Developers, site builders, and themers who are already familiar with Drupal’s secret handshakes and special sauces may be reluctant to invest time learning how to accomplish similar tasks in CiviCRM, but there are some big advantages to using CiviCRM with Drupal over one of the Drupal native CRM projects or a commercial SaaS solution. This sessions will answer many of the How’s to making Drupal and CiviCRM work well together, but we’ll also get into the Why.
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1. CiviCRM for Developers, Designers, andSite BuilderDrupalCamp
Austin 6/23
2. Kevin Reynen @kreynen on Drupal.org, CiviCRM.org, Twitter 3.
Kevin Reynen @kreynen on Drupal.org, CiviCRM.org, Twitter
google.com/search?q=kevin+drupal+civicrm 4. Kevin Reynen @kreynen
on Drupal.org, CiviCRM.org, Twitter
google.com/search?q=kevin+drupal+civicrm
google.com/search?q=beardcast 5. BeardcastsBeardcasts 6. A Little
Help Hosting 7. A Little Help Hosting 8. A Little Help Hosting 9. A
Little Help Hosting 10. A Little Help HostingA LOT of Help Hosting
11. February 2007December 2009March 2012 12. 8.9MB TinyMCE CKEditor
DOMPDF IDS JQuery JQuery UI JstreeBy Removing These Libraries...
13. Why? 14. Dont Hack Core 15. Dont HackDistribution 16. modules-
book- pole- block- color- contactprofiles- standard-
civicrm_starter- modules- civicrm- contrib- views- ctools- captcha-
features 17. modules- book- pole- block- color- contactprofiles-
standard- civicrm_startersites- all- modules- contrib- views-
themes 18. modules- book- pole- block- color- contactprofiles-
standard- civicrm_startersites- all- modules- contrib- views-
themes 19. COMPATIBLE Update Alterts 20. Process of updating
Drupaland CiviCRM the same... 21. Unless you use Pantheon 22.
CiviCRM Webform CiviCRM Group and Membership Sync CiviCRM Multiday
EventDrupal Modules that MakeLife Easier 23. Synchronize Data
Betweenthe Systems 24. CiviCRM Cron (CiviCRM Scheduled Jobs) Views
Rules Features CiviCRMDrupal Modules that MakeLife Easier 25.
Module Demos 26. Extended... with Extensions Hooks and tpls to
override CiviCRM uses Drupal Coding StyleWays CiviCRM is Similar
27. Self contained (same code works withWordPress) Bigger than
Drupal More Functionality Out of the Box Must configure location of
Extenstions andCustom themeWays CiviCRM is Different 28. Smarty
Template Engine 29. Smarty Syntax is differentthat PHPTemplatebut
so is Twig 30. Smarty Template Engine(WALL) 31. Smarty Template
Engine{$foo} 32. Smarty Template Engine{$foo.bar} 33. Smarty
Template Engine{foreach $foo as $bar}...{/foreach} 34.
&smartyDebug=1is your devel 35. Smarty Demo 36. Starter Kit vs.
ProductDistributions 37. Drupal + CiviCRM =Pros: Most
Features,Integration andCustomization PossibleCons: Not 100%
Drupal,Requires more CPU and 38. Drupal + SaleForce =Pros: Stable,
lots ofadditionalSF appsCons: SaaS, lock in, cost 39. Drupal +
RedHen =Pros: A lot of Integrationand CustomizationPossibleCons:
Upgrades,documentation, 40. *Major Upgrades toDistributions are
Hard 41. Open Atrium in D6? 42. Drupal Commerce 1.x 2.x? 43.
CiviCRM OftenIntroduces newFeatures BEFOREDrupal 44. Will D8s
.ymlconfigurationfix this? 45. WordPress + CiviCRM 46. WordPress
Demo 47. Why choose just one? 48. D7 CiviCRM WPD6
