Drupal Books

In his review John Forsythe writes:

This book will take you through building several different modules, linking them together through hooks, and finally, creating an install profile to incorporate them all into a distributable package. Along the way, you'll find lots of useful tips, and links to relevant topics on Drupal.org.

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.