Drupal 7 Module Development by Matt Butcher

by John Wilkins

Excellent Book

Genres: Programming, Technical, Web

Paperback Bunko

First published December 3, 2010

About the author

John Wilkins has been a web developer for a long time. In April 1993, he was one of the lucky few to use the very first graphical web browser, Mosaic 1.0, and he's been doing web development professionally since 1994. In 2005, John finally learned how idiotic it is to build your own web application framework and discovered the power of Drupal; he never looked back. In the Drupal community, he is best known as JohnAlbin, one of the top 20 contributors to Drupal 7 and the maintainer of the Zen theme, which is a highly-documented, feature-rich "starter" theme with a powerfully flexible CSS framework. He has also written several front-end-oriented utility modules, such as the Menu Block module. John currently works with a bunch of really cool Drupal developers, designers, and themers at Palantir.net.

Reviews

[Darrell Ulm · Rating 4 out of 5]

While it cannot possibly cover everything for the Drupal 7 API, this is a solid book for getting the background to write custom code and/or contributed Drupal 7 modules.

[Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

Why does the world work the way it does? A question I've been asking myself for a long time. I finally realized it has a lot to do with hook_form_alter();

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got a job doing Drupal development. I read this book over the weekend to prepare for my first day. By Monday, I knew how to use Drupal better than anyone at the office. Great book.

[Hellowhill · Rating 5 out of 5]

While I roughly skimmed this book, I find out some important infomation for me about tools, methods and enough details. A nutritious book!!

[Gyratefiber · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gives concrete examples when using it as a reference.

[Rohit Tiwari · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good book. Explained Drupal 7 nicely to build the conceptual understanding of Drupal CMS. Still I refer This book whenever in dilemma or any associated topics comes up