This document discusses Drupal, an open-source content management system. It covers why Drupal is open source, how it has a large worldwide user base and community. The document also outlines ways to contribute to Drupal, such as documentation, translations, development, and forums. It provides an example of how to solve a problem by developing a custom module for a job portal site.

1. Basic customisation and
Contributions in Drupal
- Purushotam Kumar Rai

2. Agenda
‣ Open Source
‣ Drupal
‣ Contribution to the community
‣ Personal Experience

3. Open Source
‣ Development Model - Universal
Access via Free License
‣ Of the People, By the people, For
the people
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4. Drupal - Open Source - Why?
‣ Usage World Wide
-> Back-end framework for at least
2.2% of all & 12% of top 1,00, 000 websites worldwide.
‣ Largest Open Source Community
-> Even bigger than Linux
‣ Moving Ahead in right direction
-> Why to waste time in reinventing the wheel… Lets invest our
efforts to be one level up?

5. “ Come for the code,
stay for the community

6. Tools aiding Open Source - Drupal
‣ GIT
‣ DRUSH
‣ Drupal Api Documentation

7. Ways to contribute:
Documentation
User Interface
TranslationDevelopment
Forum
Patches
Issues

8. Advantages
‣ Personal:
-> Real Time Problem Solving & Feedback
-> Become part of diverse Drupal Community
‣ Professional:
-> Strong Profile
-> Adherence to best practices
-> Large Development Sphere

10. Job Portal - Scenario
- Problem ?
To use single application form for all
the jobs, there should be identification
way for each submission. The first field
should be set to the job-id, user is
applying to by default.

12. Job Portal - Solution Approach
Searching for solution
-> core
-> contrib
-> contrib (with partial solution)
-> no solution ?
Answer
Custom Module Development

13. Job Portal - Implementation
‣ Module Development:
-> job_form.info file
-> job_form.module file

14. Implementing a hook - Job Portal
‣ Implementing hook_form_FORM_ID_alter().

16. Job Portal - Solved

17. Personal Experiences
‣ Recovery Password

18. Recovery Password
‣ Inspiration:
Password Reset Mail should contain New Password
‣ Experience:
First Module

19. Recovery Password

20. Thank You ! Questions?