Drupal 7. Od podstaw

by Todd Tomlinson, Julia Szajkowska (Translator)

This book focuses on the nontechnical user who is responsible for building, maintaining, and managing Drupal web sites. The book covers why you should consider using Drupal when building a new web site, what Drupal is, installing and configuring Drupal, creating and managing content, managing users, adding functionality to your web site through Drupal modules, and more advanced topics on using themes, panels, and views. By reading this book, you will:

Understand why you should use Drupal and the power of the platform. Quickly build confidence in your ability to use Drupal. Gain the knowledge necessary to build, deploy, and manage web sites of moderate complexity on Drupal 7. What you’ll learn What Drupal is and why you should use it How to install a basic Drupal web site from scratch How to create content in your new Drupal web site How to manage users on your new Drupal web site How to change the look and feel of your new Drupal web site through themes How to install and configure modules Who this book is for

This book is for nontechnical users who need to use Drupal to manage content, as well as PHP developers who are new to Drupal.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Drupal1 Creating and Managing Content Creating and Managing Users Taxonomy Creating Menus Installing Themes Drupal Blocks Drupal Modules Enabling Interactive Capabilities Content Types Views Panels Theming Administering Your Drupal Site Putting It All Together Case Study

Genres: Education, Nonfiction

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Miloš · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fast reading. Good examples. And for the beginner like me very insightful

[Darrell Ulm · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent way to get into Drupal, although now one would likely want to look at Drupal 8 more, even so this is a solid background and has the historical information for Drupal 7 which is still in production at the time of this review.

[Chris Chinchilla · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book focuses on the nontechnical user who is responsible for building, maintaining, and managing Drupal web sites. The book covers why you should consider using Drupal when building a new web site, what Drupal is, installing and configuring Drupal, creating and managing content, managing users, adding functionality to your web site through Drupal modules, and more advanced topics on using themes, panels, and views. By reading this book, you will:

Understand why you should use Drupal and the power of the platform. Quickly build confidence in your ability to use Drupal. Gain the knowledge necessary to build, deploy, and manage web sites of moderate complexity on Drupal 7. What you’ll learn What Drupal is and why you should use it How to install a basic Drupal web site from scratch How to create content in your new Drupal web site How to manage users on your new Drupal web site How to change the look and feel of your new Drupal web site through themes How to install and configure modules Who this book is for

This book is for nontechnical users who need to use Drupal to manage content, as well as PHP developers who are new to Drupal.

Table of Contents Introduction to Drupal Creating and Managing Content  Creating and Managing Users  Taxonomy   Creating Menus Installing Themes  Drupal Blocks  Drupal Modules  Enabling Interactive Capabilities   Content Types   Views   Panels   Theming  Administering Your Drupal Site   Putting It All Together  Case Study   About the Author

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[Glenn · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a long time web developer but newbie to Drupal, I found Tomlinson's book delivers with a great structure that walked me through the basics. The final chapters on administering the site and site building methodology are spot on. I found some of the example sections, particularly Panels and Theming, to be quite out of date with the current version of Drupal. If you are not comfortable sorting through the complexities yourself you might be frustrated.

Also, the errata section for the book on the Apress site is unfortunately useless. I totally understand that the book was done early and there will be discrepancies - why not fix the chapter errors and publish them to the site? Their failure to help us book purchasers out will give me pause before buying from this publisher.

Even with the caveats, I am really glad I got this book, and I feel ready to build a basic Drupal site and am eager to get started.

[Hendry Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Didn't read this book from cover to cover, but it is a good introductory book for people who want to start building a web site with Drupal 7. It covers the basics, including some powerful modules like panels and views. Although this book is for beginners, don't expect you could easily get through it unless you already have moderate skills in building web sites because you need to at least understand CSS, for example, when reading the chapter about theming.

[Rod · Rating 2 out of 5]

Truly a beginner book. A little to basic in my opinion. If you want a very high level overview at Drupal 7 this is your book. Keep in mind that Drupal 7 has not been released as of Oct 6th so the interfaces may change. I have been working with it and it looks pretty close still. People who have used Drupal 6 to any extent can skip this one.

[Bob · Rating 2 out of 5]

You can learn to set up a usable and interesting site using this book, but the writing can be repetitive, the copy editing is bad (readers are twice referred to Chapter 3 to find information in Chapter 6) and the choice and positioning of illustrations is confusing.

[Leslie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good entry point for beginners, gets the job done. Not very exciting and quite basic (almost insultingly so).

[Bruce · Rating 3 out of 5]

Worth a thumb-thru for topics of interest

[Điep Đinh · Rating 4 out of 5]

good