Drupal Content Management System
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Drupal is a popular open source content management system (CMS) built on PHP and MySQL. It has an active developer community and supports many features out of the box like taxonomy, image handling, and multilingual content. Drupal uses a modular architecture that allows it to be highly customizable and extensible via thousands of contributed modules. It is robust, scalable, and optimized for performance. Drupal runs on a LAMP stack and has a user permission system based on user roles. Content is organized into nodes that can be displayed and categorized in various ways using modules, themes, paths, and taxonomy terms.
Drupal Content Management System
- 1. Drupal Kaushal Kishore Sr. Software Engineer OSSCube Pvt. Ltd. kaushal@osscube.com www.osscube.com
- 2. What is Drupal ? ● Drupal is an open source CMS, based on PHP and MySQL ● It has an extremely active developer community, with lots of resources available ● It has become arguably the most popular open source CMS
- 3. Drupal Features ● Well-constructed ● Documented code ● Extensible ● Customizable Workflow ● Taxonomy (categorization) ● Multilingual Support ● Image Resizing ● Multi-site/Special Use
- 4. Drupal is Powerful and Robust ● Drupal is built to run using the latest technologies that it optimizes for speed (Caching) ● Thousands of modules allow for modular additions to the platform including: – Ecommerce – Multimedia – Comments – Dynamic User Groups – And many, many, many, more ● Highly scalable
- 5. Technology of Drupal Drupal runs on a “LAMP” platform: ● L = Linux operating system(but it can also run on Windows, Mac) ● A = Apache web server (but it can also run on other web servers; not so well on Microsoft IIS as on Apache) ● M = MySQL database (but it can also run on PostgreSQL, SQLite, and others) ● P = PHP scripting language (no choices there!)
- 6. Drupal Terminology Module ● Add-on code that adds functionality to Drupal ● Can be core (comes with Drupal), contributed (download and install separately), or custom (written specifically for your site) ● Examples: Forum, Blog, Web Form Theme ● Set of PHP files, CSS files, and images that defines the layout and styles for your site ● Can be core, contributed, or custom Path ● Part of the URL of your site that follows the base URL for your site. For example, in http://example.com/node/add, the path is “node/add” User ● Anyone who visits your site ● Non-logged-in visitors are known as anonymous ● Users with accounts are assigned to roles that you can define, such as Master Admin, Content Editor, Member ● Permissions are generally assigned by role
- 7. Drupal Terminology Content Item (called “Node” prior to Drupal 7) ● A piece of content on your site, which could be displayed on its own page or as part of another page (or both) ● Basic content items have a Title, Body, a unique ID number, and some meta- data (creation time, last updated, author, etc.) ● Content types can have additional custom fields besides Title and Body, such as location, event date, banner image, etc. Taxonomy ● Categories, tags, or other classifications that can be applied to content on your siteMenu ● List of links to pages on your site, generally used for navigation in headers, sidebars, footers Weight ● Number that defines the order of a list, such as of menu items. Larger numbers “sink” to the bottom of the list. Block ● Text, links, images, etc. that can be placed in a region of your site’s theme (header, sidebar, footer, etc.), and configured to display on one or more pages
- 8. Drupal Terminology Drupal Core ● The base installation of Drupal, includes some modules, themes and other add-ons Roles ● How users are grouped by permissions. Allows posting of content. Defaults are authenticated or anonymous.
- 9. Drupal Core Modules And Many More..............
- 12. Drupal’s Directory Structure Drupal’s core areas (DO NOT MODIFY!): ● includes ● misc ● modules ● profiles ● scripts ● Themes ● (files such as index.php, .htaccess, install.php, update.php) (you might need to modify .htaccess only) Contributed and custom modules, ● sites/all ● modules ● themes ● Libraries ● Themes, and libraries to be shared by all sites hosted here:
- 13. Drupal As a MVC Framework
- 14. Drupal Usage
- 15. Question?
- 16. Thank You For Your Time And Attention! For more information visit http://www.osscube.com Or drop an email to kaushal@osscube.com