Drupal Experience Sharing At Prime College

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Drupal CMS

Presented By:

Geshan Manandhar

[email protected]

http://geshan.com.np

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What is a Web CMS?

• A web content management system is a system that makes content adding, moderating, updating, deleting, archiving and retrieving easy.

• It allows non technical users to build and use a website with little or no training.

• It is a web application that manages various forms of content from text, images to video.

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What is Drupal?

• Drupal is a free and open source modular content management system (CMS) and a content management framework.

• It is written in PHP and runs on MYSQL or Postgre SQL databases.

• For developers, it provides a solid base to extend and implement custom content management solutions

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Drupal in simple terms

• A great free web application that helps you to build dynamic feature rich and maintainable websites in very less time.

• Add new features (modules), change look and feel (themes), administer users and user access levels… with no hassle.

• It can be a great opportunity for designer and developers alike to develop in Drupal.

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Why choose Drupal?

• Easy to install

• Easy to use, user friendly

• Easy to learn

• Amazingly feature rich (plug in modules)

• Free and open source (GNU/GPL License)

• Flexible, robust and modular

• Big community support

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Popularity of Drupal

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Popularity of Drupal…

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What can it be used for?

• Community websites

• Blogs/Weblogs

• Social Networking sites

• Forums

• Wiki/Knowledge base

• Business Web Application

• Intranet

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Who is using Drupal?

• Bands, Musicians and Celebrities – AvrilLavigne.com– JeniferLopez.com– Dead.net (Greatful Dead)

• Communities and Social Networks – Blogher.com– community.menshealth.de– Drupalsites.net

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Who is using Drupal?

• Companies and Business – http://officepranks.forbes.com/– http://www.mtv.co.uk/– http://www.warnerbrosrecords.com/

• Open Source, Software and Development – http://dev.aol.com/ – http://www.flock.com/– http://www.ubuntu.com/

• The List goes on… more sites at drupalsites.net

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Drupal Current Status

• Drupal 5.7 released on 30th January 2008.

• Drupal 6.0 released recently, 13th February 2008.

• 600 + Modules

• 250 + Themes

• Localized in 35 + Languages

• Drupal recently celebrated its 7th Birthday.(15th January 2008)

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Drupal Site(s) I’m Involved in

http://peoplesummit.org – My Internship Project

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Drupal Site(s) I’m Involved in

http://yipl.com.np

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Drupal Site(s) I’m Involved in

http://hamrolyrics.com

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Drupal Site(s) I’m Involved in

http://cira.org.np

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Drupal Site(s) I’m Involved in

http://namastektm.co.uk Other sites in the pipeline

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Basic Drupal Terminology

• Lets get back.– Node: a single puzzle piece that is placed

onto the site by one of your users, or even yourself. Almost everything is a node.

– Blog: online journal or log entry displayed in reverse chronological order.

– Comments: Comments are what allow people to add comments to any other node that has been created.

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More Drupal Related Terms

– Forum: Forums are sets of nodes and their comments. Posts and comments attached.

– Page:Pages are simple nodes, typically used for static content .

– Poll:A poll is where a multiple choice question is asked and users can answer.

– Story: Story pages are the generic page type that most content management systems have.

• Except node others can be also referred as content types.

• Content types can be added as per need.

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More Drupal Terms

– Block: A region or space that contains some data may be links, image etc. Mainly built by modules or may be custom made.

– Menu: A region that contains links to other content/nodes in Drupal. Like primary, secondary, navigation or any custom made.

– Weight : Defines the priority of display. – Module: A code block that activates a new

function in the Drupal Website.

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More Drupal Terms

– Theme: A package when installed and changed changes the overall look and feel of the Drupal website.

• Other usual terms related to web development also common in Drupal are Header, Footer, Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar, Content Area…

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A Typical Drupal Site

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Software needed to run Drupal

• A web server that can execute PHP. PHP 4.3.5 or higher required 5.x above recommended.

• A database server preferably MYSQL. MYSQL 4.1 required, 5.x recommended.

• A web browser.

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We Are using

• XAMPP 1.5.2 (X-For All, Apache, MYSQL, PHP and Perl)

• PHPMYADMIN – for MYSQL administration

• Firefox - Version 2 or above

• Zip tool/Tar Tool - Winzip or WinRar

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Lets get started

• Install XAMPP• Download and Install

Drupal.• Do some work in it, build

a decent website.• Menu and content

management.• User Management• Module Integration• Theme Integration• …