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Drupal
- 2. What IS Drupal? Something between a CMS (content management system) and a CMF (content management framework)
- 3. Open Source Drupal is Open Source Free Transparent code Extensible EXTENSIBLE Don’t modify it Do expand on it
- 4. Structure of a Drupal Site PHP Code in the form of Modules Modules: Core: essential to Drupal Ex: search, menu, filter Contributed: add-ons / features Ex: WYSIWYG, CAPTCHA, webform Custom: hand-written modules Cancel_link, UBake
- 5. Data Almost all data is stored in the database as a “Node.” Create content types that expand on the node’s core functionality Examples: page, recipe, clinic, doctor
- 6. Display A “Theme” is a way we present data No different from a PowerPoint theme Allows us to present the same data, but with a different look and feel
- 7. Regions and Blocks Region: a section of a page where we can display data. Ex: header, footer, content bottom Block: a piece of content that gets placed in a block. Ex: newsletter signup, extra footer links
- 8. How Does it Work?? If there aren’t really folders and pages… how does any of it really work? .htaccess – redirects ALL traffic to your website back to the index.php Drupal uses the rest of the path, such as “/recipes/appleton/category/For-the-Home/” to determine which content to serve. Site.com/a/b/c/d is REALLY the same as: Site.com/index.php?q=/a/b/c/d
- 9. Acquia Acquia is a souped up version of Drupal Core Drupal Core Additional Themes Commonly Used Contributed Modules www.acquia.org Lems-Acquia is a souped up version of Acquia, with a bit more of everything.
- 10. CCK – Content Construction Kit Allows to expand Nodes into more advanced content types with varying attributes. Gives us fields for addresses, links, dates, checkboxes, and even references to other nodes
- 11. Pathauto Lets us generate URLs for our nodes based on “Tokens.” For example, we can put all our Newborn content at /newborns/[baby’s-name] while our doctors are at /staff/[doctor’s-name]
- 12. WYSIWYG Lets users create/edit pages with a more familiar WYSIWYG editor rather than using raw html *MANY* WYSIWYG editors to choose from
- 13. Taxonomy A method for classifying content Strict categories or free-formed tags Examples: Recipe categories, Baker’s Corner categories
- 14. Views Create customized lists and queries of our nodes from the database Examples: - list of recipes by category - list of medical providers that meet certain criteria