What is Drupal? For Site Administrators

WHAT IS DRUPAL? Using Drupal Without Knowing PHP • What you need • The 5-minute Install by Peter K. Johnson - http://WebExplorations.com • Theming Originally presented at Minnebar - April 2012 • Nodes & CCK • Views • Modules • Untouchable Core • Taxonomyphoto by QuinnDombrowski - ﬂickr.comIntro video by Matt Terry - Vimeo • Resources

WHAT IS DRUPAL?PHP Framework with customizable modules and themes.Site Administrators build the house and paint the walls.Content Editors hang pictures on the wall and put freshﬂower arrangements on the table.Core - Themes - Modules - ContentContent is stored in a database

WHO USES DRUPAL? Stanford University The Economist Amnesty International NASA MIT Media Lab WhiteHouse.gov 16,000+ active developers - worldwide (March 2012)

WHAT YOU NEED •PHP 5 (with graphic library for font rendering) •MySQL •PHPmyAdmin (Use MAMP or WAMP for these three.) •Drush - Drupal command line utility •A working knowledge of HTML & CSS and Drupal http://drupal.orgphoto by pranav - ﬂickr.com

Video Demonstration The 5-minute Install 1. Download http://drupal.org - Unzip 2. Create Database - myNewSiteName 3. Duplicate sites/default.settings.php 4. Rename to settings.php - Set permissions everyone read/write 5. Create folder: sites/default/ﬁles - Set permissions everyone read/write 6. View site: http://localhost/myNewSiteName 7. Done!photo by GammaMan - ﬂickr.com

Install a Theme using Drush Making a SubTheme DemonTHEMING

Every content item added is a node. Video Demo of CCK NODES & CCKphoto by GreyLight - ﬂickr.com

Every content item added is a node. Video Demo of CCK Story Node NODES & CCKphoto by GreyLight - ﬂickr.com

Every content item added is a node. Video Demo of CCK Story Node Article Node NODES & CCKphoto by GreyLight - ﬂickr.com

Every content item added is a node. Video Demo of CCK Story Node Blog Node Article Node NODES & CCKphoto by GreyLight - ﬂickr.com

Every content item added is a node. Video Demo of CCK myContentType Story Node Node Blog Node Article Node NODES & CCKphoto by GreyLight - ﬂickr.com

Building forms and viewing the data. Video Demo of Views VIEWSphoto by Girlﬁerce Photography - ﬂickr.com

The building blocks Behind-The-Curtain Demonstration Drush Demonstration MODULESphoto by foxKiyo - ﬂickr.com

THE untouchable CORE•Store your code inside the mySite/sites folder.•Dont hack core - copy and override in mySite/sites instead.•Updates will not overwrite the code in mySite/sites•Have a backup system in place!photo by Mrank - ﬂickr.com

Video Demonstration TAXONOMY Putting things into categories • In Taxonomy - Set up a vocabulary - type of books • Set up terms for the vocabulary: Drupal -- PHP -- CSS -- Science Fiction • In CCK - Add new ﬁeld to the content type • As New Content is added: Content Editor will select the appropriate taxonomy term from a checkbox or radio button.photo by juhansonin - ﬂickr.com

RESOURCES• Drupal.org • Drupal Videos http://drupal.org/videocasts• Drupal Groups http://groups.drupal.org/twin-cities • Mustard Seed Media http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast• Lullabot • Discussion Group on LinkedIn http://Lullabot.com • DrupalCon Sessions• Lynda.com http://lynda.com • Denver 2012 http://denver2012.drupal.org/• BuildAModule.com • Chicago 2011 http://chicago2011.drupal.org/ http://BuildAModule.com http://archive.org/search.php?query=drupalcon%20chicago Special thanks to the photographers at Flickr.com • San Fransisco 2010 who gave permission to use their photos in this presentation. http://drupal.org/node/780000 Revised: April 8, 2012

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