Drupal Overview For Techies

Drupal Overview For Techies

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  A Tech-lite Overviewof Drupal Robert Carr @robertgarr [email protected] Drupal - Technical Introduction 1
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  20-ish slides:45 minutes Overview Technical structure Customizing Performance Getting started Q&A Drupal - Technical Introduction 2
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  What is it? Drupalis a free, community-built website development tool used across the world. Mostly software written in PHP language. Currently powers about 1 in 50 websites. Drupal - Technical Introduction 3
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  No licensing costs. Drupalis open- source software: no acquisition or licensing costs. Built on other open- source projects Drupal - Technical Introduction 4
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  Build Websites Quickly. Assemblewebsites with the simple UI, or > drush dl drupal --drupal-project-rename=example a powerful shell > cd example > drush site-install standard --db- url=mysql://[db_user]:[db_pass]@localhost/[db_name] --site- interface. name=Example > Out-of-the-box distributions for complete solutions. Drupal - Technical Introduction 5
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  Flexible. Add functionality with[10K+] plug-in modules. Writing custom code with versatile API. Huge worldwide development community. Drupal - Technical Introduction 6 © Drupal Association 2011
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  Customise the look. Hundredsof templates can be freely downloaded to customize the appearance. Use custom HTML and CSS for unique design. Drupal - Technical Introduction 7
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  Scalable and Deployable Outof the box, can drive simple websites or blogs. Can be scaled-up > 1000s pages/sec. Re-use single codebase for multiple sites. Drupal - Technical Introduction 8
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  Secure. Code written tohigh standards. Dedicated security team. Patches and advice easily available. Drupal - Technical Introduction 9
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  Social Publishing Platform Multipleusers can publish content Tunable access controls Open logins Allows people to connect Drupal - Technical Introduction 10
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  Let’s Get Tinkering Drupal - Technical Introduction 11
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  Drupal Stack PHP Database abstraction layer MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQLite/SQL Server/… Apache/lighttpd/IIS/nginx/… Linux/BSD/OSX/Windows/Solaris/… • Pre-configured DAMP stack (Win/OSX/Debian/Ubuntu) network.acquia.com/downloads • Virtualbox package:Technical Introduction Drupal - drupal.org/project/quickstart 12
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  Fundamental Drupal Architecture 1. Data - Nodes (entities). 2. Functionality – core and contrib modules. 3. Blocks – data output 4. Selective access 5. HTML/CSS output Drupal - Technical Introduction 13
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  Entities • Nodes (data) •Users • Taxonomy • Comments Can create custom entities. Can add custom fields + relationships to entities. Drupal - Technical Introduction 14
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  Modules Core Contributed drupal.org/project/modules Optional in default install Examples: Some of most popular: • Blog • Views • Token • Forum • Pathauto • Locale • WYSIWYG • Date • OpenID • Webform • Search 10,000 modules + sandboxes • RDF Reviews at drupalmodules.com Drupal - Technical Introduction 15
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  Site Building DRUSH (DrupalShell) drupal.org/project/drush. Drush Make. SSH. Git. Distributions (off the shelf). Drupal - Technical Introduction 16
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  Drupal Themes Each webpage has regionsfor content and blocks. drupal.org/project/t hemes Base themes Sub-theme hierarchy Drupal (7) not quite HTML5-ready. Drupal - Technical Introduction 17
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  Template File Content *.tpl.php Templatefiles – mix HTML and PHP snippets. Can override base theme templates. Custom templates for specific node types. Drupal - Technical Introduction 18
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  Theme Developer Contrib modulefor page inspection (Firebug style) Drupal - Technical Introduction 19
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  Caching Start Block caching (core) Bootstrap Page caching - for anonymous users: Load node by path • Core (anon) argument • Boost (anon > static HTML) Builder the render array for loaded node Memcached – DB + page cache Generate markup for whole page Pressflow – High Performance Drupal distro Sends rendered • Varnish + APC page End Drupal - Technical Introduction 20
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  Drupal 8 –Addressing Problems Code freeze early 2013, release within 12 months • Use of Symfony • Web services: REST • HTML5 ready • Mobile/responsive themes • Configuration/staging • Drag and Drop UI • Change to core functionality (-Blog, +WYSIWYG…) Drupal - Technical Introduction 21
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  Getting Started drupalgardens.com. DAMP stack. drupal.org/start: •Downloads/distributions • Documentation • Books • Issue queues • IRC Drupal - Technical Introduction 22
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  Going Solo –Drupal Installation Download via drupal.org/start and unpack to server directory Navigate to new site root in browser Drupal - Technical Introduction 23
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  Basic Configuration DB config– need to create new database apriori. Drupal - Technical Introduction 24
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  Get Started Start addingcontent, download modules (via browser) or configure structure, appearance or module settings. Drupal - Technical Introduction 25
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  or… Drush Install >drush dl drupal > mysqladmin –u rob –p create drupal7 > drush site-install standard --account-name=admin -- account-pass=letmein--db- url=mysql://rob:letmein@localhost/drupal7 (One or two steps missed out..!) Install Drupal with Drush via SSH: bit.ly/JB68oq Drupal - Technical Introduction 26
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  Where next? DrupalCamp Scotland 25-26May – Edinburgh camp.drupalscotland.org drupal.org groups.drupal.org Drupal Association: • DrupalCon – Europe: late summer – N America: spring – S America: winter • Local meetups: – Glasgow (monthly) – Edinburgh (monthly) – Tayside? The Community is here to help Drupal - Technical Introduction 27
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  Why Drupal? • OpenSource => free • Rapid build • Customise functionality & appearance • Scalable & deployable • Secure • Designed for the social world • Community support Drupal - Technical Introduction 28
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  Questions? Robert Carr @robertgcarr [email protected] Drupal - Technical Introduction 29