Marco Lancellotti introduced Drupal during the workshop of Commit University

1. Drupal 7: more than a simple CMS
Marco Lancellotti
Tirana, 25/10/2017
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2. Technical Skills:
❏Drupal :)
❏PHP 5 / PHP 7
❏HTML5 + CSS3 (I’m VERY punctilious with specifications)
❏a little bit of AngularJS
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About me
Marco Lancellotti
PHP + Drupal Web developer at Commit (Milan HQ)
When I’m not at work… :
❏I study (programming... like all of us)
❏First Italian “Legend of Zelda” fan
❏Erasmus Student Network volunteer
❏I love football
❏Graduated in Spanish

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What is Drupal?
Easy answer: it’s an Open Source CMS
created by Dries Buytaert and Hans Snijder
● Born in a dorm in 2000 (Antwerp University, Anversa)
● Meant to share news and social life events.
● From a village to a drop!
● Drop by drop…
● … a huge community sprout!
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Drupal story

4. Drupal numbers
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Credits:
https://www.slideshare.net/Dries/state-of-drupal-keynote-drupalcon-vienna
https://www.slideshare.net/mediacurrent/business-benefits-of-drupal-8
100% FREE
(Open source community project)
1M+
active websites
(10%+ traffic than Wordpress)
15K+
free modules
(under active development)
7K+
developers
(800+ agency, 44% in Europe)

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Who uses Drupal?
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Credits:
http://www.topdrops.org/

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● Easy to install.
● Secure and Efficient.
● Extremely flexible.
● Customizable in every detail.
● Clean coded: modular structure keeps core safe.
● Documentation is clear and complete.
● Huge community support.
● There’s a free module for basically anything.
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PROS- better said, why I like Drupal ; -) CONS
Why Drupal?
● Not very intuitive.
● You must know which modules to use.
● Very steep learning curve - you must study hard.
● Needs constant (and manual) maintenance.

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Themes
Allow to manage the Look & Feel
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Modules
Allow to extend functionalities

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Drupal Ecosystem
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Content Types
Fields
Taxonomy
Users
&
Roles
Blocks
(and regions)
Views*
* best module ever

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10. The Hooks*
*is not a family of Peter Pan’s villains ;D
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Setup
Acquia dev desktop
Every free hosting now support Drupal
like CPanel or Installatron
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Development tips & tools
Advanced Tools
● Drush
● Composer
Must have modules
● Devel Module
● Theme Developer Module
● Views
● Rules
● Pathauto
● Token
● Date
● Webform
● IMCE
● jQuery Update
● Adminimal admin theme

12. The future (is now): Drupal 8
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Latest markup standards
New templating engine
4x faster processing
Built on a reliable framework First Object Oriented CMS
Exportable Configurations
Best modules in core
Drupal Console

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KEEP
CALM
AND
WAIT FOR
THE MODULES

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Conclusions
Drupal
A showcase, static website?
A forum?
A personal blog?
A documentation website?
An institutional website?
A management system with specific needs and a lot of REALLY COMPLEX relationships?
An e-commerce?
Any other kind of website you can think of?
Should you consider to use Drupal for…

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Thank you