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Intro to Drupal
Paris, France
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Commerce Guys is the
Based in
London, UK
COMPANY
About me
● Drupal developer at Commerce Guys● Drupal Association board director (community
elected)● London newbie!● Building Drupal websites since 2007.
Pedro Cambra – [email protected]
What is
Drupal is an free, open-source content management system, an highly extensible and
versatile framework to run from the simplest to the most complex web projects.
Drupal allows you to build and launch web applications with a large amount of work already
done for you.
What is
Benjamin Melançon – The definitve guide to Drupal 7
Drupal is a CMS...
● Provides full control over the content publication workflow.
● Content categorisation and management.● Role and user management. Privacy and access
control.● Content presentation in a variety of formats.● Extensible and modular system.
But a Content Management Framework too
● Tools provided to build a CMS tailored for your needs.
● Form system, database abstraction layer, Caching tools at several levels...
● Schema builder (field system) and query builder (Views module)
● Distribution / Packaging support.● API for developers. http://api.drupal.org/
Origin of Drupal● Designed in 2001 for
controlling a local network of users.
● The initial name “drop.org” was a typo of his creator, Dries Buytaert
● He wanted to register dorp.org.
● Drupal is the English word of dutch “druppel” meaning drop.
Dries Buytaert
Drupal growth
● Drupal empowers more than 2% of all the sites online.
● Almost 1 million users registered in drupal.org in more than 200 countries, speaking 180 languages.
● Drupal 7 sites triple Drupal 6 sites.
Drupal Community
Drupalcon Brussels 2006
Drupalcon Munich 2012
What Drupal can do?
Simple sites
Drupal is the perfect choice for fairly simple sites such a personal page or blog.
● Drupal provides solid content management by default.
● Comments support, permissions, blocks...● Great number of extensions (modules) and
contributed templates
Complex sites
When designing a complex sites, Drupal provides the ability to extend basic features to achieve full customization.
● Database layer abstraction, entities vs content.
● “Building” extensions such a query builder (Views) or workflow manager (Rules).
● Good API for developers when really specific requirements are provided.
Social NetworksA social network requires a high component of interaction between the users and granular privacy layers.
● Drupal provides a great control over permissions.
● Support for roles out of the box, user profiles (Profile2) an groups (Organic groups) as contributions.
● Flagging content and other social network interactions also available.
News sites
News sites require content categorisation, high performance and strong SEO support.
● Drupal provides content categorisation out of the box, tagging or category sets.
● Solid integration with high-level performance tiers, Varnish, Nginx, Solr...
● SEO friendly by default, RDF support. Other plugins help (Pathauto, Metadata)
Corporate sites
Drupal controls which pages are published, also provides good content interaction and visual customizations.
● Easy way to generate static pages out of the box.
● Social content such as comments, link sharing or blog capabilities.
● Responsive templates available, easy to plug and play other or custom.
Web applications
The web ecosystem is evolving towards more complex needs, availability to display content in diverse devices and responsiveness.
● Good source of responsive templates.● jQuery and jQuery UI out of the box, other
libraries available out of the box.● Drupal community has embraced the “mobile
first” approach. Drupal 8 will be mobile friendly out of the box.
REST servers
It is possible to use Drupal just as backend of one or multiple applications build just as front-end consumers.
● Expose your content as JSON, XML in diverse ways.
● Full REST API servers (Services) or just a bit of the website (Views data export)
E-commerceDrupal is an excellent platform to build e-commerce systems, extensible and secure.
● Drupal commerce is a solid and mature extension to build e-commerce sites on top of Drupal.
● Hundreds of payment gateways and other extensions allow to build complex e-commerce platforms tailored to the customer needs.
What's inside?
Drupal architecture
Files structure
Structure of modules
Source: Dries Buytaert
Drupal distributions
Who is using Drupal?
Demo time!
Further resources
Video resources
● Four weeks of Drupal● Learn Views & Learn Rules● Drupalize.me● Lynda.com● Buildamodule.com● Modulesunraveled.com
Video resources
● Four weeks of Drupal● Learn Views & Learn Rules● Drupalize.me● Lynda.com● Buildamodule.com● Modulesunraveled.com
Books
Drupal books are listed in http://drupal.org/books
Some recommendations:● The definitive guide to Drupal 7● Using Drupal (2nd edition)● Drupal user's guide● Drupal 7: Visual Quickstart guide
Meetups, groups & campsLearning Drupal meetup
Drupal drop in sprint
Drupalcamp Scotland (April)
Drupalcamp Dublin (May)
Drupalcon Portland & Drupalcon Prague
Check out drupical.com
Drupal Association
● Maintaining and updating the hardware and software infrastructure of Drupal.org
● Empowering project participation and contribution
● Community Cultivation Grants● Legal work and advocacy for Drupal project● Funding of Scholarships● Organising DrupalCons around the world
¡Muchas gracias!
@pcambra
cambrico.net
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