Drupal overview-training

What is Drupal?

 Content Management System (CMS)
 Framework – Content Management Framework
(CMF)
 Open Source
 Web Application Framework – Written in PHP
 A way for developers and non-developers alike to
manage content. Uses control panels rather than
straight code.

A Brief History

 Created as a bulletin board for a College
student and his friends
 Created by Dries Buytaert from Antwerp,
Belgium
 Open Sourced in 2001
 Derived from “Druppel”, the Dutch word for
“Drop” which also means village.

Drupal Community

 Now a large community of developers and
designers all work on Drupal and talk to each
other
 Conferences – DrupalCon
 Un-conferences – DrupalCamps
 Meetups, etc...

Planning your site

 Prepare the concept of your website:
 Whats the main idea? Figure out what kind of
content you want to serve. **CONTENT IS KING**
 Create a basic sitemap and features list
 Go shopping for:
 Modules
 Themes

Drupal builds your pages
Heres your data

I want
www.columbuslibrary.org

Ok, I have that Give me data
So I can build
The page

<HTML> Are there any
Web visitor special things I
need to do?

Here's your page, bye

Drupal from 1,000 feet

Presentation
Designer View themes

Logic
Developer Controller modules

Data
Administrator Model configuration

How Drupal Works

 Technology Stack
 Architecture
 System
 Content
 Users & Roles
 Modules
 Presentation

Platform Agnostic

 Allows for modularity and extensibility
 You can install:
 Apache / IIS / Unix / Linux / BSD / Solaris /
Windows / Mac OS X
 Database Independence (although MySQL
preferred)

System

 Modules
 File Layout

Drupal Vocabulary

 Node (Content)
 Content Type
 Taxonomy/Vocabulary (Categorization)
 Menu (Navigations/lists)
 Region
 Block
 Page

Drupal Vocabulary
 Role
 Permission
 Theme
 Module

 Views

Content

 Nodes & Comments
 Content Types (Node Types)
 Taxonomy

What is a node?
nodes are single instances of actual content
within the site. They can be pages, events,
forum postings, and more.
 Mental model – think blog entry or a page

 All content (node) types have these fields:

 Title
 Authored by

 Date created

• Date last updated

Taxonomy

 Classify nodes
 One or more vocabularies
 Each on can be controlled or free-text
 Displayed when nodes are displayed

Taxonomy
 Hierarchical Relationships
(Controlled)
Jedi Sith

Knight Master Appren Lord
tice

Laotah Anakin Mace Obi
Skywal Windu Wan
ker Kenobi

Yoda

Taxonomy
 Multiple Hierarchical
Relationship (Free tagging)

Jedi Sith

Yoda Mace Obi Anakin Count Darth Darth Darth
Windu Wan Skywal Dooku Maul Sidious Plaguei
Kenobi ker s

Users and Roles

 Not everyone is allowed to do everything
 One built in user (admin) aka “user1”
 Two built-in roles
 Anonymous User (not logged in)
 Authenticated User (logged in)
 Users may have multiple roles assigned to
them by an administrator
 Highest role wins

Drupal Contrib

 All project on drupal.org that are not “Core”
 Modules
 Themes
 Projects live at http://drupal.org/project/foo

Presentation
 Themes
 Defines all things visual
 Define regions to hold blocks
 Defines where blocks and content area are placed
 Styling defined (templates)
 Menus
 Blocks
 CSS / HTML / Javascript / JQuery

Regions, Blocks & Nodes

- Node -

- Node -

Blocks

 Can contain any HTML
 Menus and links
 Images
 Text
 Some pre-built
 Login block
 Navigation Menu
 Can create your own

Views

 Contributed (contrib) module
 No coding required
 Create your own lists of unique content
 Mental model – think query builder
 Creates “display’s” of data
 Block
 Page (webpage)
 Feed (RSS)
 Attachment

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