Mediocre and Out Of Date

I bought this book hoping to get up to speed quickly on the very exciting Drupal platform. Unfortunately, this book was targeted at Drupal 4.7 Users. I started using 5.5 (as of today they have a version 6 release candidate), and quickly discovered that half the information in the book did not match up. There has been a major reorganization of the administrative pages, leaving the information given you more likely to confuse than inform.

My other major objection is that the information is cursory, and does not really provide you with the skills needed to build a real site. If they had done this book well, you would have been walked through building a basic real site, so you could understand everything in context. There is nothing like that here. It is basically piecemeal information that is available online, though a bit more thorough with some exercises scattered throughout to demonstrate concepts.

Unless you intend to use Version 4 of Drupal for some reason, save yourself some money and frustration and wait for an updated version.

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