December 2012
Beginner to intermediate
114 pages
2h 46m
English
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Preface
Welcome! This book is meant to launch you into the world of programming with the open-source web content management system known as Drupal. Hopefully, with the aid of this book, you will pass smoothly through the stage of being a novice Drupal programmer, while avoiding making the mistakes that many expert Drupal programmers made in their first Drupal programming endeavors. If you make an effort to learn the "Drupal Way" of programming and follow the guidelines in this book, you can look forward to many enjoyable and fruitful years of programming with Drupal.
Intended Audience
This book was written primarily for people with a background in programming who are new to using and programming with Drupal. If you fit this profile, the main reason to read this book is that whatever your programming background, your experiences have taught you certain lessons—and only some of them apply well to Drupal. This book aims to make you aware of which lessons are which, and help you make a successful transition to being an expert Drupal programmer: someone who knows just how and where to apply your programming skills to have the greatest effect.
This book should also be useful for the following audiences:
- Anyone working with Drupal who wants to understand how it works "under the hood."
- Drupal site builders and themers who have realized they need to do some programming for customization, and want to do it "the Drupal way."
- Drupal users who want to contribute to the Drupal open-source project ...
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