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This document provides an overview of Drupal basics, including: - Installing Drupal and setting up the files and directories - Creating and managing content like pages, stories, and custom content types - Managing blocks, menus, and themes to customize the site layout and navigation - Installing new modules, blocks, and themes from Drupal.org to add functionality The goal is to explain the fundamental architecture and components of a Drupal site to allow someone to set up their first Drupal site and begin adding content.
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Drupal 6 - podstawy - www.openbit.pl
- 1. Drupal basics Part 1
- 2. Training plan ● Web Pages architecture ● About Drupal ● Drupal installation ● Installation of modules ● Translations ● Content management ● Menu management ● Blocks management ● Themes management page 2/78
- 3. ●Web page types(1) Web pages Static Dynamic (HTML, CSS) (PHP, ASP, JSP, Ruby, etc) page 3/78
- 4. ●Web page types(2) Web pages Static Dynamic (HTML, CSS) (PHP, ASP, JSP, Ruby, etc) page 4/78
- 5. ●PHP ●PHP is ageneral-purpose scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. ●PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. ●While PHP originally stood for "Personal Home Page", it is now said to stand for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", a recursive acronym. ●Last stable release: 5.3.7 (August 18, 2011;) ●More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP, http://php.net/ page 5/78
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- 7. ● PHP webpages architecture Page is requested PHP interpreter Database server Web Server Web Browser (MySQL) (Apache, IIS, nginx) PHP files Dynamic web page page 7/78
- 8. ● PHP codeinterpretation HTML content sent PHP file on server to the browser <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <!DOCTYPE html> <head> <html> <meta charset="utf <head> 8" /> <meta charset="utf <title>PHP Test</title> 8" /> </head> <title>PHP Test</title> <body> </head> <?php <body> $name = 'Joe'; Hi Joe echo 'Hi ' . $name; </body> ?> </html> </body> </html> page 8/78
- 9. ● PHP webpages architecture Page is requested PHP interpreter Database server Web Server Web Browser (MySQL) (Apache, IIS, nginx) PHP files Dynamic web page Drupal page 9/78
- 10. ●Drupal ●Drupal is afree and open source content management system (CMS) and content management framework (CMF) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. ● It is used as a back-end system for at least 1.5% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites including whitehouse.gov and data.gov.uk. ●It is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration. Source: Wikipedia page 10/78
- 11. Other open sourceCMS ● page 11/78
- 12. ● Google Trends page 12/78
- 13. ●Drupal installation (1) Requirements: ●Web server (Apache) ●Database (MySQL) - what is needed is the database name, user name and password ●Drupal core: http://drupal.org/project/drupal - unzip the files to a directory on the server. page 13/78
- 14. Drupal installation (2) ● Use only stable releases on production servers Older versions page 14/78
- 15. ● Drupal installation(3) Drupal installation page. page 15/78
- 16. ● Drupal installation(4) ●Create directory files in sites/default ●Copy sites/default/default.settings.php to sites/default/settings.php ●Change file settings.php and directory files permissions so that it is writable by the web server (Linux command: chmod 777 files settings.php) ●Click: try again page 16/78
- 17. ● Drupal installation(5) Database connection parameters. page 17/78
- 18. ● Drupal installation(5) Database host – change if the database server is on another computer. Change if database server use non standard port Change if you have another Drupal installation In this database. We do not recommend sharing a database between Multiple Drupal installations Database advanced options page 18/78
- 19. ● Drupal installation (6) Administrator name. We recommend using the name „admin” Site configuration page 19/78
- 20. ● Drupal installation (7) For security reasons should be enabled Site configuration page 20/78
- 21. ●Drupal installation (8) Drupalinstallation complete page 21/78
- 22. ● Drupal installation(9) Drupal after installation page 22/78
