Want to buy a D7 module development book - will it be relevant for D8 as well?

Posted by rougekris on December 22, 2012 at 8:25pm

For reference, this is the one I'm talking about:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Drupal-Module-Development-Matt-Butcher/dp/184951...

If I buy this, is it going to be relevant in the upcoming Drupal 8 as well? I think that may have a bearing on whether or not I buy this book.

Thanks guys,
Kris

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No. Drupal 8 will be a

Posted by bojanz on December 22, 2012 at 10:16pm

No.

Drupal 8 will be a radical rewrite, which means most of the book will be outdated. It happened the same way for Drupal 6 -> Drupal 7.
On the other hand, you probably don't want to wait a year for D8 to come out in order to start learning Drupal. That learning curve isn't going anywhere, so start climbing it sooner rather than later ;)

Thanks bojanz, I appreciate

Posted by rougekris on December 23, 2012 at 8:47pm

Thanks bojanz, I appreciate you taking the time to reply.

Should I just download the D8 source and start playing around with it instead? Or is it built on a specific PHP framework that I can find a book for?

Appreciate it!

Kris

Learn Drupal 7 first. Drupal

Posted by bojanz on December 23, 2012 at 9:02pm

Learn Drupal 7 first.
Drupal 8 is still in development, which means that it might look radically different 6 months from now (especially since not every part of the codebase uses the newly introduced APIs).
You can look into the Symfony 2 components to see what's at the core of Drupal 8.