The document provides an overview of Drupal, a widely-used content management system noted for its extensive contrib modules and active community. It discusses its architecture, features, and the reasons various organizations utilize Drupal, highlighting its benefits such as cost-effectiveness, control, and security. Future developments in Drupal, including the anticipated release of version 7, are also mentioned.

1. Building University Websites with
the Drupal Content Management
System
Mark W. Jarrell
Web Services Specialist
Office of Information Technology
Austin Peay State University
jarrellm@apsu.edu
April 19th, 2010

2. What is Drupal?

3. Content Management
System

5. 5000+ Contributed
Modules

6. Content Management
Framework

8. Community
© Chrys Rynearson

9. Doubles in Size Each
Release

10. Statistics
• 1000+ code contributors
• 300+ local user groups
• 2500+ attendees at Drupalcon SF 2010
• 750,000+ users on drupal.org
• 3 million+ lines of code (core+contrib)
• 250,000+ downloads/month
Sources: http://groups.drupal.org, http://twitter.com/DrupalCon, http://drupal.org/user, http://www.webchick.net/
presentations/implementing-drupal-google, http://cms.phpmagazine.net/2009/07/
acquia_secures_8_million_and_b.html

11. Who uses Drupal?

12. http://www.linuxfoundation.org/

13. http://java.net/

14. http://www.hrw.org/

15. http://www.gouvernement.fr/

16. http://www.whitehouse.gov/

17. http://www.grammy.com/

18. http://www.swtor.com/

19. http://myplay.com/

20. http://www.beyonceonline.com

21. http://blog.thefray.net/

22. http://www.britney.com/

23. http://shc.stanford.edu/

24. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/

25. http://media.mit.edu/

26. https://
medschool.vanderbilt.edu/

27. http://www.cci.utk.edu/

28. Why do they use it?

29. Free Software
$

30. Features

31. Control

32. Extensibility

33. Maturity

34. Security

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

36. How does Drupal work?

37. Architecture

39. Source: Dries Buytaert

40. Hook System

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

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

43. Node (content) System

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

45. Great contributed modules

46. CCK
Add new fields to content types

49. Views
Creating lists of nodes (query builder)

53. Organic Groups
Private or public sub-sites

54. http://groups.drupal.org/
nashville-tennessee

55. http://groups.drupal.org/
nashville-tennessee

56. Webform
Gather information from your students
faculty and staff

61. What does the future hold?

62. Drupal 6
Released 1st quarter 2008
Very stable
Includes all features discussed today

63. Drupal 7
Releasing Summer 2010?
Still in testing (alpha)
New Features:
Usability improvements
Image handling and field handling (CCK) included in
core
Focus on PHP 5 (no support for PHP 4)

64. Let’s see Drupal in action!

65. More Information
http://drupal.org/handbook
http://api.drupal.org
http://groups.drupal.org
http://usingdrupal.com
http://drupalbook.com
http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites

66. Questions?
Building University Websites with the Drupal
Content Management System
Mark W. Jarrell
Web Services Specialist
Office of Information Technology
Austin Peay State University
jarrellm@apsu.edu
April 19th, 2010