Drupal presentation

Index
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Dru What ?

What can it do ?

TP : set up Drupal

Structure

DataBase

Node

TP : change Date & Time

Layout, region and blocks

Index

Admin menu
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TP : Site information

Users + TP : Users

TP : Clean URL’s

Menus

Modules + TP Modules
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Best Modules

Dru What ?

Drupal is a full-features CMS (Content
Managment System) open source written in
PHP.


Started in 1999 by Dries Buytaert (Belgium)


« druppel » (Dutch) means drop and is
prononciated « Drupal » in English

What can it do ?

Community WebSite

Blog

Forums

Social Network Site

Wiki / Knowledge Base

Business Web Application

…

What can it do ?

Warner bros

What can it do ?

PlayStation

What can it do ?

Ubuntu

What can it do ?

GreenPeace

What can it do ?

And …

What can it do ?

Playboy

TP : Set up Drupal


Get Drupal 7.10

Install WAMP / MAMP

Create host & DB and put files in htdocs

Install drupal 7.10


Estimated time = 5 minutes

Structure

Drupal is a database-driven application. It
requires a database


Drupal has a core filesystem whose
functionality can be extended using UI,
modules and themes

Database
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The Drupal’s DB tracks :
− Site and Module Settings,
− User’s informations,
− Access information,
− Login information,
− Permissions and user roles,
− System path,
− Content and content metadata, …

Node


A node is the primary form of content. At least a
title and a body, and can le specialized (CCK)


A « page » for example is a node that has
specific node settings

Node

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.. But not everything in drupal is a node!


User, taxonomy, account, … are not nodes

TP : change date & time


Configuration > Date et heure

Types / Formats / Localiser


Estimated time : 2 min

TP : change date & time

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Layout & Regions

A region is an area in a layout (such as header,
footer, content, sidebars, …) into which blocks
can be placed and arranged

A block is a box containing some information

A node resides in the content area of that
layout
Layout
Region
Block

Blocks

Blocks can contain views, wigets, menus, node
and panels.

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Blocks can be moved around trough UI

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Blocks can be styled individually (CSS)

Blocks

Blocks can contain views (customized list of datas), widgets
(interactive elements or graphs), menus, node and panels (customized

layouts of nodes).


Blocks can be moved around trough UI


Blocks can be styled individually (CSS)

Admin menu

It’s the place to configure Drupal.


The settings available depends on which
modules are installed and enabled


Permissions allow users to have some access
to module settings

TP : site information

Configuration > Système > Informations

Change the slogan and save


Take a tour in the Admin interface


Estimated time : 5 minute

Users

Drupal supports the concepts of Role and
Permissions; Rôles are user designations to
groups having the same set of permissions.


A site visitor (not logged) is called a guest, visitor
or anonymous user and have an uid of 0

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All anonymous have a set of permissions assigned
to them.

Users

One user may belong to one or more roles


Every registered user belongs to at least the
autenticated-user role (uid=2)


The Roor user or Root admin is the Drupal God
and have a uid of 1 but he does not have role-
permissions to set because… he’s god !

Users


If you grant permissions to an authenticated
user, it applies to ALL authenticated roles
except the anonymous user !!!

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Then, to grant a permission to everyone on a
site, you must grant the permission to both the
anonymous user and authehticated user!

TP : Users


Personnes > Ajouter un utilisateur

Personnes > Supprimer un utilisateur

Observer les droits, et ajouter un rôle

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TP : Clean URL’s


Importants for SEO and clearier


Admin > configuration >
URLs simplifiées > activate and save



Modules

Core Modules (required)
− Block (box display), Filter (input format), Node (content) , System
(admin, therming, …), User, Watchdog (login) , …


Core (optional)
− Blog, Poll, Comment, Forum, Menu, Statistics,
Locale, Upload, Taxonomy, …

Contribution modules (/sites/all/modules)
− CCK, Views, Schedule, PathAuto, …

TP : Modules

Modules > Update Manager (select and apply)

(launch the cron)

Modules > Modules contribués (search CKEDITOR
and copy the address of the tar.gz)

Modules > Installer un nouveau module > paste the
link, execute and activate the module.

No, download and put CKEDITOR in
sites/all/modules/ckeditor/ckeditor

Estimated time :15 min

Best Modules
 CCK  Devel
 Views  Drush
 Panels  LightBox
 Webform (+FileField)  Gmap
 Workflow  Pathauto
 CKEditor / IMCE  Page_title
 Calendar  Linkchecker

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