Great Introduction | Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress

A great book for web designers. For programmers, not so much. | Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress | Robert T. Douglass, Mike Little, ...

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	• Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress Robert T. Douglass, Mike Little, ... Apress, 2005 - 560 pages average customer review:based on 28 reviews view larger image
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Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and Wordpress

Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and Wordpress was very helpful. I found the sections very helpful and easy to understand.

Great Introduction

This is a great introduction, at least to Drupal version 4.

Note that the administration menus are significantly different for the current Drupal 5 release. I wonder if a revision is in the works?

A great book for web designers. For programmers, not so much.

Carefully designed and clearly written, this book is an effective introduction to PHP for anyone who has at least a little experience with web design. It is built around simple step-by-step examples which illustrate the principles being explained. These are clearly designed to minimize the trauma of learning a programming language for the code-phobic. The reader can follow along on the keyboard and build confidence by experimenting with variations.

For programmers, who already understand most of PHP's basic concepts, this approach can be frustrating. The book spends pages demonstrating things that could be explained in a paragraph or two.

You can learn PHP from this book whatever your background, but if you have already mastered another programming language, you'll be better off with a book that teaches PHP from that point of view.

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Content management, blogs, and online forums are among the most significant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most popular open source applications facilitating these trends.

Drupal is a full content management system that allows you to create any type of website you desire, from an e-commerce to a community-based site. phpBB enables you to set up a bulletin board or forum. And WordPress is the software of choice for the exploding blog community. All three technologies are based on PHP and MySQL.

Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and Wordpress is authored by a team of experts. Robert T. Douglass recently created the Drupal-powered blog site NowPublic.com. Mike Little is a founder and contributing developer of the WordPress project. And Jared W. Smith has been a longtime support team member of phpBBHacks.com and has been building sites with phpBB since the first beta releases.

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