Drupal an introduction
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The document presents an overview of Drupal, an open-source content management platform supported by a vast community, highlighting its flexibility, security, and extensive user base. It discusses who uses Drupal across various sectors, key features of different Drupal versions, and the significance of Drupal conferences for the community. Additionally, it notes the upcoming DrupalCon event in India in February 2016.
Drupal an introduction
- 1. Why Drupal? Presented by :- Name: Pradeep Kumar Singh Email: pksingh1987@gmail.com Title: Drupal Contributor
- 2. 2 Agenda • Introduction - What is Drupal? • Who using Drupal • Drupal Highlights • Drupal Data Flow • Drupal Version differences • Drupal Community meetups/Drupal-con
- 3. 3 Drupal Introduction Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world. Open source :- Drupal is a free software package that allows you to easily organize, manage and publish your content, with an endless variety of customization. Well-documented APIs Flexibility - Drupal provide thousands of module/ profile that can be used at any stage to extend the application functionality. Large User Community :- Drupal is open source software maintained and developed by a community of over 1,000,000 users and developers. Responsive & Approachable Developer Community Secure :- Drupal's codebase is very secure. A lot of care is taken to prevent opening potential exploits. On rare occasions, exploits are found. Usually, they are fixes on the same day, and a new version of Drupal with the exploit closed is made available for download
- 4. 4 Introduction – Who Use Drupal – News Publishing - The BMJ, The Economist, New Republic – Intranet/Corporate Websites - SpaceX, Lush, Danone, Tesla Motors, Peugeot – Education - Stanford Law, Harvard, Oxford, MIT Media Lab – Art, Music, Multimedia - The Beatles, MTV UK, The Weather Channel, NBC,BBC, Grammy.com – Government - Whitehouse.gov, London.gov.uk, Governement.fr, New Zealand Government, The Prince of Wales – Nonprofit/NGO - Oxfam, British Council EAL, Amnesty International – Transportation - Gatwick Obviously, NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority Drupal 7
- 5. 5 Highlights of Drupal.org Drupal 8 is in Beta 31,111 Modules 2,134 Themes 939 Distribution 38,828 Developers 2,104 Code commit in a week 4,079 Issue comments in a week Drupal
- 6. Drupal data flow If you want to go deeper with Drupal, you should understand how information flows between the system's layers. There are five main layers to consider: 6 Drupal
- 7. Drupal 6 & 7 & 8 Drupal 6 Drupal 7 Drupal 8 6.36 7.38 8.0 Beta 12 Procedural OOPS basic OOPs with Symfony 2 MySQL 4.1 (MyISAM) PostgreSQL 7.1 MySQL 5.0.15 (InnoDB) PostgreSQL 8.3 SQLite 3.3.7 MySQL 5.5.3/ MariaDB/ Percona PostgreSQL 8.3 SQLite 3.3.7 5.2.5 or higher 5.4 or higher 5.5 or higher 16 MB 32 MB 64 MB Section Current Version Coding structure Database PHP memory_limit (Drual code) CCK & View Contributed CCK (Core) view (Contributed) Core Default template engine N/A PHPTemplate Twig Password encryption MD5 HASH (SHA-512) HASH (SHA-512)
- 8. Drupal 6 & 7 & 8 Continue Drupal 7 - Hook API documentation included in Drupal core. Drupal 7 - Added test framework and tests. Drupal 8 outputs semantic HTML5 markup by default, compared to XHTML in Drupal 6 and 7. Drupal 8 drops support for IE 6, 7 and 8, enabling the use of jQuery 2.0 and other code that assumes modern HTML5/CSS3 browser support. Drupal 8 - Mobile in its DNA - Drupal 8 isn’t just mobile friendly: It’s mobile first. Drupal 8 - Effortless Authoring - In-place editing of content without having to use the full edit form Drupal 8 - More field power - New types include entity reference, link, date, e-mail, telephone, etc. Comments are now a field Many more You can refer links at :- Drupal 7 - https://www.drupal.org/about/new-in-drupal-7 Drupal 8 - https://www.drupal.org/drupal-8.0/features
- 9. Meetup & DrupalCon • DrupalCon is the name given to global conferences where thousands of Drupal developers, system engineers, designers, project managers, functional analysts, documentation specialists, media, and business people gather to participate in learning sessions, talks, code sprints, and social events. • DrupalCons are held two to three times a year in different parts of the world • First started in 2005 and continued every year. • First time Drupal Con is going to held in India in Feb 2016 at Mumbai. - DrupalCon Asia • For more details - https://events.drupal.org/asia2016/