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Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites: How to setup, configure and customise this powerful PHP/MySQL based Open Source CMS Review by J. Mulder
Partially adequate
I bought this book wanting to make a good start using Drupal as a CMS. Though the basic information still is quite adequate, it is disturbing to notice that the book is written with version 4.x in mind. It would have been nice to state that important fact somewhere very clear on the cover and also warn people for the implications if using the latest version of Drupal (6.x) together with this book. The implication is that about a quarter of the book renders practically useless because you find that modules/themes are not (yet) updated. Also inside the book there's no warning on this, let alone you are provided with some alternative information.
I'm a definitive fan of the Open Source concept, and I find that exactly this kind of non-informing users could be missed.
Other than that, the book is more or less okay, although I find the structure somewhat confusing at times and get the feel that it all was written in a rather hasty manner.