Drupal for Programmers

Presentation Title w w w . u n i m i t y . c o m DEC 2010 Drupal as a Content Management Framework Unimity Solutions. 3, 5th Floor, "Kasi Arcade" 116, Thyagaraya Road, T.Nagar, Chennai 600017 India, Phone: (91- 44) 43923800 www.unimity.com

Presentation Path
What does Drupal mean to a programmer?
History of Drupal
Drupal‘s Architecture
Highlights of Drupal - LIVE DEMO
Key Drupal Modules
Drupal Modules For Programmers
Drupal 7
The Next Frontier – Web 3.0
Useful Links

History of Drupal
Dries Buytaert was the founder of Drupal.
He started a small news site with a built-in web board, allowing a group of friends to share content. He called it drop.org. Drop was a typo for the dutch word drop that meant village
In January 2001, Dries released the free software Drupal, that means Drop in dutch! Over 650,000 users

What does Drupal mean to a programmer?
Access to a frame work to build on
Faster reach to customer
A whole bundle of Contributed modules
Coding standards
Community and Support

Drupal’s Architecture
Content Publishing is it’s Key feature
At the core is Data/ Assets – Multiple data formats and media are supported
Modules provide various functionalities
Collaborate
Interact
Share
Organizing data to cater to different contexts
Blocks and menus are output / navigation elements – allows for personalization of representing information
User Permissions – roles based access to information and functions
Template – provides for various layout options – allows for presentation and styles

Highlights of Drupal
Modular and extensible
Quality coding
Standards-based
Low resource demands
Open source
Ease of use
Collaboration

Key Drupal Modules
CCK
Views
Taxonomy
Organic Group
Rating
Commenting
Blogs
Video
Image
File field
Quiz
Simple News

Drupal Module For Programmers
Devel module
Coder Module

Drupal 7
USABILITY
Better media handling
Custom content types in core
WYSIWYG Editor
Better Performance
Better tools to structure/organize content
Basic Views like module

The next frontier – Web 3.0
The advent of semantic web
Context based information
User interface for content enrichment
Provide for personalized publishing and interaction
In addition to all the functionalities and capabilities of Web 2.0

Useful Links
Drupal.org Handbook Pages: http:// drupal.org /handbooks
Lullabot: http ://www.lullabot.com
Drupal dojo: http:// drupaldojo.com /

Thank You!

Drupal for Programmers

by Rajaram Shyamala on Feb 04, 2011

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