Using Drupal OSCON 2009

Introduction portion of a workshop given at OSCON 2009:

http://www.oscon.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/8457

Transcript

1. Using Drupal OSCON 2009 Wednesday, 9 November, 11
2. hi Wednesday, 9 November, 11
3. James Walker “walkah” Addison Berry “add1sun” Wednesday, 9 November, 11
4. “walkah” “add1sun” Wednesday, 9 November, 11
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7. What is Drupal? Wednesday, 9 November, 11
8. Drupal is... Wednesday, 9 November, 11
9. Drupal is... • Content Management System Wednesday, 9 November, 11
10. Drupal is... • Content Management System • Content Management Framework Wednesday, 9 November, 11
11. Drupal is... • Content Management System • Content Management Framework • Community Wednesday, 9 November, 11
12. Lego for building websites http://www.flickr.com/photos/larimdame/ Wednesday, 9 November, 11
13. Building a Drupal Site Wednesday, 9 November, 11
14. Building a Drupal Site • Install Wednesday, 9 November, 11
15. Building a Drupal Site • Install • Basic configuration (permissions, etc) Wednesday, 9 November, 11
16. Building a Drupal Site • Install • Basic configuration (permissions, etc) • Content types Wednesday, 9 November, 11
17. Building a Drupal Site • Install • Basic configuration (permissions, etc) • Content types • Views Wednesday, 9 November, 11
18. Building a Drupal Site • Install • Basic configuration (permissions, etc) • Content types • Views • Theme Wednesday, 9 November, 11
19. Building a Drupal Site • Install • Basic configuration (permissions, etc) • Content types • Views • Theme • Profit Wednesday, 9 November, 11
20. Building a Drupal Site • Install • Basic configuration (permissions, etc) • Content types • Views • Theme • Profit • (ok, maybe some tweaking) Wednesday, 9 November, 11
21. Thinking Drupal Wednesday, 9 November, 11
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34. Installation Wednesday, 9 November, 11
35. Requirements http://drupal.org/requirements Wednesday, 9 November, 11
36. Requirements • Linux (any OS will do, really) http://drupal.org/requirements Wednesday, 9 November, 11
37. Requirements • Linux (any OS will do, really) • Apache (recommended, while others can work) http://drupal.org/requirements Wednesday, 9 November, 11
38. Requirements • Linux (any OS will do, really) • Apache (recommended, while others can work) • MySQL (or Postgres) http://drupal.org/requirements Wednesday, 9 November, 11
39. Requirements • Linux (any OS will do, really) • Apache (recommended, while others can work) • MySQL (or Postgres) • PHP (just PHP) http://drupal.org/requirements Wednesday, 9 November, 11
40. Basic settings Wednesday, 9 November, 11
41. Site Information • Site name • Email • Footer message, etc. • Default front page Wednesday, 9 November, 11
42. Menus • Provide Navigation • Entries added by modules • Administrators can override Wednesday, 9 November, 11
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44. Blocks • Contained in regions • Theme can define any number of regions • Additional content: lists of links, additional info, etc Wednesday, 9 November, 11
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47. Taxonomy • Used for categorizing content • Multiple vocabularies • Supports flat lists, hierarchies, and free tagging “folksonomies” Wednesday, 9 November, 11
48. Content Types Wednesday, 9 November, 11
49. Content Types • Multiple content types - created by admins • Different workflows • Different structure - via CCK Wednesday, 9 November, 11
50. Speaker • Name (title) • Bio (body) • Company (field_organization) • Photo (field_speaker_photo) Wednesday, 9 November, 11
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56. Session • Title (title) • Description (body) • Room (field_room) • Session Type (field_session_type) • Date (field_date) • Speakers (field_speakers) Wednesday, 9 November, 11
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64. Views Wednesday, 9 November, 11
65. Views • Query builder - with a GUI • Generates listings of stuff • Provides multiple displays • Highly extensible Wednesday, 9 November, 11
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68. Theme Wednesday, 9 November, 11
69. Theme • Controls the look and feel • CSS, JS, Images and PHP files (on disk) • Can override how anything looks Wednesday, 9 November, 11
70. Demo Wednesday, 9 November, 11