By mbutcher on

Drupal 6 javascript jquery
In October of 2008, Packt Publishing launched a pilot program called RAW (Read As we Write). In the RAW program, draft versions of each chapter are released as the author writes them. The initial book chosen for the pilot was Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery.

At the end of March, Packt sent the finished book to the printers. The final version, improved by copious feedback from the Drupal community, is now available in both e-book and soft cover.

Packt typically offers a discount of 10% to all Drupal.org users (as I understand it, that offer is also good for Learning Drupal 6 Module Development). But the community's involvement has been great on this project. To say thanks, Packt is allowing me to share my discount code here. To get 15% off of the purchase price of this book, order the book from PacktPub.com and enter the following code in the promotional code box during checkout: DrupalJSjQ15.

Packt also contributes a portion of every book sale back to Drupal. So purchasing any Packt book on Drupal provides financial support for the project.

So what's in this book?

Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery focuses on client-side scripting for Drupal. Along with the powerful jQuery library (included with Drupal 6), Drupal has some amazing JavaScript tools. This book explains integrating JavaScript into themes and modules, and covers several big topics including:

  • Creating Drupal Behaviors
  • Using jQuery in Drupal
  • Translating from JavaScript
  • Theming client-side content with Drupal JavaScript themes
  • Using AJAX technologies like JSON to dynamically refresh data
  • Adding cool widgets with jQuery UI
  • Extending JavaScript functionality with existing Drupal modules

The book is project based, and in the course of the eight chapters, we build an editor, a comments notification tool, an node rotator (complete with cool effects), webclips, a printer toolbar, an accordion menu, and other practically oriented tools.

Want to get a taste of the content before buying? Packt has made chapter 2 available as a free PDF download. (You can also get a free chapter from my previous book, Learning Drupal 6 Module Development.)

Again, a huge thanks to the community.

Matt Butcher

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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JohnForsythe’s picture

JohnForsythe commented

I was one of the early technical reviewers for this book, before it became part of the RAW program. Looks like a lot of cool stuff made it in since then. jQuery UI is really awesome. If you've never used it before, I'm sure this book will be a good introduction. Good work :)

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px commented

I have to agree, Packt was nice enough to supply me with a copy for doing a review. I really enjoyed reading it.

tjholowaychuk’s picture

tjholowaychuk commented

Hope it helps the Drupal developers suck less at javascript :D

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tjholowaychuk commented

If I would have known you were working on it you could have added in some BDD development stuff (http://visionmedia.github.com/jspec/)

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lpt6 commented

Good to hear that as i am struggling in Jquery for drupal

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mbutcher commented

Could someone with the requisite permissions set the article above to display the cover image? It would be nice to be able to see the cover instead of having to link off to the image.

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Flying Drupalist commented

What's the editor? Can you give more information about that?

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joemoraca commented

I am enjoying reading through this. It's well done just like your Module Development book

THanks

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clivesj commented

I bought the RAW book and like this concept very much. Half a year before release of the book you can start building your knowledge and you already have insight where it is going.
Matt does a really good job into trying to take the reader that has no previous knowledge by the hand by explaining everything carefully and slowly. The resulting learning curve is shallow.
The only critic I have is that maybe this pace is a bit too slow for more experienced readers.
I would like recommend this book.

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commented

Congrats Matt!

A much needed book, I look forward to getting a copy.

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flabat commented

Enter the discount code in the packt cart page, not Paypal

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calebgilbert commented

Bought the hard copy and the ebook last night. Can't recommend it enough. Great book. :-)

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syscrusher commented

I have the Packt book on jQuery and like it very much. This book seems to fill the gap between jQuery in general and Drupal. I just bought the hardcopy/ebook bundle, and have no review comments yet because I obviously haven't had time to read it yet. :-) But I did want to say kudos to the publisher for the RAW concept that involves the community, and kudos for DRM-free PDFs that I can conveniently back up and restore, use on my both my main and ultralight laptop, etc. They put in a serial number to protect their intellectual property, and I have no problem with that. It protects their IP without inconveniencing my legitimate use of the book for which I've paid -- a fair compromise.

Kind regards,

Scott

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danny_joris commented

My bookshop says it's already sold out and there is not going to be a reprint. Is there any way i can still get this book? I guess i can get the .pdf version but i dont like reading that way at all...

Thanks in advance.
Danny

tjholowaychuk’s picture

tjholowaychuk commented

Someone should make an interactive tour of Drupal using http://visionmedia.github.com/jquery-event-playback/

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sanya_ukr commented

drupal, jquery and ajax.

I was realy upset when start reading book.

Book full of 'water' about everithing, but not connected to triple druapl+jquery+AJAX. It may well squized in 10 times.

You have to read to much pages for find what you rally need.

It is a WONDERFULL book for advertismet purpose, it tells about all technologies from capture, hovewer it tells to little about using drupal, jquery and AJAX together.

if you wont to know about using this technologies together I advise use alternative sources

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MiMe commented

Looks like I have to purchase this book! Although I know have used jQuery and made Ajax calls in Drupal already it's always nice to read a book about the subject!

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aloy_mdu’s picture

aloy_mdu commented

This book is really helpful to me. We can do much things in drupal using jquery.

Thanks,
Aloy

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tdayog commented

Hi, I downloaded the book's source code and am not able to get the chapter 3 code working as downloaded. I created content with 50 stories, marking 3 of them to be on the front page, published, and sticky. They show up first of the 50 stories, with a gray background, but do not fade in/out. Anyone else have this issue?

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tdayog commented

I looked at the "Recent Log Entries" and noticed: Page not found: sites/all/modules/devel/ui.draggable.js
This indicated that I am missing the ui.js files. I did a search on the Drupal Modules and downloaded JQuery UI module and installed and enabled it. Also, the README directed me to download the UQuery Update module and install it following their directions. Works now.