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I posted already here several post in order to get more help... and very often I got it. So thank you the Drupal community... But with this post my purpse is not to post another problem request... ;-)
As many I found it was not always easy to have a good overview of Drupal when you begin. There is many good "book" here but it's just a part of the global information you need.
I just buy this week end the Robert Douglass book "Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress " and it found it excellent.
What I really appreciate with this book was a general overview on Drupal who don't forget the technical side. It explains also a lot of features around phptemplate and good in deep review and explanation of image processing in Drupal, along many others features.
So if you want to have a reference documentation who can be very helpful in order to master the power of Drupal, I just want to say that this book is a very good response. Thank you Douglass !
More info :
http://drupal.org/node/42201
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Thank you for the nice review!
I'm really glad that all the work that went into it is paying off =)
- Robert Douglass
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My Drupal book: Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB and WordPress
Drupal part only
Probably a silly request - but, I would very much like to buy the Drupal part of the book, without the crap.
Drupal Part Only
If it were an ebook, it would be a whole lot easier, the publisher would just need to republish a portion of it. However, with the dead tree edition, it is a bit harder.
I concur. It is an excellent
I concur. It is an excellent reference documentation.
Robert, I just noticed a few things that I want to flag for your attention.
1.) In Exercise 1.1, it says, 'At the bottom of the content-creation form, click the Menu Item Settings link to expand the options. These settings...'
Isn't it true that these menu settings don't appear until you have menu_otf enabled?
2.) In Exercise 1.2, it says, 'Find the Free Tagging check box and check it...'.
There doesn't seem to be such a checkbox even in a 4.6.5 install.
3.) In the description about Organic Groups, I didn't find a reference to the folksonomy part mentioned in OG's readme.txt:
Drupal 4.7 ---- changes since September
Thanks for bringing these up.
The points in 1 and 2 apply to the Drupal 4.7 codebase. When the book was planned, we estimated (wrongly) that Drupal 4.7 would be in a code freeze or release candidate when I was finished writing. Therefore the book is written to apply to 4.7. These two features, menu creation and free tagging are built in features in 4.7, but the exercises apply equally well to 4.6 with menu_otf and the free tagging modules enabled. It was a flat out oversight and mistake that this wasn't made explicitly clear in the book. One of the difficult things about books is that they're soo darn hard to update =)
As to the organic groups issue, the module has simply changed dramatically since I finished writing. Please refer to the og documentation for the most current instructions, and ignore any information in the book that doesn't seem to fit with the most current version.
- Robert Douglass
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My Drupal book: Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB and WordPress
Thanks!
Thanks!
Is there a separate free tagging module for 4.6? Or do you mean Morbus' freetagging patch backported to 4.6?
That's what I meant. Thanks!
- Robert Douglass
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My Drupal book: Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB and WordPress
post Douglas book outline in documentation
I have also found Robert Douglas' book valuable. I'd like to suggest that we post its table of contents on this site, maybe in documentation. that way when we search for "multiple sites" it'll tell us whether it's covered in Robert's book without us having to search this site, search Google for the Bryght manuals, and physically pick up Robert's book. We could provide a link to Amazon where users can buy the book.
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