Drupal's Building Blocks: Quickly Building Web Sites with CCK, Views, and Panels

by Earl Miles, Lynette Miles

“Even if you’re already a seasoned Drupal user of CCK, Views, or Panels, I’ve no doubt that this book will provide you with several new techniques and methods for getting the most out of these extremely essential modules. It certainly has for me.” — Dries Buytaert, founder and project lead of Drupal, and CTO of Acquia With Drupal, Web professionals can create full-featured Web sites with just a few clicks. Drupal’s core is compact and well documented, but much of Drupal’s immense power lies elsewhere—in external modules. Drupal’s Building Blocks is an authoritative tutorial, reference, and cookbook for Drupal’s most valuable modules. The authors are Drupal insiders who’ve spent years creating and supporting these modules—Earl Miles, developer of the Views and Panels modules, and Lynette Miles, Drupal documentation team member. They’ve brought together indispensable information you won’t find anywhere else, as well as extensive sample “recipe” code designed for easy adaptation and reuse. Learn how to This book will help you create more powerful, flexible, usable, and manageable Web sites—whether you’re a Web developer, designer, administrator, architect, or consultant. The accompanying Web site contains all examples, code, and themes presented in this book.

352 pages, Paperback

First published December 22, 2010

Reviews

[Charlene · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really an excellent book, clear and easy to follow. Some of the information is slightly out of date with Drupal 7 (such as fields in core) but it's still a very good guide to Drupal's building blocks, as the name says.

[Anyul · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some of it still works with Drupal 7