WHAT IS DRUPAL?

WHAT IS DRUPAL?

by Peter K. Johnson - http://WebExplorations.com

Originally presented at Minnebar - April 2012

• What you need• The 5-minute Install• Theming• Nodes & CCK• Views• Modules• Untouchable Core• Taxonomy • Resources

photo by QuinnDombrowski - flickr.comIntro video by Matt Terry - Vimeo

Using Drupal Without Knowing PHP

WHAT IS DRUPAL? WHAT IS DRUPAL?PHP Framework with customizable modules

and themes.

Site Administrators build the house and paint

the walls.

Content Editors hang pictures on the wall and

put fresh flower arrangements on the table.

Core - Themes - Modules - ContentContent is stored in a database

WHO USES DRUPAL? WHO USES DRUPAL?Stanford University

The Economist

Amnesty International

NASA

MIT Media Lab

WhiteHouse.gov

16,000+ active developers - worldwide (March 2012)

WHAT YOU NEED WHAT YOU NEED

•PHP 5 (with graphic library for font rendering)

•MySQL

•PHPmyAdmin (Use MAMP or WAMP for these three.)

•Drush - Drupal command line utility

•A working knowledge of HTML & CSS

and Drupal http://drupal.org

photo by pranav - flickr.com

The 5-minute Install The 5-minute Install

Download http://drupal.org - Unzip

Create Database - myNewSiteName

Duplicate sites/default.settings.php

Rename to settings.php - Set permissions

everyone read/write

Create folder: sites/default/files - Set permissionseveryone read/write

View site: http://localhost/myNewSiteName

Done!

photo by GammaMan - flickr.com

Video Demonstration

THEMINGTHEMING

Making a SubTheme DemonInstall a Theme using Drush

Nodes & CCKNodes & CCKphoto by GreyLight - flickr.com

Every content item added is a node.Every content item added is a node.

Story NodeStory NodemyContentType

NodemyContentType

Node

Article NodeArticle Node

Blog NodeBlog Node

Video Demo of CCK

VIEWSphoto by Girlfierce Photography - flickr.com

Building forms and viewing the Building forms and viewing the data.data.

Video Demo of Views

MODULESMODULESphoto by foxKiyo - flickr.com

The building blocksThe building blocks Behind-The-Curtain Demonstration

Drush Demonstration

THE untouchable CORE THE untouchable CORE

•Store your code inside the mySite/sites folder.

•Don't hack core - copy and override in mySite/sites

instead.

•Updates will not overwrite the code in mySite/sites

•Have a backup system in place!

photo by Mrank - flickr.com

TAXONOMY TAXONOMY

photo by juhansonin - flickr.com

Putting things into categories

•In Taxonomy - Set up a vocabulary - type of books

•Set up terms for the vocabulary:

Drupal -- PHP -- CSS -- Science Fiction

•In CCK - Add new field to the content type

•As New Content is added:

Content Editor will select the appropriate taxonomy

term from a checkbox or radio button.

Video Demonstration

RESOURCES RESOURCES

•Drupal.org

•Drupal Groupshttp://groups.drupal.org/twin-cities

•Lullabothttp://Lullabot.com

•Lynda.comhttp://lynda.com

•BuildAModule.comhttp://BuildAModule.com

•Drupal Videoshttp://drupal.org/videocasts

•Mustard Seed Mediahttp://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast

•Discussion Group on LinkedIn

•DrupalCon Sessions• Denver 2012

http://denver2012.drupal.org/

• Chicago 2011 http://chicago2011.drupal.org/http://archive.org/search.php?query=drupalcon%20chicago

• San Fransisco 2010http://drupal.org/node/780000

Special thanks to the photographers at Flickr.comwho gave permission to use their photos in this presentation.

Revised: April 8, 2012