Drupal @ MediaCamp Athens

Content Management System

1200+ Contributed Modules

Content Management Framework

Community

Community © Ana Calvo

Doubles in size each release source: http://acko.net/blog/drupal-org-explosion-and-trends source: http://buytaert.net/drupal-site-statistics

Statistics
840+ code contributors
160+ local user groups
430+ attendees at Drupalcon
200,000+ users on drupal.org
3 million+ lines of code (core+contrib)‏
52 SoC mentors for 20 students
100,000+ downloads/month

Who uses Drupal?

http://ubuntu.com /

http://greenpeace.co.uk /

http://theonion.com /

http://twit.tv /

http://musicbox.sonybmg.com /

http://flex.org/showcase

http://help.yahoo.com /

Why do they use it?

Free Software

Features

Control

Extensibility

Maturity

Security

IBM says... source: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-osource1/

How does Drupal work ?

Architecture

Source: Dries Buytaert

Hook system

I’m displaying a list of permissions . Any modules have something to add?

$permissions = module_invoke_all(‘ perm ’);

Blog Contact $permissions = module_invoke_all(‘ perm ’); function blog_perm () { return array(‘ edit own blog ’); } function contact_perm () { return array(‘ access contact form ’); }

Blog Contact $permissions = module_invoke_all(‘ perm ’); function blog_perm () { return array(‘ edit own blog ’); } function contact_perm () { return array(‘ access contact form ’); } $permissions = array(‘ edit own blog ’, ‘ access contact form ’, ...);

Node (content) system

node title body author created date ...

node title body author created date ... article copyright poll choices results

node title body author created date ... article copyright poll choices results file attachments comments comments upload.module comment.module

Killer modules

CCK
Add new fields to node types

Views
Creating lists of nodes (query builder)‏

What does the future hold?

Drupal 6

Drupal 7 5

More information
http://drupal.org/handbook
http://api.drupal.org
http://www.drupalbook.com
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/osource/
http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites
http://mydrupal.gr

Nektarios Sylligardakis [email_address] Presentation based on Angie Byron ´s Presentation called “ Implementing Drupal ”

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Drupal @ MediaCamp Athens

by Nektarios Sylligardakis on Mar 07, 2008

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