I'm looking at a fresh new copy of Drupal 5 Views Recipes. I wrote it, and I'm thrilled to see it in print.

I have a mix of Drupal 5 and Drupal 6 sites out there. If you've got any Drupal 5 sites, consider this book.

Appendices

I'll start by mentioning the appendices, since I think that's one of the most information-rich sections of the book. (The rest of the book consists of 94 step-by-step recipes.)

Appendix A – List of all default views available for Drupal 5
Appendix B – Comprehensive list of Drupal 5 field formatters, by module
Appendix C – Comprehensive list of Drupal 5 style plugins, by module
Appendix D – Views 1 hooks
Appendix E – Modules included in recipe ingredients
Appendix F – Additional resources and modules
Appendix G – Selected noteworthy patches to Views, sorted by topic

Appendix E can serve as an index to the recipes, and also includes a column indicating which modules are available for Drupal 6. Appendix G unlocks a whole host of functionality not available in Views 1 by default.

Recipes

Interesting content includes:
- How to overcome the case of the missing term in taxonomy views
- Views arguments
- Proximity search (Find every trailhead within 6 miles of a Senior Center, for instance)

- Views Bulk Operations (such as mass updates of taxonomy)
- Views Fusion, and the Views Fusion Node Reference patch
- Using !$ and Ctrl-U in command line editing
- Detailed steps for upgrading the Date and Calendar modules from 5.x-1.x to 5.x-2.x
- Three options for setting up cron
- Grouped views with the Views theme wizard
- Overriding themes_view_view
- Table of debugging techniques, including the author's favorites
- Browser plugin for searching the Contributions API page
- A quick way to format SQL queries for easier reading
- All the basic stuff, such as cloning views, using default views, sorting, filtering, etc.
- Exposed Filters
- Recipes for creating timelines, event listings, photo galleries, podcasting, panels, CCK Extras, etc.

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I'm hoping you'll find this book as useful as I do. (I've actually started following my own recipes; they get the job done.)

Here's some sample content from the book (from Chapters 3 and 8) :http://www.packtpub.com/article/date-calendar-module-in-drupal-5-part2http://www.packtpub.com/article/navigating-the-online-drupal-community

The book is available here:https://www.packtpub.com/drupal-5-views-recipes/book

Enjoy,

Marjorie Roswell

Drupal version: Drupal 5.x