Productivity without limits CCK, VIEWS & PANELS

Productivity without limits CCK, VIEWS & PANELS First edition Drupalcamp Vienna 2009 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 :-) ) DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 2

I assume this is not like you :-) Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/awarnach/3483532628/ DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 3

Better? Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michale/105825096/ DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 4

The client often wants to have something very complicated Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/reinante/3746991396 DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 5

Client's focus 1 Quality Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/elaws/4039318594/ DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 6

Client's focus 2 Fast completion Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/30046478@N08/3562725745/ DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 7

Client's focus 3 Cheap Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/35188692@N00/143210068/ DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 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 :-) ) DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 9

One possible solution developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 10

Problems • Module updates • Core hacking • Scalability • Costs • Communication • Documentation • Finding developers DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 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 DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 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 :-) DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 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 DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 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 DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 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...) To install, place the entire CCK folder into your modules directory. Go to Administer -> Site building -> Modules and enable the Content module and one or more field type modules: DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 16

Why CCK? It has a • text.module • number.module • userreference.module • nodereference.module for creating additional fields in content-types DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 17

Why CCK? It has an • optionswidget.module • fieldgroup.module for creating additional radio & checkboxes and group fields together in collapsible fieldsets DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 18

Why CCK? It has a • content_permissions.module for assigning field based access rights to roles DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 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 DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 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 DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 21

Date • A date field DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 22

File field • Upload a file DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 23

Imagefield Use it for images DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 24

Gallery Widget for ImageField http://drupal.org/project/galleria Example http://bloghouse.org/de/galerie-im-blogeintrag DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 25

Mp3 player widget for FileField http://drupal.org/project/mp3player Example http://www.evangelisch.de/maerchen/der-mit-dem-frosch-knutscht DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 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, Podcastcocoate.com podOmatic DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 Alley, 27

Embedded field DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 28

Node Relationships http://drupal.org/project/noderelationships See also http://cocoate.com/node/463 DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 29

Node Relationships Node references via Popup – so cool :-) See also http://cocoate.com/node/463 DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 30

Node references url http://drupal.org/project/nodereference_url DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 31

Corresponding node relationships http://drupal.org/project/cnr DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 32

Why using CCK? You can fulfill the needs of your clients! • Quality • Fast • Cheap DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 33

Views “This tool is essentially a smart query builder“ merlinofchaos http://drupal.org/project/views DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 34

Views With views you can configure • Pages • Blocks • Feeds Based on content types and additional fields DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 35

Views Page Example from http://eu.cocoate.com/ DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 36

Views Block DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 37

Views Feed DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 38

Views – exposed filters DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 39

The making of DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 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 DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 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 DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 42

Views – additional designs • Build tagclouds with views tagadelic • Or coverflow with views imageflow DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 43

Views – additional modules Like a swiss army knife :-) • Views Bonus Pack • Views Bulk Operations DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 44

Views – Theming • Reduce markup • Introduce your own css DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 45

Thank you for views & panels • Earl Miles, Sony, many contributors DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 46

Panels http://drupal.org/project/panels • Combining all Drupal objects on one page • Nodes • Blocks • Views • Add Content DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 47

Panels DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 48

Behind the scenes DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 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? DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 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 DrupalCamp Vienna, Nov. 09 cocoate.com 51

Productivity without limits CCK, VIEWS & PANELS

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