This document provides an overview of a Drupal workshop presented by OS Solutions. The workshop covers Drupal fundamentals like installation, administration, modules, themes, content creation and management, Views, and additional resources. It is intended for beginner, intermediate and advanced Drupal users and aims to cover as much of the content management system as possible within a 2 hour time frame.

1. Drupal Workshop Presented by OS Solutions

2. About Us Company Roger Steven Casey Bryan

3. Intended Audience Beginner Intermediate Advanced

4. Overview To cover as much Drupal as we can in 2 hours to meet all audience levels

5. drupal.org Navigation GIT Groups

6. Terminology Modules Blocks Themes Taxonomy

7. Drupal Requirements Linux PHP MySQL

8. Installation Dir in Apache web dir Setup conf Hosts (local) MySQL settings.php / files

9. Admin Interface Default Admin Admin Menu

10. Drush PHP Drop-in Command Line Quick Commands

11. Enabling Modules Download, Extract, Enable New D7 Paste URL Drush dl, en (den on github) https://github.com/jacksinn/Moar-Drush-Commands

12. Creating Content Manual Devel Import

13. Creating New Content Types CCK CCK Extensions D7

14. CCK Fields Creating Ordering Displaying

15. Node Reference CCK Field Type AJAX Field (easy, node title -> nid) Relates nodes

16. Taxonomy Semantic Web Similar Content Use across node types

17. Displaying Content Block Output Views Displays TPL Files

18. Blocks Chunks of information Can drop in code

19. Views Query Generator Create pages, blocks, feeds Live query results

20. Views UI Main interface Configuration Displays

21. Views Displays Block Page Feed Attachment

22. Views Fields Items to output ‘select’ clause Ordering, relationships

23. Views Filters Main Filtering ‘where’ clause Can expose filters

24. Views Sort Sort query output ‘order by’ clause Multiple options

25. Views Arguments Like filters Limit output based on node information, relationships

26. Views Relationships Used to tie information / nodes together ‘join’ clause Use with fields and filters

27. Users User 1 User 0 Management

28. Roles Logically group users Share permissions User may have multiple roles

29. Permissions What users may and may not view or modify Setup by role Users with multiple roles get the most liberal (‘or’ logic)

30. Rules / Triggers Execute actions on event Generate emails Create new content Flagged content

31. Flags Allow users to mark nodes (like, report) Use with triggered rules By user or global

32. Other Common Modules Drupal relies on contrib modules to increase robustness Modules on drupal.org are GPLv2 Licensed

33. Context Logically display items based on conditions Bundle regional information to be used across many node types

34. Features Store logically grouped items in code Helps with versioning / multiple developers Can deploy to any site Drush feature-update (fu)

35. Nodequeue Order nodes Useful with sliders, promoting nodes, ad management Add to queue on node page (easy)

36. Pathauto Generate URLs for content based on information about the node or static May use tokens

37. Multisite Traditional drop in new sites in sites/ dir Aegir GUI management of site deployment

38. List of Modules http://drupal.org/project/modules Good ordering options

39. Caching CSS / JS Block Views Squid (external)

40. Production Deployment Turn off UI elements Caching Database direction Use features

41. Managing Deployments Core updates (backup!) Drush pm-update (up) Versioning Only pull from prod DB never push to

42. Module Development Structure Hooks API Submission Process

43. Theme Development Structure .info .tpl.php files template.php

44. Database Management Features Export DB Dump Drush

45. Contact OS Solutions http://ossolutions.org 888.275.4893 steven@ossolutions.org roger@ossolutions.org

46. Additional Resources drupal.org api.drupal.org