Drupal Books

From Matthew Saunders review of Drupal 5 Themes:

I really enjoyed the first couple of chapters which reinforced concepts that I already grasped providing very basic Drupal management and configuration and discussing what makes a Drupal theme. It goes on to illustrate setup and configuration.

From Larry Garfield's review:

Personally I think David has done a great job with it, but then I am biased; I was the tech reviewer for the book. :-)

From http://addingunderstanding.com a review of Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6:

This book updates the bestselling Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites for Drupal 6, the latest, much improved version of this popular open-source Content Management System...

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Finally, I received a copy of the latest Drupal 5 Themes book just right after Drupal 6 was released.

In general, the “Drupal 5 Themes” book by Packt Publishing is a lightweight for the light-hearted reference guide to get started and learn the basics of creating and understanding a Drupal Theme.

From the elements of a theme, to setting-up, working with theme engines, intercepting, overriding, and everything in between… it proved to be a great companion in the art of producing a Drupal theme.

Frankly, prior to receiving the book I already have some basic knowledge in producing my own theme. However, I was surprised to see ideas that I haven’t tried nor knew before I have browsed all 250 pages of this book.

Book: 

Learning Drupal 6 Module Development: A practical tutorial for creating your first Drupal 6 modules with PHP

Pre Order now scheduled to be available June 2008.

Language English
Paperback 250 pages [191mm x 235mm]
Release date Expected June 2008
ISBN 1847194443
ISBN 13 978-1-847194-44-2

From the book's website:

Walk through the development of complete Drupal 6 modules with this primer for PHP programmers, written specifically for Drupal 6 to get you started coding your first module.

Are you a Drupal developer looking to update to version 6? This book covers the new and updated APIs to guide your transition to Drupal 6. The new menu system, the Forms and Schema APIs, and many core revisions are covered in this book.
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This book is written for PHP developers who want to add custom features to Drupal. You will need to know the basics of PHP and MySQL programming, but no experience of programming Drupal is required, although you will be expected to be familiar with the basic operation of Drupal.