October 2015
Beginner to intermediate
238 pages
6h 24m
English
Content preview from Programmer's Guide to Drupal, 2nd Edition
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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. My hope is that with the aid of this book, you will pass smoothly through the stage of being a novice Drupal programmer, while avoiding 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, you can look forward to many enjoyable and fruitful years of programming with Drupal.
Note
Probably every experienced Drupal programmer has a slightly different definition of the Drupal way of programming, although there are many commonalities. My interpretation of the Drupal way is set out in Chapters 2 and 3; I’ve tried to stick to the commonalities in the definition that most Drupal programmers would agree on.
Intended Audience
The first edition of 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. My main goal in the first edition was 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.
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