A definate must for Drupal Sites | Cracking Drupal: A Drop in the Bucket

Enjoyable to read. Good for both experienced and beginners | Cracking Drupal: A Drop in the Bucket | Greg Knaddison

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	• Cracking Drupal: A Drop in the Bucket Greg Knaddison Wiley, 2009 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Not for the non-expert

I bought this based on the reviews. I'm pretty good with code and web sites, but this book was totally Greek. The biggest problem I've found with Drupal is you can't really do it yourself if you want to do it right. You need to hire people and that eliminates a lot of users who would like to use a content management systems.

A definate must for Drupal Sites

I'm still in the process of reading this book but have found it very helpful in making my Drupal sites more secure. The only thing I'm disappointed in is some of the modules recommended are still in Development state which means they are not ready for production sites. I know the development of a module is not in the author's control but one would think that when writing a book you would look at modules that site owner can use now. This book does tell what to look at when choosing module so that you know your site is more secure. Over all I'm glad I made the purchase and do recommend it if you have a drupal site.

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Enjoyable to read. Good for both experienced and beginners

I've been working with Drupal for 5 years now and have read several books about Drupal. By far this is the most enjoyable to read. It isn't dry but rather easy to read and I've learned quite a bit about security issues.

Only problems are the author talks about some Vulnerable module several time in the the book and so far (haven't finished the book yet) there are no code samples from that module. Example on page 60: "The Vulnerable module contains an example of this problem" . However the author doesn't go into any details on what the example is. I would like to see some code snippets on the Vulnerable module. I have yet to download and look at the module, but I wish it wasn't a requirement. The book is not very long so it could use some more pages of code.

Also other strangeness I noticed the author keeps switching between "he" and "she" throughout the book. Not sure why.

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Concise and illuminating

Within 24 hours of reading this book I found and patched a XSS attack on my site at work. It's well written, to the point, and informative. The author goes above and beyond explaining Drupal exploits and shows you how to track them down in the wild using the Drupal CVS repository. Most helpful is knowing how to properly use Drupal's built in security measures that take much of the weight of developing secure code off your shoulders.

Highly recommended resource

Cracking Drupal contains tons of very useful and insightful information from a very knowledgeable person on security both general and Drupal-specific. It shows how Drupal has so many great built-in security measures, but for the most part it's up to the developers and site maintainers to make sure that they are implemented.

I'd highly recommend this as a resource for any Drupal developers as well as anyone that is maintaining a Drupal sites for clients.

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The first book to reveal the vulnerabilities and security issues that exist in the sites that have been built with Drupaland how to prevent them from continuing Drupal is an open source framework and content management system that allows users to create and organize content, customize presentation, automate tasks, and manage site visitors and contributors. Authored by a Drupal expert, this is the first book to reveal the vulnerabilities and security issues that exist in the sites that have been built with Drupaland how to prevent them from continuing. The main goal of this guide is to explain how to write code that avoids an attack in the Drupal environment, while also addressing how to proceed if vulnerability has been spotted and then regain control of security.

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