB since the first beta releases.
I co-authored this book in 2005. The Drupal section is 215 pages and covers the following chapters:
- Introducing Drupal
- What is Drupal?
- Who Should Use Drupal?
- Installing Drupal
- Creating Drupal Content
- Touring Drupal’s Features
- Configuring Drupal
- Configuring Site Settings
- Setting Up and Maintaining User Accounts
- Using Modules
- Using Blocks
- Managing Content
- Managing Comments
- Configuring Themes
- Using Categories
- Using the Drupal Core Modules
- Aggregator Module
- Archive Module
- Block Module
- Blog Module
- BlogAPI Module
- Book Module
- Comment Module
- Contact Module
- Drupal Module
- Filter Module
- Forum Module
- Help Module
- Legacy Module
- Locale Module
- Menu Module
- Node Module
- Page and Story Modules
- Path Module
- Ping Module
- Poll Module
- Profile Module
- Search Module
- Statistics Module
- Taxonomy Module
- Throttle Module
- Tracker Module
- Upload Module
- User Module
- Watchdog Module
- Adding Contributed Modules
- Getting Drupal Modules
- TinyMCE Module
- Image Module
- Image Assist Module
- Flexinode Module
- Event Module
- Location Module
- Organic Groups Module
- Spam Module
- Database Administration Module
- Developer Tools (Devel) Module
- Adding and Customizing Themes
- Understanding Themes
- Installing New Themes
- Customizing Themes
- Using Theme-Related Modules
- Maintaining Your Site
- Scheduling Automated Tasks
- Running Multiple Drupal Sites
- Making Backups
- Maintaining a Test Site
- Updating Drupal
- Getting Drupal Support
 | author: John K. VanDyk Matt Westgate asin: 1590597559 binding: Paperback list price: $44.99 USD amazon price: $29.69 USD |
Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems in use today. With it, you can create a variety of community-driven sites, including blogs, forums, wiki-style sites, and much more. Pro Drupal Development was written to arm you with knowledge to customize your Drupal installation however you see fit. The book assumes that you already possess the knowledge to install and bring a standard installation online. Then authors John VanDyk and Matt Westgate delve into Drupal internals, showing you how to truly take advantage of its powerful architecture.
I was a technical editor for this book.
John VanDyk and Matt Westgate are nearly finished with their Drupal book, which can finally be pre-ordered on Amazon.com
A new book about Drupal has been published and is now available on Amazon. I'm looking forward to reading it!
Today I received a very nice package in the mail; my Drupal book is finally available!
Soon after the conference, Dries was approached by Matt Wade, an editor at Apress, about writing 1/3 of a book about building online communities. The other 2/3 would discuss phpBB and WordPress, two other immensely popular projects that address different niches. As Dries was too busy with his studies to write a book, he introduced me to Matt.
The result was a project that lasted until October; writing the first book about Drupal. I knew that I would need lots of support, and therefore asked James Walker to be the technical editor. This turned out to be a very good move, as James is a "Drupal Rockstar" who always knows the smallest technical details, and has worked with many many clients and other people to know which parts of Drupal are hard to grasp, and where the hidden sticking points are. He helped me decide how to present the many concepts and capabilities that are not always intuitive.
