Getting comfortable with Drupal Mayank Kumar 10 Nov 2009 IIT Delhi
Getting comfortable with Drupal
Mayank Kumar
10 Nov 2009
IIT Delhi
What we Know
• What and why a CMS• How Drupal works• Drupal Installation• Creating a Static Site using drupal• Installing custom theme• Drupal Core modules – Contact, Search and
Upload• Installing custom modules (HW)
Blogging using Drupal
• Editing the Story Content type.• Create a blog post
– Need of a Web based editor -> FCKEditor– Need of automatic path setting. ->Pathauto, Token– Need a page containing all blog posts summary ->
Views
Configuring the Path - Pathauto
Creating a new view - blog
Adding recent Comment
Adding Achieve
Blogging features Covered
• Tagging• Category• Blog page showing latest post summary• RSS feeds• Blocks – Recent Comments• Blocks – Tag cloud• Blocks – Archive • Social Bookmarking
TaxonomyTaxonomy
ViewsViews
Find Out?Find Out?
Getting deeper into CCK
What’s next ???
• Multimedia – Audio, video, photo-gallery • Theming and CSS – Customizing the look and
feel• Social Networking– The organic group• Getting your hands dirty – PHP coding for
modules
Books to refer – General
Drupal Theming
Inside Drupal - PHP