1. Drupal in 1 Hour
What, wherefore, and how.
#WIMPDrupal
Joshua Simmons, Co-founder of WIMP and CEO of Bluebird Interactive, Inc.
Drupalista since 2008. Follow me @joshsimmons
2. Definitions: What is Drupal?
• Content management framework
• Open-source
• Non-profit
• 3rd most popular CMS
• Pronounced "droo-puhl" (it's Dutch)
• Berkeley is ground zero
• Built in PHP
• SQL-friendly
• Nginx or IIS? No problem.*
4. What is it good for?
• Communities
• Media organizations
• Advanced e-commerce
• Multi-site
• Applications
• Systems integration
When might it be overkill?
• Brochure websites
• Blogs
5. Key Concepts:
Entities, content types, and fields
• EntitiesUsers, nodes, taxonomy terms, products
• NodesPage, blog entry, event, page of a book or wiki
• Fields
o Core elemental fieldsText, textarea, dropdown, checkbox/radios, file
o Contributed fieldsNode, user, and taxonomy references; URLs; media;
locations; dates; and phone numbers
6. Key Concepts:
Themes
• Base themesZen, Omega, AdaptiveTheme, Zentropy
• Off the shelfCorolla, Sky, TouchPro, Danland,
Acquia Marina, Acquia Prosper
• Customizing themes
o admin UI is full of goodies
color palettes
responsive breakpoints Diagram of theme rendering process.
o themename.info
o html.tpl.php, page.tpl.php, node--typle.tpl.php, block--block--#.tpl.php
• Organized into regions
o blocks
7. Key Concepts:
Blocks, regions, and views
• Blocks
o Types
Packaged with modules
Generated by views, menus
Custom blocks by you
o Placement and Visibility
Select a region
Pages by URL matching
Select user role(s)
• Views moduleis a gift from the gods of basic page and the theme files
Diagram
Slices'n'dices entities every way it's composed of.
imaginable: blog, calendar, gallery,
map, shopping cart, and beyond.
8. Key Concepts:
Views, again.
• Not like MVC
• Pages, blocks, feeds
o Slideshows, calendars
o Lists, grids, and tables
o JSON?
• Overrides at every level
o Both GUI and PHP
o Fields, rows, containers, etc.
• Context sensitive
o Can accept arguments
10. Where do pages come from?
Entities like nodes,
users, and taxonomy
terms, mostly. They
have pages auto-
generated for them.
Views and panels
can create pages,
too.
11. Anatomy:
Codeless Blog w/ Gallery
• base theme & theme
• modulesViews, Blog, Views Slideshow,
Views Slideshow Galleria, Date, WYSIWYG,
Entity, File Entity, Print, Token, Media, XML
sitemap
• content types & fieldsBasic
Page, Blog Entry, Gallery Image
• viewsBlog Listing, Monthly Blog Archive,
Gallery?
13. Before Building a Site
• What content types and fields?
• How will the data get in? (Forms)
• How will the data get out? (Views)
• Who may create/view/delete data?
(Permissions)
• What additional functionality? (Modules)
• How can we make it pretty? (Theming)
Intro to Drupal 7 Architecture, pg 31
14. Key Concepts:
Distributions
Commerce Kickstart - e-commerce
Drupal Commons - community
OpenAtrium - intranet & team portal
Spark - Drupal 8 UX experiment in D7
COD - conferences
OpenAid - collaborative aid deployment tool
OpenOutreach - nonprofits & grassroots orgs
OpenDeals - Drupal, Groupon-style
OpenPublish - for newspapers & media
OpenPublic - for government
One Page CV - do I really need to explain?
Videola - IPTV platform (think: Hulu or Lynda)
15. It's Not All Rainbows & Unicorns
PRO CON
• each new version is rethought • familiar, yet different
• open-source • learning curve
• security • learning curve... every version
• multi-user • less out-of-the-box-y
• multi-site • power hungry
• internationalization • can easily pwn shared hosts
• persistent references • lots o' files -- encumbers source
• portable controlfrustrates front-end
• content first approach coders, developers that dislike
• command line admina favorite PHP, MVC practitioners,
of database designers, shared web hosting packages,
command line ninjas, security and minimalists
nuts, integration specialists,
and people who love Legos
16. Resources
• Sonoma County Drupal User Group (&
SF)Monthly on the Tuesday before WIMP at
6pmwww.meetup.com/socodrupal &
www.facebook.com/groups/socodrupal
• 2012 BADCamp in Berkeley, November 1-
4many DrupalCamps, DrupalCons, and Drupal User Groups available
• Drupal.orgonline wiki, code repository, groups, and IRC channels
• Lullabotwww.lullabot.com
• Case studieswww.drupal.org/case-studies
• Acquia and Drupal Gardens
Really need a convincing argument? Drupal has a wiki page for that:
17. Resources: Drupalistas in WIMP
• Bill Dornbush
• Dale Geist
• Debbie Smith
• Linda Philips Blue
• Scott Hildebrand
• Nick Topolos
• ... and yours truly ;-)
18. Drupal in 4 Hours
Dive into Drupal and build something!
This Friday at 2pm! Bring a laptop.
Check out my blog, Skepti.ca!
Joshua Simmons, Co-founder of WIMP and CEO of Bluebird Interactive.
Drupalista since 2008. Follow me @joshsimmons
19. Extra Resources
San Francisco Drupal Users Group
http://www.meetup.com/SFDUG-San-Francisco-Drupal-Users-group/
Theme Hook Reference (File Names)
http://drupal.org/node/1089656
Form API Reference
http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer!topics!forms_api_reference.html/7
Sampe Data Architecture (Content Types, Fields, and Taxonomies)
http://u.gob.lu/RWleqQ
Theme Rendering Process Diagram
http://john.albin.net/drupal/arrays-of-doom
Grok Drupal 7 Theming (Page Template File Diagram)
http://pingv.com/blog/grok-drupal-7-theming-update
Intro to Drupal 7 Architecture
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/it/Intro_to_Drupal_7_Architecture.pdf
BOOKS
PHP for Drupal Designers
Using Drupal
20. Extra Resources
How-To: Build a Slideshow with Views Slideshow (in this example, testimonials)
http://www.ostraining.com/blog/drupal/views-slideshow-in-drupal-7/
WSJ Article about NYSE's Use of Drupal
http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2012/05/28/nyse-relies-on-open-source-for-growth/
Drupal System Requirements
http://drupal.org/requirements
