Drupal development book now shipping

I thought about buying from your link and helping out Drupalbook, but if I order from this tab I pay currency exchange and probably duty, to order from US to Canada. So I am ordering off Amazon.ca instead.

Living in the Netherlands this looked like the best option. The approximate shipping date is the 24th of April.
I'm currently setting up a public/intra website for the company I work for, so this book will help me alot.

Thanks to all the people involved !

The book is great... I just got my copy today. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to get "down 'n' dirty" with Drupal... things like custom module development, theming, and XML-RPC.

I mean who isn't excited about XML-RPC?

Congrats John and Matt!

Ordered mine from Amazon Sat night (4-14-07) and they shipped it on Tues 4-17. Hopefully, I should have it in a few days.

*** I received my copy today (Friday 4-20-07). Looks very good so far. ***

Does it cover how to make forms fit in a table for better formatting?

Nancy W.
Drupal Cookbook (for New Drupallers)
Adding Hidden Design or How To notes in your database

It's here Chapter 8 - The Theme System

I'll order it tomorrow and I hope more books of this caliber will be released.

Sure it will only be valid a few monthes (until Drupal 6) but I think it worth the buy.

There is a trade arrangement between Amazon.com and Canada XPressPost. Books bought at amazon.com from Canada ship 'over customs' by XPressPost. Given that the Canadian dollar is strong, it may be a kif-kif situation here as to what's more expensive between ordering from the States (with 3.99$ US shipping) and ordering from Amazon.ca. Unless you benefit from free shipping in Canada by ordering another book with that one, because that one won't be enough to cover the minimal expense.

So really you could donate to Drupal by ordering from the States.

Caroline
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What about translations ? I would be glad to help producing an Italian translation.
Hope you are interested (errata included ;) )

can't wait to have it!

My arrived yesterday via Amazon and has already proved itself useful (by reminding me to check MaxChildProcesses in Apache) ... :)

Cheaped out on shipping, so mine wont be in till may 2.

Nobody give away the ending ;)

- Dan

Owner/operate: Dracosplace.com
Technology Specialist: Redfinsolutions.com

I got the book on Monday and its already proved invaluable. Gets into the "Drupal way of thinking". It is a great balance between high level overview and concrete examples. Of course it would have been great if they had implemented my project as a case study - but I will be much more productive using the book.

The authors cover a lot of ground and they don't dwell on programming basics. I haven't read all the chapters - I am concentrating on the ones I need so I can't say they are all good. But it is so helpful to have the high-level Drupal processing diagrams to make the logic of the tool clearer.

mines on the way, ordered through Drupal Assoc.
Congrats to all involved!

Thanks in advance for adding the corrections to drupalbook.com with relation to typo's corrected after publishing.

congrats and thank you to the authors. we are ordering 3 for the team at work.

Congratulations to the authors! A most-needed book for everyone!

I just pre-ordered mine at Amazon.co.uk through the Assoc link! :)) Hope the Assoc gets the commission.

They say it's arriving end of next week. :)

Now I have all Drupal books, but the unreleased one below.

1. Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress by Robert T. Douglass, Mike Little, and Jared W. Smith (Paperback - Dec 13, 2005)
2. Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, And Community Websites by David Mercer (Paperback - April 30, 2006)
3. Pro Drupal Development by John VanDyk and Matt Westgate (Paperback - April 23, 2007)

Unreleased: Practical Drupal: Evaluating and Using a Web Content Management System by Niall Mansfield (Paperback - Aug 1, 2007)
(Any news about what is this book about and what for? Is it an entry level guide on how to pick a CMS? Does it fill a hole of informationor is it a new book covering the same subjects as the others?)

It's definitely a main need to have proper didactic comprehensive documentation about Drupal, that covers several case scenarios with efficiency and lenght.

This is another great step towards this goal!!

I have to confess that after reviewing the Handbook in depth to solve several doubts, even with the first two books on hand, there are big black holes of broad and practical information and methodologies about important subjects (just check the multisite install/configurations in the handbook, Why is not there a final and perfected broad unique approach to it? Broad meaning that works in the several different platforms out there).
This didactic ventures are a wonderful black-hole-covering effort!! :)))

Well done to John and Matt and the Publishing house for supporting them!! :D

All the best to the book's path towards bestselling stardom.

Best regards,

Nicolás Amado

Universe Inside Consulting
empowering digital business performance through comprehensive strategic solutions
Barcelona, Boston, London.
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I've ordered mine and the Drupal Assoc should get a commission.

Unfortunately it will be early May before my copy reaches Australia - sigh.

And now I see an e-book's available. Dammit, I wish I could have ordered that instead - I'm sure it would have arrived quicker. I echo the comments above. If you order the hardcopy, can you get the ebook thrown in?

I definitely getting this book, but I asked around shops here in Malaysia, it isn't even listed in their database yet ...

In the mean time, I'm having some trouble with the example sourcecode http://www.apress.com/book/supplementDownload.html?bID=10258&sID=4221

the module in chapter 17 (JQuery) doeesn't seem to work on my test machine. Its a node voting module, but clicking on the vote link doesn't seem to change the vote count at all? and yes, I have logged in as another user other than the submitter.

Anybody can get this module working, is it just me?

This book is chock-full of "a-ha" moments. A must have resource for anyone considering serious drupaling.

cool, it's on my wishlist already and it's also available on amazon.de:

Pro Drupal Development (Taschenbuch)

Does anyone know what type of protection they use on there ebooks. Do they allow you to download it on one computer and copy it to another. Even if i have to enter in a username and password that doesn't both me, i just want to be able to copy it to my notebook.

cheers

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I would have purchased the book from Amazon, but it took a month for my last lot of books to arrive in Australia. The local bookshops are accepting backorders for about $80, so the ebook was, in this case, the best option.

