Drupal

DrupalIsriya Paireepairit

markpeak at gmail dot com

Thailand Open Source Festival #7Bangkok Convention Center

2 August 2007

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Open Source Evangelist

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What isDrupal

Drupal is

• full-featured CMS(Content Management System)

• many claim: CMF (Content Management Framework)

What can it do?

• Community Web Site

• Weblog

• Forums

• Social Network Site

• Wiki/Knowledge Base

• Business Web Application

System Requirement

• PHP

• Apache/IIS

• AppServ is recommended for Windows

• Lighttpd works as well

• MySQL/PostgreSQL

• Oracle support is coming

• IBM is working on DB2 support

History& Status

Drupal History

• Started in 1999 by Dries Buytaert (Belgium)

• Current version is 5.1

• Roadmap

• Drupal 6.0 - 2007

• Drupal 7.0 - 2008

• Open Source - GPLv2

Naming

druppel{Dutch} means

pronounces

drop

Drupal

{English}

{English}

Druplicon

Druplicon Cookie Source: http://buytaert.net/happy-sixth-birthday-drupal

Project Status

• 600+ developers for Core

• 800+ developers for Contributution

• 600+ modules

• 250+ themes

• 40 languages localization (including Thai)

source: knaddison.com/book/export/s5/475

Download Statistics

source: buytaert.net

Drupal Books

source: drupal.org/books

Events and Conferences

WhyChoose

Drupal?

Pros• Most basic CMS features are included

• Highly Customizable

• Plenty of Modules

• Good Architecture and API

• Good Documentation

• Performance

• Good Community

Drupal vs Joomla

source: buytaert.net

Cons

• Learning Curve

• PHP knowledge needed

• few Themes

• Lack of Commercial Support (in Thailand)

• Community support available at Codenone.com

source: buytaert.net

Drupal Learning Curve

Features

• Blog, Forum included

• Searching built-in

• RSS support

• Multi-language

• Statistics, Tracking, Logging, Reporting

• Caching included

source: drupal.org/features

(Killer) Features

• Installer with Profiles

• Taxonomy/Category/Tag

• Friendly URLs (Optimized for SEO!!)

• Theme with Color-changable

source: drupal.org/features

Comparison Matrix

source: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-osource1/#N10245

CaseStudy

Note: All images in this section are from buytaert.net

MTV

Warner Bros.

FOX

Forbes

PlayStation

Ubuntu

Hillary Clinton

Green Peace

and...

Playboy Germany

InstallationDemo

Architecture

source: Drupal Booklet

Core (Optional)

ContributionModules

Core (Required)

Core (Requires)

• Block - box display

• Filter - input format

• Node - content

• System - admin, theming, ...

• User

• Watchdog - logging

Core (Optional)• Blog

• Comment

• Forum

• Menu

• Locale (translation)

• Path (URL alias)

• Poll

• Profile (User page)

• Search

• Statistics

• Taxonomy (Tag)

• Upload

Node

Comment

Taxonomy

User

Block Menu Theme

Content Type

Locale

Module

System

Role

Presentation

System

Content

User

Modules

Core

• Path

• Taxonomy

Contributions• Pathauto

• Tagadelic

• CCK

• Views

• Workflow

• Actions

• Schedule

ResourcesMore

Download

• Drupal.org

• Main Program

• Modules

• Themes

• Translations

Documentation

• Drupal.org

• Installation

• Manual

• Example Case

• Code Snippet

Support• No commercial-support in Thailand

• Drupal.org

• Forum

• Bug Report

• Drupal Groups

• Codenone.com (Drupal User Groups)

• Forum

Druplicon Cake Source: http://buytaert.net/happy-fifth-birthday-drupal