Introduction to Drupal for (non-Drupal) developers

Drupal An introduction to Drupal for developers

Bird’s eye view

Bird’s eye view (1) • What is Drupal? • Where does it come from? • Who's who in Drupal? • Some cool features • Recommended modules • Module development • Theming

Bird’s eye view (2) • Performance • Where to ﬁnd informaGon? • Books • The future

What is Drupal ?

DeﬁniGon 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 markeGng, internal communicaGons, informaGonal 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 organizaGonal 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 • CommunicaGon Management System

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

GPL license

Architecture TranslaGons Themes proﬁles Install Modules Core

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

Where does it come from ?

Dries Buytaert • Drupal founder • Belgian ciGzen • 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”

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 • TranslaGon contributors • DocumentaGon contributors

Acquia • Acquia Drupal (DistribuGon) • Acquia Network (Monitoring, CRON, Docs, Forum, ...) • Search (Apache Solr) • HosGng (Drupal gardens and hosGng) • Professional Services (Training, Audits, ...)

Some cool features

Cool != the usual suspects... • Content creaGon • Taxonomy • Menu • PublicaGon status • User management • Permissions • ...

Blocks

Content ConstrucGon Kit (1)

Content ConstrucGon Kit (2)

Views (1)

Views (2)

MulGlingual sites

Interface translaGon

Content translaGon

Form builder (1)

Form builder (2)

Form builder (3)

Clean URLs

Image presets

Scheduling

MulGsite

Recommended modules

Recommended modules (1) • CCK • Views • Filefield (Imagefield, Filefield Sources) • IMCE (IMCE Crop, IMCE Mkdir) • Scheduler • Webform • Pathauto

Recommended modules (2) • I18N • ApacheSOLR • Google AnalyGcs • ImageCache (ImageAPI) • Pathologic • SpamSpan • Mollom

Module development

Module folder

.info ﬁle

.module ﬁle with hook_menu

Form API

drupal_alter

DB API

Theming

hook_theme

Performance

Performance • Caching API (cache_get and cache_set) • System caching (page, block, ...) • Boost • Pressﬂow • Varnish • Memcache

Where to ﬁnd informaGon ?

Drupal website • h_p://drupal.org • News • Download Drupal, modules, themes, translaGons, installaGon proﬁles, ... • Bug reports • Discussion groups • Forums

Check project usage h_p://drupal.org/ project/usage

Drupal API reference h_p://api.drupal.org

Drupal handbook • h_p://drupal.org/handbook • Wiki • InstallaGon, module installaGon, module help, performance Gps, hosGng Gps, how to contribute, ...

drupalmodules.com • h_p://drupalmodules.com • Unoﬃcial • Search engine for modules • Reviews, raGngs, ...

Aggregators • Drupal Planet • h_p://drupal.org/planet • DrupalFire • h_p://drupalﬁre.com

Other • RSS feeds (h_p://drupal.org/node/63589) • IRC (h_p://drupal.org/irc) • Mailing lists (h_p://drupal.org/mailing-‐lists) • Security (h_p://drupal.org/security)

More... h_p://drupal.org/books

The future

drupal.org redesign

new logo

Drupal 7

QuesGons ?

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

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