- 23. ●Drupal installation (10) Practice: ●Dothe installation again. Remove tables from the database (use PHPMyAdmin) and delete the files from server. page 23/78
- 24. ● Drupal filesand directories (1) ● Drupal directories structure page 24/78
- 25. ● Drupal filesand directories (2) ●includes ●misc ●modules – core modules ●profiles – installation profiles ●scripts ●sites – in this directory you can put additional modules and themes ● all ● modules ● contrib – modules downloaded from www.drupal.org ● custom_project – custom modules dedicated for this project ● custom_universal – custom universal modules ● developer – developer modules, don't needed on production server ● themes ●themes – core themes ●cron.php - file is used to run periodic tasks such as indexing data to search and calculation of statistics ●index.php – main file ●install.php – installation file ●update.php – run this file after update modules or Drupal core page 25/78
- 26. Administration page Blocks Content Menus Modules Users Site information page 26/78
- 27. Site information Name – displayedin page header These fields are displayed in different places, depending on used theme Footer messages: for example: contact information page 27/78
- 28. Modules page Package name Status(enabled or disabled) Module name Module version Module description Depedencies Page: admin/build/modules page 28/78
- 29. Installing a newmodule (1) ●Installing module „Administration menu” ●Go to http://drupal.org/project/admin_menu ●Download recommended version for Drupal 6.x ●Extract files into sites/all/modules/contrib ●Go to page admin/build/modules ●Enable module New module on module list page page 29/78
- 30. Installing a newmodule (2) Administration menu Confirmation message Module status page 30/78
- 31. Practice Download andinstall module „Module Filter” TIP: You can use the site www.drupalmodules.com to find the module page 31/78
- 32. Module page If you had problem with module try to search solutions on module page Find similar modules Try module without installation page 32/78
- 33. Content What is aNODE? ● ● A node is a piece of content. Drupal assigns each piece of content an ID number called a node ID (nid). ● Each node has a title and body. Administrator can view a list of nodes by title. ● Contents are divided into types (node types). Default node types: page and story page 33/78
- 34. Create first node(1) ●Go to page: node/add ●Create new „Story” node Title Split button – split content into two parts: Teaser and Body Body page 34/78
- 35. Create first node(2) Published: each node have status published or unpublished. You don't need to delete node if you don't want to publish it on website Promoted to front page Sticky Node publishing options page 35/78
- 36. Create first node(3) Node ID (nid) in URL Title Edit link Date and author Content (body) Comment link Node view page 36/78
- 37. Practice Create 5 Storynodes ● ● Test node 1 (published, promoted to front page, sticky) ● Test node 2 (published, promoted to front page, sticky) ● Test node 3 (published, promoted to front page) ● Test node 4 (published, promoted to front page) ● Test node 5 (published, promoted to front page) page 37/78
- 38. Default front page Stickynodes ●Display all nodes with attrubute: published on front page ●Sorting by: ● Sticky ● Publish date page 38/78
- 39. Content management page Filter options Actions Title Edit link Type Status Page: admin/content/node page 39/78
- 40. Page vs Story Story Page Page and Story default attributes page 40/78
- 41. New content type(1) Create new content type link Page: admin/content/types page 41/78
- 42. New content type(2) Displayed name Type: identificator in database Content type description Page: admin/content/types/add page 42/78
- 43. New content type(3) Title field label Body field label Page: admin/content/types/add page 43/78
- 44. New content type(4) Create new version on every edit – user can restore older version of node. Note: Users with the administer nodes permission will be able to override these options. Page: admin/content/types/add page 44/78
- 45. New content type(5) Comments disabled Page: admin/content/types/add page 45/78
- 46. New content type(6) New conent type - Car page 46/78
- 47. New content type(7) Labels Page: node/add/car page 47/78
- 48. Summary What youshould know after this stage? ●Installing ●Create new content ●Edit and delete content ●Create new content type page 48/78
