productivity without limits cck, views & panels
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Productivity without limits CCK, VIEWS & PANELS
First edition
Hagen Graf
http://cocoate.com
http://twitter.com/hagengraf
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The target group of this talk ...has a rough idea of ● why using databases (good start)
● the idea of lego bricks (optional but helpful)
● how to find hints on drupal.org (important)● HTML, CSS, Firefox, Firebug, FTP, Editor (important)
● PHP, GIMP, Photoshop (optional)
● being creative (not always bad)
● writing an invoice (necessary to survive :-) )
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I assume this is not like you :-)
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/awarnach/3483532628/
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Better?
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michale/105825096/
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The client often wants to havesomething very complicated
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/reinante/3746991396
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Client's focus 1Quality
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/elaws/4039318594/
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Client's focus 2
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/30046478@N08/3562725745/
Fast completion
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Client's focus 3
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/35188692@N00/143210068/
Cheap
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Your reply in the past
You can only have two of them!• cheap & fast completion → (NO quality)• cheap & quality → (NOT fast)• fast completion & quality → (oh la la -
NOT cheap :-) )
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One possible solution
developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing, developing
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Problems• Module updates• Core hacking• Scalability• Costs• Communication• Documentation• Finding developers
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Another possible solution
● Use the drupal “lego bricks“, for exampleCCK, VIEWS & PANELS
● Learn to find the right modules● Use your developer know-how to contribute to
the drupal project and make the bricks better
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Hint for hardcore web agencies
it is possible to earn money... by honest consulting … by using the pre-built brickseverything is more transparent to your clients and of course for you too :-)
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Blogpost Dries - May 3, 2006 - 17:40
“We want users, not developers, to be able to create custom content types from within
Drupal's administration interface.“
“The current code name for this project is the "content construction kit" (CCK). The project's goal is to allow users to create custom content
types in Drupal through the web.“
http://buytaert.net/custom-content-types
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Drupal 6 core (2009)
by using a browser - you can● create new content types● assign access rights to different roles (create,
edit, delete) ● assign taxonomy vocabularies to your new
content type● change the design by editing node-....tpl.php
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Have you ever read README.txt?
Content Construction Kit
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NOTE: Install the advanced_help module (http://drupal.org/project/advanced_help)
to access more help (writing still in progress...)
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Why CCK?
It has a ● text.module● number.module● userreference.module● nodereference.module
for creating additional fields in content-types
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Why CCK?
It has an ● optionswidget.module● fieldgroup.module
for creating additional radio & checkboxes and group fields together in collapsible fieldsets
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Why CCK?
It has a ● content_permissions.module
for assigning field based access rights to roles
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Thank you for CCKMaintainers
The Content Construction Kit was originally developed by:
● John Van Dyk
● Jonathan Chaffer
Current maintainers:
● Karen Stevenson
● Yves Chedemois
And many other contributors
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A few useful modules for my work
● Date● FileField● ImageField● MP3 Player
● Embedded Media Field● Node Relationships● Corresponding node
references● Node Reference URL
Widget
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Date● A date field
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File field● Upload a file
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ImagefieldUse it for images
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Gallery Widget for ImageFieldhttp://drupal.org/project/galleria
Example http://bloghouse.org/de/galerie-im-blogeintrag
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Mp3 player widget for FileField
Example http://www.evangelisch.de/maerchen/der-mit-dem-frosch-knutscht
http://drupal.org/project/mp3player
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Embedded field
Video: Blip.TV, Brightcove, Daily Motion, Google, Guba, JumpCut, imeem, Lastfm, LiveVideo, MetaCafe, MySpace, Revver, SevenLoad, Spike.TV, Tudou, Veoh, Vimeo, YouTube, Local videos (when already uploaded in the files directory)
Image: Flickr, ImageShack, PhotoBucket, Picasa
Audio: Odeo, Podcast Alley, podOmatic
http://drupal.org/project/emfield
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Embedded field
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Node Relationships
See also http://cocoate.com/node/463
http://drupal.org/project/noderelationships
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Node Relationships
See also http://cocoate.com/node/463
Node references via Popup – so cool :-)
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Node references urlhttp://drupal.org/project/nodereference_url
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Corresponding node relationshipshttp://drupal.org/project/cnr
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Why using CCK?
You can fulfill the needs of your clients!● Quality● Fast● Cheap
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Views
“This tool is essentially a smart query builder“ merlinofchaos
http://drupal.org/project/views
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Views
With views you can configure ● Pages● Blocks● Feeds
Based on content types and additional fields
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Views Page
Example from http://eu.cocoate.com/
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Views Blocks
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Views Feed
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Views – exposed filters
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The making of
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Views Relationships
Imagine a photo db in a newspaper● Content-type photo● Content-type article● Node reference on photo-ID● Result could be a list of articles with photos
from the photo content-type
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Views Parameter
Imagine a used car dealer● Cars on different places● He wants to have blocks on his website with
cars related to places● Or blocks with places related to the car :-)● Parameters are coming from the URL
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Views – additional designs● Build tagclouds with views tagadelic● Or coverflow with views imageflow
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Views – additional modules
Like a swiss army knife :-)● Views Bonus Pack● Views Bulk Operations
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Views – Theming● Reduce markup● Introduce your own css
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Thank you for views & panels● Earl Miles, Sony, many contributors
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Panels
● Combining all Drupal objects on one page● Nodes● Blocks● Views● Add Content
http://drupal.org/project/panels
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Panels
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Behind the scenes
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I could talk hours about this ...
But when I created this slide I realized ...● It's more fun to try something in real time● Unfortunately not in this talk● But we can try here at the camp ● Any questions so far?
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Thank you very much!
have fun using CCK, VIEWS an PANELS
Hagen Graf
http://cocoate.com
http://twitter.com/hagengraf