Drupal

Slide 1: Drupal Isriya Paireepairit markpeak at gmail dot com Thailand Open Source Festival #7 Bangkok Convention Center 2 August 2007

Slide 2: me Webmaster of Open Source Evangelist Technology Columnist User

Slide 3: What is Drupal

Slide 4: Drupal is • full-featured CMS (Content Management System) • many claim: CMF (Content Management Framework)

Slide 5: What can it do? • Community Web Site • Weblog • Forums • Social Network Site • Wiki/Knowledge Base • Business Web Application

Slide 6: 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

Slide 7: History & Status

Slide 8: 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

Slide 9: Naming {Dutch} druppel drop means {English} pronounces Drupal {English}

Slide 10: Druplicon

Slide 11: Druplicon Cookie Source: http://buytaert.net/happy-sixth-birthday-drupal

Slide 12: 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

Slide 13: Download Statistics source: buytaert.net

Slide 14: Drupal Books source: drupal.org/books

Slide 15: Events and Conferences

Slide 16: Why Choose Drupal?

Slide 17: Pros • Most basic CMS features are included • Highly Customizable • Plenty of Modules • Good Architecture and API • Good Documentation • Performance • Good Community

Slide 18: Drupal vs Joomla source: buytaert.net

Slide 19: Cons • Learning Curve • PHP knowledge needed • few Themes • Lack of Commercial Support (in Thailand) • Community support available at Codenone.com

Slide 20: Drupal Learning Curve source: buytaert.net

Slide 21: Features • Blog, Forum included • Searching built-in • RSS support • Multi-language • Statistics, Tracking, Logging, Reporting • Caching included source: drupal.org/features

Slide 22: (Killer) Features • Installer with Profiles • Taxonomy/Category/Tag • Friendly URLs (Optimized for SEO!!) • Theme with Color-changable source: drupal.org/features

Slide 23: Comparison Matrix source: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-osource1/#N10245

Slide 24: Case Study Note: All images in this section are from buytaert.net

Slide 25: MTV

Slide 26: Warner Bros.

Slide 27: FOX

Slide 28: Forbes

Slide 29: PlayStation

Slide 30: Ubuntu

Slide 31: Hillary Clinton

Slide 32: Green Peace

Slide 33: and...

Slide 34: Playboy Germany

Slide 35: Installation Demo

Slide 36: Architecture

Slide 37: source: Drupal Booklet

Slide 38: Contribution Modules Core (Optional) Core (Required)

Slide 39: Core (Requires) • Block - box display • Filter - input format • Node - content • System - admin, theming, ... • User • Watchdog - logging

Slide 40: Core (Optional) • Blog • Poll • Comment • Profile (User page) • Forum • Search • Menu • Statistics • Locale (translation) • Taxonomy (Tag) • Path (URL alias) • Upload

Slide 41: Block Menu Theme Presentation Taxonomy Node Content User Type Comment Role Content User Module System Locale System

Slide 42: Modules

Slide 43: Core • Path • Taxonomy

Slide 44: Contributions • Pathauto • Tagadelic • CCK • Views • Workflow • Actions • Schedule

Slide 45: More Resources

Slide 46: Download • Drupal.org • Main Program • Modules • Themes • Translations

Slide 47: Documentation • Drupal.org • Installation • Manual • Example Case • Code Snippet

Slide 48: Support • No commercial-support in Thailand • Drupal.org • Forum • Bug Report • Drupal Groups • Codenone.com (Drupal User Groups) • Forum

Slide 49: Druplicon Cake Source: http://buytaert.net/happy-fifth-birthday-drupal