Millwood Online

As mentioned in previous posts I am writing a Drupal book. I can officially announce the book will be entitled “Professional Drupal Module development”, it will be published by Wrox Press, who are a brand of Wiley, the book will fall into their Professional series.

When I first started working with Drupal the prospect of writing a module was a scary one. There were two Drupal books at the time, “Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress” by Robert Douglass et al, and “Pro Drupal Development” by John VanDyk and Matt Westgate. The first is great book, and was a great introduction to Drupal 5, but the second was a little scary. There are now many Drupal books covering many topics giving developers a wide range of ideas and views, Professional Drupal Module Development will give more ideas and another view to the ever growing Drupal community.

Professional Drupal module development will introduce the reader to the whole idea of Drupal modules, how they work, what they do, and how they’re constructed. The book will then work through the module development process chapter by chapter, easing the reader into the module development process.

After looking at what a module is, the book will move on to cover a handful of functions and hooks per chapter, one or two mini module examples will be given for each collection of hooks to give a real world example of how it can be used.

Stay tuned for more information, updates will be posted here and on http://professionaldrupal.com/