This document provides an overview of Drupal, including: - Drupal is an open source content management framework written in PHP that allows users to manage content through control panels. - It began in 2001 as a college student's bulletin board and has grown significantly through contributions to its open source community. - Drupal's code is seen as cleaner and better supported than alternatives, and it can do everything WordPress does plus more advanced features. - The Drupal community participates through its website, groups, forums, conferences and local meetups to support the system.

2. Overview
 What is Drupal
 A brief history
 Why Drupal
 Drupal Community
 The Stack
 Drupal Core
 Drupal Contrib
 Drupal Vocabulary

3. What is Drupal
•Content Management System (CMS)
• Framework - Content Management
Framework CMF
• Open Source - Under GPL General Public
License
• Web Application Framework - Written in
PHP
• A way for developers and non-developers alike
to manage content. Uses control panels rather
than straight code.

4. A brief history
• Created by Dries Buytart
Developer from Antwerp, Belgium
• Began as a bulletin board for a
College student and his friends
• Open sourced in 2001
• Driven by an ever-growing
community ever since!

5. Why Drupal
•Best PHP Open Source CMS from Packt
Publishing
•Best Overall Open Source CMS Award for Second
Year in a Row
•It does everything Wordpress does, and a lot more
•Its code is cleaner and better supported than
Joomla!’s
•Is one of hundreds of CMS, but is continually
growing.

6. Drupal Community
•Drupal.org
•Groups.Drupal.org
•Drupal.org/forum
•Conferences – DrupalCon
• Unconferences - DrupalCamps
•Meetups, etc.

7. Drupal Community
•Drupal IRC!
• irc.freenode.net
•#drupal-support
•#drupal
•#drupal-themes

8. The Stack
•Apache (lighttpd, IIS)
•MySQL (PostgresSQL, SQL
Server, Oracle)
•PHP
•PHPMyAdmin for adminisering your
SQL Database
•Linux (BSD, Mac
OS, Windows, Solaris)

9. The Stack

10. Drupal Core
•Base package which comes with a
set of modules (some
optional, others required)
•Provides basic set of common
features and a rich API

11. Drupal Core

12. Drupal Vocabulary
•Node/Content
•Content Type
•Taxnomy/Vocabulary
•Menu
•Region
•Block
•Page

13. Drupal Vocabulary
•Role
•Permission
•Theme
•Module

14. Drupal Vocabulary
•CCK
•Field
•Views

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