Drupal
Isriya Paireepairit
markpeak at gmail dot com
Thailand Open Source Festival #7
Bangkok Convention Center
2 August 2007

me
Webmaster of
Open Source Evangelist
Technology Columnist
User

What is
Drupal

Drupal is
• full-featured CMS
(Content Management System)
• many claim: CMF
(Content Management Framework)

What can it do?
• Community Web Site
• Weblog
• Forums
• Social Network Site
• Wiki/Knowledge Base
• Business Web Application

System
Requirement
• PHP
• Apache/IIS
• AppServ is recommended for Windows
• Lighttpd works as well
• MySQL/PostgreSQL
• Oracle support is coming
• IBM is working on DB2 support

History
& Status

Drupal History
• Started in 1999 by Dries Buytaert (Belgium)
• Current version is 5.1
• Roadmap
• Drupal 6.0 - 2007
• Drupal 7.0 - 2008
• Open Source - GPLv2

Naming
{Dutch}
druppel drop
means
{English}
pronounces
Drupal
{English}

Druplicon

Druplicon Cookie Source: http://buytaert.net/happy-sixth-birthday-drupal

Project Status
• 600+ developers for Core
• 800+ developers for Contributution
• 600+ modules
• 250+ themes
• 40 languages localization (including Thai)
source: knaddison.com/book/export/s5/475

Download Statistics
source: buytaert.net

Drupal Books
source: drupal.org/books

Events and Conferences

Why
Choose
Drupal?

Pros
• Most basic CMS features are included
• Highly Customizable
• Plenty of Modules
• Good Architecture and API
• Good Documentation
• Performance
• Good Community

Drupal vs Joomla
source: buytaert.net

Cons
• Learning Curve
• PHP knowledge needed
• few Themes
• Lack of Commercial Support (in Thailand)
• Community support available at Codenone.com

Drupal Learning Curve
source: buytaert.net

Features
• Blog, Forum included
• Searching built-in
• RSS support
• Multi-language
• Statistics, Tracking, Logging, Reporting
• Caching included
source: drupal.org/features

(Killer) Features
• Installer with Profiles
• Taxonomy/Category/Tag
• Friendly URLs (Optimized for SEO!!)
• Theme with Color-changable
source: drupal.org/features

Comparison Matrix
source: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-osource1/#N10245

Case
Study
Note: All images in this section are from buytaert.net

MTV

Warner Bros.

FOX

Forbes

PlayStation

Ubuntu

Hillary Clinton

Green Peace

and...

Playboy Germany

Installation
Demo

Architecture

source: Drupal Booklet

Contribution
Modules
Core (Optional)
Core (Required)

Core (Requires)
• Block - box display
• Filter - input format
• Node - content
• System - admin, theming, ...
• User
• Watchdog - logging

Core (Optional)
• Blog • Poll
• Comment • Profile (User page)
• Forum • Search
• Menu • Statistics
• Locale (translation) • Taxonomy (Tag)
• Path (URL alias) • Upload

Block Menu Theme Presentation
Taxonomy
Node
Content
User Type
Comment
Role Content
User Module
System
Locale
System

Modules

Core
• Path
• Taxonomy

Contributions
• Pathauto
• Tagadelic
• CCK
• Views
• Workflow
• Actions
• Schedule

More
Resources

Download
• Drupal.org
• Main Program
• Modules
• Themes
• Translations

Documentation
• Drupal.org
• Installation
• Manual
• Example Case
• Code Snippet

Support
• No commercial-support in Thailand
• Drupal.org
• Forum
• Bug Report
• Drupal Groups
• Codenone.com (Drupal User Groups)
• Forum

Druplicon Cake Source: http://buytaert.net/happy-fifth-birthday-drupal