- 49. Blocks (1) ●Block isinformation that can be inserted in a region (left or right column, header, footer, under content – number of regions depends on theme) ●Deafult blocks: ● Menu (navigation, primary links, secondary links) ● Users online page 49/78
- 50. Blocks (2) Block page 50/78
- 51. Blocks (3) Region: left sidebar Region: right sidebar Create custom block Blocks position settings Page: admin/build/block page 51/78
- 52. Create custom block(1) Block description. Used on page admin/build/block Block title Block content Page: admin/build/block/add page 52/78
- 53. Create custom block(2) Allow users to control block visibility Show block for specific roles Show block on specific pages Page: admin/build/block/add page 53/78
- 54. Create custom block(3) Region Configure link Delete link New block Page: admin/build/block page 54/78
- 55. Create custom block(4) Custom block in right sidebar page 55/78
- 56. Input formats (1) INPUT Text transformation OUTPUT page 56/78
- 57. Input formats (2) <span style=”color: red”><strong>Drupal</strong></span> Filtered HTML Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <strong>Drupal</strong> page 57/78
- 58. Input formats (3) Createnew format Default format – all roles may use this format Configure options Page: admin/settings/filters page 58/78
- 59. Input formats (4) Changeallowed HTML tags Page: admin/settings/filters/1/configure page 59/78
- 60. Filter modules ●Latex filter:http://drupal.org/project/latex_filter ●Video filter: http://drupal.org/project/video_filter ●BB Code: http://drupal.org/project/bbcode ●Smiles (emoticons): http://drupal.org/project/smileys ●PEAR Wiki Filter: http://drupal.org/project/pearwiki_filter More at http://drupalmodules.com/ page 60/78
- 61. Menus Create new menu Drupal default menus ● Page: admin/build/menu page 61/78
- 62. Add node tomenu (1) Menu settings ● Page: node/*/edit page 62/78
- 63. Add node tomenu (2) Link in menu Primary links page 63/78
- 64. Primary links management Add new item Edit menu description Change order – drag and drop Edit and delete links Save configuration after change order Page: admin/build/menu-customize/primary-links page 64/78
- 65. Summary What youshould know after this stage? ●Installing ●Content management ●Blocks management ●Menu management page 65/78
- 66. Practice – createthis site Title Pages in menu News on front page Blocks page 66/78
- 67. Themes All themes configuration Enabled theme Default theme Enabled theme configuration Page: admin/build/themes page 67/78
- 68. Themes configuration Global settings orselected theme settings Configuration options Page: admin/build/themes/settings page 68/78
- 69. Garland theme configuration Somethemes has special settings, like color scheme in Garland Page:admin/build/themes/settings/garland page 69/78
- 70. Installing new theme ●Goto http://drupal.org/project/corolla and download theme for Drupal 6.x ●Extract files into sites/all/themes ●Go to admin/build/themes and set theme Corolla as default New theme page 70/78
- 71. New theme -Corolla page 71/78
- 72. Corolla – blockssettings New region names – other Block settings for each than in Garland enabled theme page 72/78
- 73. Corolla – newblocks settings page 73/78
- 74. Practice ●Go to http://drupal.org/project/Themes ●Choseany theme and download it ●Install new theme ●Change some theme settings and blocks settings page 74/78
- 75. Administration theme ●Drupal allowto set different theme for administration pages ●Go to http://drupal.org/project/rootcandy, download and extract theme into sites/all/themes ●Go to admin/settings/admin and set administration theme to RootCandy (Dark) page 75/78
- 76. Administration themes ●Other administrationthemes: ● http://drupal.org/project/seven ● http://drupal.org/project/rubik ● http://drupal.org/project/polpo ● http://drupal.org/project/berylizer ● http://drupal.org/project/fruity ● http://drupal.org/project/nerdalistic ● http://drupal.org/project/strix ●Administration module (alternative to Administration menu): http://drupal.org/project/admin page 76/78
- 77. Summary What youshould know after this stage? ●Installing ●Content management ●Blocks management ●Menu management ●Theme management Now you can create your own web page :) page 77/78
- 78. Thank you foryour attention Contact: E-mail: grzegorz.bartman@openbit.pl Tel: +48 882 515 514 strona 78/78