INTRO TO DRUPAL

Part 1: Intro to Drupal (10:00 - 10:50am)Part 2: Getting Started / Demo (11:00-11:50am)

2011 Cleveland Regional APCUG Annual Meetinghttp://cleveland.apcug.org/

Sunday, July 17, 2011

JEFF SCHULER

jeff@websubstrate.com

http://www.websubstrate.com

http://drupal.org/user/239714/ (jeffschuler)

Cleveland Drupal User Grouphttp://www.meetup.com/cleveland-drupal/

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WHAT IS DRUPAL?

• Tool for building & running web sites and apps

• Content Management Framework (CMF)

• Product or Framework?

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SITES RUNNING DRUPAL

• ubuntu.com

• java.net

• dev.twitter.com

• ing.us

•mattel.com

• duke.edu

• amnesty.org

• foxsearchlight.com

•mtv.co.uk

• britney.com

• ericclapton.com

• dead.net

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SITES RUNNING DRUPAL...

• fastcompany.com

• popsci.com

• observer.com

• examiner.com

• economist.com

•motherjones.com

• recovery.gov

• investor.gov

• sba.gov

• itdashboard.gov

• ed.gov

• whitehouse.gov

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• http://drupal.org/cases

• http://websites.usandv.com/who-is-using-drupal

• http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites

SEE MORE EXAMPLES

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SOME NUMBERS

• 1+million sites (1.7% of the web)

• > 10,000 modules on drupal.org

• > 1,000 themes

• > 9,000 developers committed code to drupal.org

• > 3,000 people at DrupalCon Chicago 2011

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TYPES OF SITES

• Brochureware

• Blogs

• Content managed

• Groups/communities

• Social networking

• Intranets

• Publishing (workflows)

• E-commerce

• Geo

•Media-rich

• Relational-data-heavy

• International

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STRENGTHS

•Multi-user

• Rapid development

•Developer-friendly

• Community

• Flexibility

• PHP

• Usability

• Learning curve

• Upgrading

• Available themes

• Flexibility

• PHP

WEAKNESSES

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COMPARISONS

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OPEN SOURCE & COMMUNITY

• All code and files on drupal.org licensed under GPL (>= 2)

• Generally free

•Do-ocracy

• Issue Queues on drupal.org and IRC

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TECHNOLOGY

• LAMP, or really ***P

• Runs on a webserver (usually Apache)

•Needs a database (usually MySQL)

• PHP (& JS)

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CORE & CONTRIB

•Drupal is modular

• Core: Basic, typical functionality and API

• Contrib: Universe of possibility

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SOME CORE FEATURES

• Pages, blogs, forums, comments, polls

• Custom content types

• Custom fields (D7)

• Menus

• Blocks

• Taxonomy

• Image handling (D7)

• Search

• Users, permissions, roles, OpenID

• RDF (D7)

• Stats, logging

• Caching and throttling

• Clean URLs

• Syndication/Aggregation

• Multi-site

• Multi-language

• Update-checking

• a few themes

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CONTRIB

• > 10,000 modules - http://drupal.org/project/modules "There's a module for that."

• > 1,000 themes - http://drupal.org/project/themes

• Contrib sometimes becomes Core

• Install profiles

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CORE INITIATIVES FOR 8

• HTML 5

• Better support for web services and context (mobile)

• Configuration management

• Better multi-lingual

•Design

• http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core

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DRUPAL PRODUCTS

•OpenAtrium - http://openatrium.com/

•OpenPublish - http://openpublishapp.com/

•OpenPublic - http://openpublicapp.com/

•ManagingNews - http://managingnews.com/

• Features => Drupal App Store

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REQUIREMENTS

• UNIX/Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows

• Disk space: code (3MB - 50MB,) database, media

• Webserver : Apache, IIS, (and nginx and Lighthttpd)

• Database server : MySQL, PostgreSQL (D7:) SQLite and MariaDB, (Contrib:) SQL Server, Oracle

• PHP: recommended 5.2 for D6, 5.3 for D7

• http://drupal.org/requirements

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BUT WHAT IS IT?

•Drupal code (core, modules, themes) files

•Database: configuration and content data

• Your files (media, etc.)

• (let’s see...)

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NECESSARY TOOLS?

• Browser

• Text Editor (for HTML, CSS, PHP)

• Firebug - http://getfirebug.com/

• For reviewing/submitting patches: git

• Hardcore: IDE (ex. Eclipse), debugger (ex. XDebug)

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SETUP & INSTALL (TRADITIONAL)

• Set up stack (LAMP)

•Download Drupal

• Create database and a user with permissions to it

• Add database credentials to sites/default/settings.php

• Run installer through browser

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SETUP, EASIER

• Drupal Gardens - http://www.drupalgardens.com/

• WAMP - http://www.wampserver.com/

• MAMP - http://www.mamp.info/

• XAMPP - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

• Acquia Drupal - http://acquia.com/products-services/acquia-drupal

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GETTING DRUPAL

• http://drupal.org/project/drupal

•D6 vs. D7

•One-click installers (on your webhost)

• (and Acquia Drupal / Drupal Gardens)

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THEMES

• http://drupal.org/project/themes

• Using base themes: Zen, Fusion, Omega

• Starting with existing HTML

• (install, enable, anatomy)

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MODULES

• http://drupal.org/project/modules

• http://drupalmodules.com

• (install, enable, anatomy)

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CONCEPTS / DEMO

• Content Types

• Fields

• Taxonomy

•Menus

• Regions

• Blocks

• Views

• Panels

• Users

•Modules & Themes

•Drush

• Live site

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RESOURCES

• http://drupal.orghttp://groups.drupal.org

• IRC - http://drupal.org/irc

• Lullabot training (& more): http://www.lullabot.com/

•MustardSeed Video Podcast

• Books: lots. Try Using Drupal.

• User Groups, Camps, Cons

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CONTRIBUTING TO DRUPAL

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CONTRIBUTING TO DRUPAL

•Modules & themes

• Issue Queues

•Documentation / Handbook

• Translations

•Donate / chip-in

• http://drupal.org/contribute

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http://drupal.org/drupal-7-released

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THANKS!

Jeff Schuler

jeff@websubstrate.com

jeffschuler on drupal.org and twitter

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