Using Drupal
OSCON 2009
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hi
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James Walker Addison Berry
“walkah” “add1sun”
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“walkah” “add1sun”
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What is Drupal?
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Drupal is...
• Content Management
System
• Content Management
Framework
• Community
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/larimdame/
Lego for building websites
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Building a Drupal Site
• Install
• Basic configuration (permissions, etc)
• Content types
• Views
• Theme
• Profit
• (ok, maybe some tweaking)
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Thinking Drupal
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Installation
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Requirements
• Linux (any OS will do, really)
• Apache (recommended, while others can
work)
• MySQL (or Postgres)
• PHP (just PHP)
http://drupal.org/requirements
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Basic settings
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Site Information
• Site name
• Email
• Footer message, etc.
• Default front page
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Menus
• Provide Navigation
• Entries added by modules
• Administrators can override
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Blocks
• Contained in regions
• Theme can define any number of regions
• Additional content: lists of links, additional
info, etc
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Taxonomy
• Used for categorizing content
• Multiple vocabularies
• Supports flat lists, hierarchies, and free
tagging “folksonomies”
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Content Types
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Content Types
• Multiple content types - created by admins
• Different workflows
• Different structure - via CCK
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Speaker
• Name (title)
• Bio (body)
• Company (field_organization)
• Photo (field_speaker_photo)
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Session
• Title (title)
• Description (body)
• Room (field_room)
• Session Type (field_session_type)
• Date (field_date)
• Speakers (field_speakers)
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Views
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Views
• Query builder - with a GUI
• Generates listings of stuff
• Provides multiple displays
• Highly extensible
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Theme
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Theme
• Controls the look and feel
• CSS, JS, Images and PHP files (on disk)
• Can override how anything looks
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Demo
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