Productivity without limits CCK, VIEWS & PANELS

Productivity without limits CCK, VIEWS & PANELS First edition Hagen Graf http://cocoate.com http://twitter.com/hagengraf

The target group of this talk ... has a rough idea of ● why using databases (good start) ● the idea of lego bricks (optional but helpful) ● how to find hints on drupal.org (important) ● HTML, CSS, Firefox, Firebug, FTP, Editor (important) ● PHP, GIMP, Photoshop (optional) ● being creative (not always bad) ● writing an invoice (necessary to survive :-) ) 2

I assume this is not like you :-) Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/awarnach/3483532628/ 3

Better? Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michale/105825096/ 4

The client often wants to have something very complicated Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/reinante/3746991396 5

Client's focus 1 Quality Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/elaws/4039318594/ 6

Client's focus 2 Fast completion Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/30046478@N08/3562725745/ 7

Client's focus 3 Cheap Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/35188692@N00/143210068/ 8

Your reply in the past You can only have two of them! • cheap & fast completion → (NO quality) • cheap & quality → (NOT fast) • fast completion & quality → (oh la la - NOT cheap :-) ) 9

One possible solution developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing 10

Problems • Module updates • Core hacking • Scalability • Costs • Communication • Documentation • Finding developers 11

Another possible solution ● Use the drupal “lego bricks“, for example CCK, VIEWS & PANELS ● Learn to find the right modules ● Use your developer know-how to contribute to the drupal project and make the bricks better 12

Hint for hardcore web agencies it is possible to earn money ... by honest consulting … by using the pre-built bricks everything is more transparent to your clients and of course for you too :-) 13

Blogpost Dries - May 3, 2006 - 17:40 “We want users, not developers, to be able to create custom content types from within Drupal's administration interface.“ “The current code name for this project is the "content construction kit" (CCK). The project's goal is to allow users to create custom content types in Drupal through the web.“ http://buytaert.net/custom-content-types 14

Drupal 6 core (2009) by using a browser - you can ● create new content types ● assign access rights to different roles (create, edit, delete) ● assign taxonomy vocabularies to your new content type ● change the design by editing node-....tpl.php 15

Have you ever read README.txt? Content Construction Kit ------------------------ NOTE: Install the advanced_help module (http://drupal.org/project/advanced_help) to access more help (writing still in progress...) 16

Why CCK? It has a ● text.module ● number.module ● userreference.module ● nodereference.module for creating additional fields in content-types 17

Why CCK? It has an ● optionswidget.module ● fieldgroup.module for creating additional radio & checkboxes and group fields together in collapsible fieldsets 18

Why CCK? It has a ● content_permissions.module for assigning field based access rights to roles 19

Thank you for CCK Maintainers The Content Construction Kit was originally developed by: ● John Van Dyk ● Jonathan Chaffer Current maintainers: ● Karen Stevenson ● Yves Chedemois And many other contributors 20

A few useful modules for my work ● Date ● Embedded Media Field ● FileField ● Node Relationships ● ImageField ● Corresponding node references ● MP3 Player ● Node Reference URL Widget 21

Date ● A date field 22

File field ● Upload a file 23

Imagefield Use it for images 24

Gallery Widget for ImageField http://drupal.org/project/galleria Example http://bloghouse.org/de/galerie-im-blogeintrag 25

Mp3 player widget for FileField http://drupal.org/project/mp3player Example http://www.evangelisch.de/maerchen/der-mit-dem-frosch-knutscht 26

Embedded field http://drupal.org/project/emfield Video: Blip.TV, Brightcove, Daily Motion, Google, Guba, JumpCut, imeem, Lastfm, LiveVideo, MetaCafe, MySpace, Revver, SevenLoad, Spike.TV, Tudou, Veoh, Vimeo, YouTube, Local videos (when already uploaded in the files directory) Image: Flickr, ImageShack, PhotoBucket, Picasa Audio: Odeo, Podcast Alley, podOmatic 27

Embedded field 28

Node Relationships http://drupal.org/project/noderelationships See also http://cocoate.com/node/463 29

Node Relationships Node references via Popup – so cool :-) See also http://cocoate.com/node/463 30

Node references url http://drupal.org/project/nodereference_url 31

Corresponding node relationships http://drupal.org/project/cnr 32

Why using CCK? You can fulfill the needs of your clients! ● Quality ● Fast ● Cheap 33

Views “This tool is essentially a smart query builder“ merlinofchaos http://drupal.org/project/views 34

Views With views you can configure ● Pages ● Blocks ● Feeds Based on content types and additional fields 35

Views Page Example from http://eu.cocoate.com/ 36

Views Blocks 37

Views Feed 38

Views – exposed filters 39

The making of 40

Views Relationships Imagine a photo db in a newspaper ● Content-type photo ● Content-type article ● Node reference on photo-ID ● Result could be a list of articles with photos from the photo content-type 41

Views Parameter Imagine a used car dealer ● Cars on different places ● He wants to have blocks on his website with cars related to places ● Or blocks with places related to the car :-) ● Parameters are coming from the URL 42

Views – additional designs ● Build tagclouds with views tagadelic ● Or coverflow with views imageflow 43

Views – additional modules Like a swiss army knife :-) ● Views Bonus Pack ● Views Bulk Operations 44

Views – Theming ● Reduce markup ● Introduce your own css 45

Thank you for views & panels ● Earl Miles, Sony, many contributors 46

Panels http://drupal.org/project/panels ● Combining all Drupal objects on one page ● Nodes ● Blocks ● Views ● Add Content 47

Panels 48

Behind the scenes 49

I could talk hours about this ... But when I created this slide I realized ... ● It's more fun to try something in real time ● Unfortunately not in this talk ● But we can try here at the camp ● Any questions so far? 50

Thank you very much! have fun using CCK, VIEWS an PANELS Hagen Graf hagen.graf@gmail.com http://cocoate.com http://twitter.com/hagengraf 51

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