Drupal in 30 Minutes
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Drupal is a free, open-source website development tool that facilitates quick website creation with PHP and powers around 1 in 50 websites worldwide. It offers extensive functionality through core and contributed modules, customizable themes, and a robust community for support. Users can implement various features, control content access, and utilize social publishing without licensing costs.
![Build Websites Quickly.
Assemble websites
with the browser UI,
or a command line > drush dl drupal --drupal-project-rename=example
> cd example
> drush site-install standard --db-url=mysql://[db_user]:
interface.
[db_pass]@localhost/[db_name] --site-name=Example
>
Out-of-the-box
distributions for
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![Flexible
Add functionality with
[10K+] plug-in modules.
Writing custom code
with versatile API.
Huge worldwide
development
community.
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Drupal in 30 Minutes
- 1. What Is Drupal Robert Carr rob@cognimatic.com @robertgcarr #drupalcampscot
- 2. 30 mins - Newbie to Pro! The pitch - 8 key points How to install + get started Drupal terminology Functionality = Modules Appearance = Themes Drupal Community
- 3. What is Drupal? A free, community-built website development tool used across the world. Mostly software written in PHP language. Currently powers about 1 in 50 websites.
- 4. Build Websites Quickly. Assemble websites with the browser UI, or a command line > drush dl drupal --drupal-project-rename=example > cd example > drush site-install standard --db-url=mysql://[db_user]: interface. [db_pass]@localhost/[db_name] --site-name=Example > Out-of-the-box distributions for complete solutions.
- 5. Flexible Add functionality with [10K+] plug-in modules. Writing custom code with versatile API. Huge worldwide development community. © Drupal Association 2011!
- 6. Customise the look. Hundreds of templates can be freely downloaded to customise the appearance. Use custom HTML and CSS for unique design.
- 7. Scalable and Deployable Production-ready out of the box. Can be scaled-up for some of the highest traffic sites in the world. Re-use standard codebase and database to deploy multiple sites.
- 8. Secure. Code written to high standards. Dedicated security team. Patches and advice easily available.
- 10. Social Publishing Platform Multiple users can publish content Tuneable access controls Open logins
- 11. Social Publishing Platform Multiple users can Allow publish content people Tuneable access controls to connect Open logins
- 12. No licensing costs. Drupal is open- source software: no acquisition or licensing costs. Built on other open-source projects
- 13. Get Drupal drupalgardens.com. DAMP stack: acquia.com/downloads drupal.org/start: Downloads/distributions Documentation Books Issue queues IRC
- 14. Get Drupal drupalgardens.com. DAMP stack: acquia.com/downloads drupal.org/start: Downloads/distributions Documentation Books Issue queues IRC
- 15. Get Drupal drupalgardens.com. DAMP stack: acquia.com/downloads drupal.org/start: Downloads/distributions Documentation Books Issue queues IRC
- 16. Get Drupal drupalgardens.com. DAMP stack: acquia.com/downloads drupal.org/start: Downloads/distributions Documentation Books Issue queues IRC
- 17. Download and unpack to server directory
- 20. Configure
- 21. 10 mins to here
- 22. 10 mins to here Start adding content, download modules (via browser) or configure structure, appearance or module settings.
- 23. Fundamental Drupal Architecture Data - Nodes (entities). Functionality – core and contrib modules. Blocks – data output Selective access HTML/CSS output
- 24. Content - Entities/Nodes Content = nodes. Can create custom entities. Can add custom fields + relationships to entities.
- 25. Modules: functionality Optional in default (core)install, eg: Blog Forum Locale OpenID Search RDF
- 26. Modules: functionality Optional in default (core)install, eg: Optional (contributed) modules free to download drupal.org/ Blog project/modules Some of most popular: Forum Views Token Locale Pathauto WYSIWYG OpenID Date Webform Search 10,000 modules + sandboxes RDF Reviews at drupalmodules.com
- 27. Get a Module Basic info Downloads Current issues Resources Similar modules Download to: mysite/sites/all/modules
- 28. Enable Go to http://mysite/admin/ modules Check module (and save)
- 29. Themes: Template Each webpage has regions for content and blocks. drupal.org/project/ themes Base themes - can override with custom sub-theme Drupal (7) not quite HTML5-ready.
- 30. Download Theme Browse themes at http://drupal.org/project/themes Download and decompress at mysite/sites/all/themes/ Enable and configure at http://mysite/admin/appearance
- 31. Community Support: Module issue queues and IRC Drupal Association (€22/year) Annual Drupalcons - Europe/Americas (£250+) Drupal Camps - annually (low cost) Local meetups (Glasgow/Edinburgh) - monthly
- 32. Beginner’s Books Best intro: Using Drupal (O’Reilly) Technical reference: Definitive Guide to Drupal (Apress) Intro to Theming: Drupal 7 Theming Cookbook (Packt)
- 33. Beginner’s Books Best intro: Using Drupal (O’Reilly) Technical reference: Definitive Guide to Drupal (Apress) Intro to Theming: Drupal 7 Theming Cookbook (Packt)
- 34. Beginner’s Books Best intro: Using Drupal (O’Reilly) Technical reference: Definitive Guide to Drupal (Apress) Intro to Theming: Drupal 7 Theming Cookbook (Packt)
- 35. Beginner’s Books Best intro: Using Drupal (O’Reilly) Technical reference: Definitive Guide to Drupal (Apress) Intro to Theming: Drupal 7 Theming Cookbook (Packt)
- 36. Beginners’ Recommendations Information Services Hydrant Room i-KOS Room Room 0945 Bring your designer to Storage API big Drupal project and the Drupal side of the contrib force 1045 Drupal Commerce - the Recommender API and Symfony: An Introduction product vs display "Users who read this conundrum and how to also read" explain it to a customer 1130 WEM - Drupal's New Building a huge content Entities Everywhere Frontier sharing network using Domain Access 1315 Get going with Git Deploying new function- Dapper Sites with ality using the Features Display Suite module 1400 Editor interface KISS Caching with Drupal and Drupal Security for the LAMP stack Coders - How to Avoid "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" 1545 Panel: "Roast of the Hosts" Adding images to your content - the options
- 37. Welcome (0930)! Robert Carr @robertgcarr rob@cognimatic.com