Building University Websites with the Drupal Content Management System

Building University Websites with the Drupal Content Management System Mark W. Jarrell Web Services Specialist Ofﬁce of Information Technology Austin Peay State University jarrellm@apsu.edu April 19th, 2010

What is Drupal?

Content Management System

5000+ Contributed Modules

Content Management Framework

Community © Chrys Rynearson

Doubles in Size Each Release

Statistics • 1000+ code contributors • 300+ local user groups • 2500+ attendees at Drupalcon SF 2010 • 750,000+ users on drupal.org • 3 million+ lines of code (core+contrib) • 250,000+ downloads/month Sources: http://groups.drupal.org, http://twitter.com/DrupalCon, http://drupal.org/user, http://www.webchick.net/ presentations/implementing-drupal-google, http://cms.phpmagazine.net/2009/07/ acquia_secures_8_million_and_b.html

Who uses Drupal?

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/

http://java.net/

http://www.hrw.org/

http://www.gouvernement.fr/

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

http://www.grammy.com/

http://www.swtor.com/

http://myplay.com/

http://www.beyonceonline.com

http://blog.thefray.net/

http://www.britney.com/

http://shc.stanford.edu/

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/

http://media.mit.edu/

https:// medschool.vanderbilt.edu/

http://www.cci.utk.edu/

Why do they use it?

Free Software $

Features

Control

Extensibility

Maturity

Security

IBM says... source: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-osource1/

How does Drupal work?

Architecture

Source: Dries Buytaert

Hook System

I’m displaying a list of permissions. Any modules have something to add?

$permissions = module_invoke_all(‘perm’); Blog Contact function blog_perm() { function contact_perm() { return array(‘edit own blog’); return array(‘access contact form’); } } $permissions = array(‘edit own blog’, ‘access contact form’, ...);

Node (content) System

node title body author created date ... article poll copyright choices results ﬁle attachments upload.module comments comments comment.module

Great contributed modules

CCK Add new ﬁelds to content types

Views Creating lists of nodes (query builder)

Organic Groups Private or public sub-sites

http://groups.drupal.org/ nashville-tennessee

Webform Gather information from your students faculty and staff

What does the future hold?

Drupal 6 Released 1st quarter 2008 Very stable Includes all features discussed today

Drupal 7 Releasing Summer 2010? Still in testing (alpha) New Features: Usability improvements Image handling and ﬁeld handling (CCK) included in core Focus on PHP 5 (no support for PHP 4)

Let’s see Drupal in action!

More Information http://drupal.org/handbook http://api.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org http://usingdrupal.com http://drupalbook.com http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites

Questions? Building University Websites with the Drupal Content Management System Mark W. Jarrell Web Services Specialist Ofﬁce of Information Technology Austin Peay State University jarrellm@apsu.edu April 19th, 2010

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