Very helpful guide indeed! Thank you!

The book looks great and I'm desperate to get a copy. I clicked through at http://www.drupalbook.com/ as instructed but Amazon says:

Availability: This title has not yet been released. You may order it now and we will ship it to you when it arrives. ...
Publisher: friends of ED (April 23, 2007)

Was "Pro Drupal Development" somehow released and then withdrawn?

just downloaded the ebook and very impressed. I really like the "pretty pictures" which explains Drupal much better than the other book by David Mercer, which although good in its own way is not as clear as yours. The node explanation in one paragraph explained something that has confused me for a year.

One small bit of feedback - can you put the names of the chapters into the ebook? It eases navigation as "Chapter 16" means nothing but "Chapter 16 - Sessions" does.

Brilliant! Great work John and Matt.

Got the eBook and love it.
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I practically read the whole thing yesterday, and there are about 20 dog-eared pages already to be references when I start a new project next week. Thanks for all the hard work.

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Ordered my copy from Amazon UK not long after reading this and it was due for release in the UK today, but I've just been contacted by Amazon to be told the release date's been put off my a month :-(

Any word from the inside as to if this is a realistic estimate?

I'm in the middle of a fairly hefty project at the moment and was really looking forward to having a decent reference (even paid for shipping for once!), so might have to bite the bullet and buy the PDF if it's really not going to be available for another month.

Is there any way to buy ebook somewhere else not at apress.com? Apress.com accepts only Paypal for online purchases and my country don't have access to paypal program, i want to pay via creadit card, are there any options?

I got my book about a week ago and I have been using it since. Web handbook is helpful, but the book seems to contains more dev information in organized manner. I love how diagrams explains processes of various types. I was putting snips of code to figure out what some of them were doing, and broke durpal by accidently fewt times :(! and no more of those!!!

I like to read my books on the go (ie. trains) so it works perfect for me! I wish I could of gotten this 4 months ago when I started my project! Having this would of eliminated stupid mistakes I made since this book explains everything so well!

I consider myself an advanced PHP programmer, however, understanding drupal frame work is very important to write successful modules/customization. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to customize drupal!

Happy Drupal and congrats on your dev book!
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I got my copy last week and have been reading and "using" it very heavily (it's already been on the beach, by the pool, and it already has coffee stains). It is just a great book. For me it really "fills in the blanks" ... I have been building Drupal modules etc. for about 6 months (after switching from another system), and while you pick up a lot by reading the online handbooks and studying other people's code, a book like this really ties everything together. It also explains how Drupal works "under the hood" which in turn makes it easier to understand why something needs to be done a certain way, or in a certain order.

-martin.

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Congrats. Will have to pick one up.

protoncannon.com

Are you really sure this books covers Drupal 5?

The book says to go to Administer > Settings, but this is found under Drupal 4.7, in Drupal 5 there is no Settings tab under the Administer menu.

Hey, just got mine directly from Apress as an ebook.

I have many Apress books and if I correctly remember this is the first one with a slightly different cover, it shows Druplicon on it :)

Congratulations to Matt, John and everybody else who helped.

Alexis Bellido
Ventanazul: web development and Internet business consulting shouldn't be boring

olalekan

I've recently fallen in love with Drupal after almost a year reseraching various CMS and strongly believe Drupal is the best opensource CMS on earth (how joomla won the packt award i don't know). My intention is to set up a small web consultancy using drupal. I have recently purchsed the ebook version of this book and i must say it is superb.

Having bought a number of opensource books this one is quite clear with well understandable writing. Everyone who intends to work with Drupal should own it.

Well done John and Matt

I purchased the book (Amazon, got it on April 17th or 18th) and today I got the $10 ebook. Fantastic work guys, this is a great book for would-be module writers like me. Thanks for the hard work! Hopefully you are well rewarded for your work.

This is a great book. My office uses Drupal to build web based tools and micro-sites in-house. Our copies arrived last night and right away the value has been tremendous. This book is a must have for anyone who looking to get a better understanding of Drupal and how to take it to the next level. As someone with very little programing skills, this book is perfect for helping me to connect the dots.

Hello, Would like to know if the book deals with the creation of custom themes and templates. I mean the conversion of html or other templates to drupal? There are quite a number of custom , beautiful drupal sites so there is definitely a way to create such sites. The problem is that the ones with the know-how just describe the process to people like me in a vague way. Is the creation or custom display of the site(home page) handled indept in this book?

I received my copy today.

Thumbs up for the Authors and as always the obligatory tip o the hat to all the Drupal Developers.

We have been using the well developed and sweetly hackable Drupal CMS for this last year and this book looks like it will fill in many of the gaps in knowledge that have cropped up during our development work.

- BottmanBros.com

It's at http://drupalib.interoperating.info/node/67 if you're interested. Way to go John and Matt, and thank you!

On page 15, we are told : "The line defining $form['array_filter'] is a bit mysterious; for now, it suffices to say that
it’s needed when you’re storing multiple check box values using the settings hook."

This is never explained thereafter in the book.

Does someone know why we have to use an 'array_filter' hidden field just because we are using checkboxes in a settings form ?

$form['array_filter'] = array('#type' => 'hidden');

Caroline
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Second Edition Covers Drupal 6!