Walking the walk and talking the talk…

THE LANGUAGE OF DRUPAL

ZONE OF PROXIMAL DEVELOPMENT

Here to There

CONTEXT OF DRUPAL

WHAT IS DRUPAL

Open

Community

Content Management System

Content

Design

Technical Design

DRUPAL CORE

The basic features common to Content Management Systems.

Includes modules, themes, maintenance, admin

Anything outside of the sites folder in a Drupal installation

DISTRIBUTIONS

Drupal 5.0

Drupal 6.0

Windows XP

Drupal 7.0

Improve performance/scalability

Beef up core modules

Increase adoption

Drupal 8.0

Better HTML5

More mobile

More modern framework

DRUPAL CORE

Content

File uploads/downloads

Menus

User Accounts

Roles and Permissions

Taxonomy

Blogs

Forums

Polls

Search engine

Language capabilities

Logging and error reporting

MODULES

An add-on in Drupal that provides enhanced features and functionality

Core Contributed

COMMUNITY

DrupalCon

Semi-annual event alternating between North America and Europe Over 3,300 attended latest event in Portland

Drupal Camp

Smaller events

Us!

NODE

Piece of content

Based on same type of data structure

Have a title and body content

Comprised of fields

Node types

Extend the base node by adding data attributes

Not everything is a node

Users, blocks, comments

CONTENT

Content Types

Predefined collection of data types (fields) which relate to each other in an informational context.

Examples Page

Article

CONTENT TYPES

Basic Page

Title field

Body field

Article

Title field

Body field

Image field

Defined tags

Custom

FRAMEWORK

Page Region

Block

Block

Regi

on

BLOCKS

Snippets of text or functionality that live outside main content areas

Left/right sidebars

Header/footers

Have a title/description

Not full-fledged content

Not a node

Can be amazingly complex

FIELDS

Reusable pieces of data

Name of field

Type of data

ENTITIES

Entity Types

• Nodes (content)

• Comments• Taxonomy

terms• User

profiles

Bundles

• Subtypes of entity type

• Not all entity subtypes have

Fields

• Reusable piece of content

• Helps organize data

Entity

• One instance of a particular entity type

• Noun; not a verb

TAXONOMY

A mechanism for organizing content of your site (categories)

Vocabulary - Group of related terms

Term - Word or phrase that describes distinct aspect of a vocabulary

Movie Genre

Comedy

Slapstick

Romantic

ActionAction

Drama

Vocabulary

Terms

Actors

VIEWS

An easy to use module that allows you to select and display lists of content on your website.

Arrangement of data on a page to create desired display

PANELS

Module that allows you to divide up your content area beyond regions and blocks

Two-column stacked

Three-column

Flexible

THEME

System

Collection of files that make up the look and feel of your site

Come with core

Download from the web

Pay from the web

Design your own

Responsive

Omega

THEME

Core

Free sites

Paid sites

Design Your Own

FORM API

Application Programming Interface

Generate, validate, process HTML forms

Instead of HTML, you create an array and let the engine generate the HTML

Very easy to modify

Map form elements to theme functions

Secure

EVENTS AND TRIGGERS

Event

A message sent from one component of the system to others

Hook

Modules hook into flow of execution

Operation

Specific process within the hook

Trigger

Combination of the hook and operation that causes an action

Action

Something Drupal does

HOOKS

Internal Drupal events

“Callbacks”

Allow modules to “hook into” what is happening in the rest of Drupal.

Most common way to tap into Drupal’s core functionality.

Example: Log in and the user hook. Helps shape the user experience at login

FILE LAYOUT

The directory structure of a default Drupal installation

BOOTSTRAP PROCESS

How Drupal serves requests

Initializes configuration

Early page cache

Initialize database

Hostname/IP-based access control

Initialize session handling

Late page cache

Language determination

Path

Full

Processes request

Themes data

OTHER TERMS

Actions

Something Drupal does

Function

Clearly defined task

Users

Permissions

OTHER TERMS I MISSED

Drush

Cache