Introduction to Drupal

Drupal

Bird’s eye view

Bird’s eye view (1) • What is Drupal ? • Where does it come from ? • What can I do with it ? • Who’s using it ? • Who’s who in Drupal ? • Some cool features ?

Bird’s eye view (2) • How is a Drupal site built ? • What skills are involved in a good Drupal site ? • Where is Drupal now ? • Does Drupal play well with others ?

What is Drupal ?

Deﬁni7on Drupal is a completely free, open source content management system that many intelligent companies are using today to provide for their needs. Drupal's many features and add-‐ons allow it to be used for a variety of website needs; perhaps for marke7ng, internal communica7ons, informa7onal websites, or for social networking purposes. If a needed feature is not currently available, it has a proven community of developers who can be paid to do the work for you. Drupal's access control system means that it can be easily applied to your organiza7onal structure. Overall, Drupal is a good choice for today's companies of any size because it is free, easy, and incredibly ﬂexible.

CMS/ CMF • Content Management System • Content Management Framework • Community Management System • CommunicaDon Management System

Built on LAMP / MAMP / WAMP Drupal PHP Apache MySQL Linux (Windows / OS X / Solaris)

GPL license

Architecture Transla7ons Themes proﬁles Install Modules Core

Pluggable Custom Contribute Core Transla7ons Themes Themes Themes proﬁles Install Modules Modules Modules Core

Where does it come from ?

Dries Buytaert • Drupal founder • Belgian ciDzen • Discussion board for his dorm (drop.org) • Open sourced in 2001

The name • dorp.org misregistered as drop.org • drop is english for “druppel” • drupal is english rendering for “druppel”

What can I do with it ?

Corporate

Photo galleries

Video galleries

Forums

E-‐commerce

E-‐learning

Community

Contests

Events

Intranet

ApplicaDons

Who’s using it ?

Corporate

Non-‐proﬁt

EducaDon

SoZware

PoliDcs

ArDsts

Health

Magazines

Entertainment

Government

Who’s who in Drupal ?

Dries Buytaert • Founder and lead developer • Permanent core commi[er • Trademark owner

Branch maintainers Neil Drumm (D5) Gabor Hojtsy (D6) Angie Byron (D7)

Maintainers and contributors • Maintainers • Core contributors • Module contributors • Theme contributors • TranslaDon contributors • DocumentaDon contributors

Drupal agencies

Acquia • Acquia Drupal (DistribuDon) • Acquia Network (Monitoring, CRON, Docs, Forum, ...) • Search (Apache Solr) • Professional Services (Training, Audits, ...)

Some cool features ?

Cool != the usual suspects... • Content creaDon • Taxonomy • Menu • PublicaDon status • User management • Permissions • ...

Blocks

Content ConstrucDon Kit (1)

Content ConstrucDon Kit (2)

Views (1)

Views (2)

MulDlingual sites

Interface translaDon

Content translaDon

Form builder (1)

Form builder (2)

Form builder (3)

Clean URLs

Image presets

Scheduling

MulDsite

How is a Drupal site built ?

Premises • InformaDon Architecture • Usability • Design

Select exisDng modules that implement some funcDonality

Code custom modules for missing funcDonality

Conﬁgure

Create a theme for custom look and feel

Tweaking

Launch

Champagne

Maintenance

What skills are involved in a good Drupal site ?

Some programming

Some client side stuﬀ

Some design

Some server stuﬀ

Some spicy extras

Some common sense

Where is Drupal now ?

Tons of acDve installaDons

... and growing

Lots of high proﬁle installaDons

Lots of press coverage

Gartner puts Drupal in the visionary quadrant

Keeps winning awards

Investments in the trademark

1000s of modules and themes

TranslaDons for 100 languages

1000s of developers

Lots of events

drupal.org redesign

new logo

Drupal 7

Does Drupal play well with others ?

Does Drupal play well with others? • Open standards (RDF, OpenID, OpenSocial, ...) • IntegraDon with exisDng plahorms (phpBB, magento, ...) • IntegraDon with social media, ... • No data lock-‐in. • MulD plahorm.

QuesDons ?

Contact • Davy Van Den Bremt • davy.vandenbremt@calibrate.be • twi[er.com/davyvandenbremt • drupalcoder.com • drupal.org/user/185175

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