Introduction to drupal
- 1. Introduction to Drupal Mayank Kumar 28 Oct 2009 IIT Delhi
- 2. What is Drupal? Drupal is an open source Content Management System. A historic look at website creation. Simple HTML pages – 1990a – Frontpage Dreamweaver Script and CGI -> Databases Generalized tool to create, edit, and organize content – CMS. Drupal eliminates the webmaster.
- 3. Drupal Stack Apache is the web server. PHP is the scripting language MySQL is the datavase Drupal Core –PHP API Core Modules – Nodes, Users Contributed module Theme system
- 4. Hands on Task 1 Download latest drupal release from www.drupal.org Extract it to your Web server root. Point your browser to http://localhost/ Create database and do needful configuration Create a Sample content.
- 5. Getting Started with Drupal Creating Content Creating a Sample Page. Create a sample page with Summary Comments Menu System (Navigation System) Primary Menu Secondary Menu Blocks
- 6. Getting into managing site Content Management Comments Content RSS publishing Site Building Site Configuration Site Management Site Maintenance Clean URLs User Management Permission Users
- 7. Retrospection What we have achieved? What and why a CMS How Drupal works Drupal Installation Creating a Static Site using drupal Why are we learning drupal Content and presentation (theming) are separated. Modules to add any new functionality
- 8. Drupal Themes Installing New themes Configuring theme Logo Favicon
- 9. Drupal Core Modules Contact Module Path Module Search Module Upload Module
- 10. Blogging using Drupal Editing the Story Content type. Create a blog post Need of a Web based editor Need of automatic path setting. Administration navigation takes time. Install modules Pathauto, Token, administrator Menu and FCKeditor Permission Control Input formats
- 11. Other Blogging features Tagging Category Blog page showing latest post summary RSS feeds Blocks – Recent Comments Blocks – Tag cloud Blocks – Archive Social Bookmarking Taxonomy Views Find Out?
- 13. Coming Sessions ….. Views and CCK – the heart of drupal Taxonomy – To categorize content Multimedia – Audio, video, photo-gallery Theming and CSS – Customizing the look and feel Social Networking – The organic group Getting your hands dirty – PHP coding for modules
- 14. Book to refer
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