I’ve taken the plunge and bought a book on Drupal. I think I’ve taken my Christian social networking site based on Drupal as far as I can without having any formal knowledge of Drupal CMS. You can do just so much using intuition and hacking and smacking code to get it to work. Injecting your own code to get CMS programmes to work can be dangerous especially with popular open source programmes. These scripts tend to be targeted by hackers – it does not matter if it’s Drupal, Joomla, wordpress or zencart. The open source community is pretty quick at picking up and issuing security patches but if you’ve hacked core code or modules then you my have problems maintaining security and integrity of your site. So it’s time to learn the basics of Drupal in a more formal fashion.
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