Using DrupalOSCON 2009

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hi

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James Walker

“walkah”

Addison Berry

“add1sun”

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“walkah” “add1sun”

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What is Drupal?

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Drupal is...

• Content Management System

• Content Management Framework

• Community

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Lego for building websites

http://www.flickr.com/photos/larimdame/

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Building a Drupal Site

• Install

• Basic configuration (permissions, etc)

• Content types

• Views

• Theme

• Profit

• (ok, maybe some tweaking)

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Thinking Drupal

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Installation

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Requirements

• Linux (any OS will do, really)

• Apache (recommended, while others can work)

• MySQL (or Postgres)

• PHP (just PHP)

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Basic settings

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Site Information

• Site name

• Email

• Footer message, etc.

• Default front page

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Menus

• Provide Navigation

• Entries added by modules

• Administrators can override

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Blocks

• Contained in regions

• Theme can define any number of regions

• Additional content: lists of links, additional info, etc

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Taxonomy

• Used for categorizing content

• Multiple vocabularies

• Supports flat lists, hierarchies, and free tagging “folksonomies”

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Content Types

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Content Types

• Multiple content types - created by admins

• Different workflows

• Different structure - via CCK

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Speaker

• Name (title)

• Bio (body)

• Company (field_organization)

• Photo (field_speaker_photo)

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Session

• Title (title)

• Description (body)

• Room (field_room)

• Session Type (field_session_type)

• Date (field_date)

• Speakers (field_speakers)

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Views

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Views

• Query builder - with a GUI

• Generates listings of stuff

• Provides multiple displays

• Highly extensible

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Theme

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Theme

• Controls the look and feel

• CSS, JS, Images and PHP files (on disk)

• Can override how anything looks

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Demo

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