Is there a Drupal 7 book that gets into the heart of drupal system, discusses theming, essential and desirable modules and their use, tips and tricks, some coding, and such like but does not spend more than half the book on 'what is drupal', 'introduction', 'preface', 'installation', 'setup', etc. Something that says: --If you do this -that will happen, heres why! --If you do 'a', it causes x,y,z problems down the track! --Rules does this and you need to know these tricks to make life easier! --How to reorganise the look and feel of Forms so there's no need to scroll pages down to fill in 20 fields. --Panels are good for a or b but can cause a problem because they do things differently than cck - heres an explanation! --And you can't easily switch between panels and cck because once the module is configured it overrides the basic cck.
Golly if a person has investigated and used drupal for a year or two, do they really need that intro rubbish repeated ad nauseum? I've checked out many of the books on offer and they seem to treat drupal users like dummies, writers avoid nitty gritty until the last chapters. Please, Are there any good books out there? thanks Roger
More advanced subjects like you've mentioned aren't covered well in books because these issues are very specific to site needs and can be accomplished in many different ways. Help is usually better served by IRC, handbook pages, API documentation, groups.drupal.org or issue queues on drupal.org.
Books cater more to introductory topics because these topics are straightforward and work better in a narrative format. Specific topics also change rapidly with time; outside of very general information, books have difficulty staying timely.
If you aren't having luck with http://drupal.org/books, you will probably have better luck exploring the channels listed here http://drupal.org/community
Carl Wiedemann Website design and development consulting carl.wiedemann@gmail.com | skype: c4rlww
All true nevertheless I would recommend Pro Drupal 7 Development.
tony mac is building web sites.
-----Original Message----- From: Carl Wiedemann carl.wiedemann@gmail.com Sender: support-bounces@drupal.org Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:57:25 To: support@drupal.org Reply-To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] Drupal 7 tutorials