Drupal for Programmers
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The document summarizes Drupal, an open source content management framework. It provides a brief history of Drupal, noting it was created in 2001 by Dries Buytaert as a small news site. It discusses Drupal's key features including modularity, extensibility, and quality coding standards. The document also outlines some of Drupal's core modules that provide functionality like content creation, taxonomy, views, and media handling. It concludes by discussing the potential for Drupal to enable features of Web 3.0 like personalized publishing and semantic content.
Drupal for Programmers
- 1. Presentation Title w w w . u n i m i t y . c o m DEC 2010 Drupal as a Content Management Framework Unimity Solutions. 3, 5th Floor, "Kasi Arcade" 116, Thyagaraya Road, T.Nagar, Chennai 600017 India, Phone: (91- 44) 43923800 www.unimity.com
- 2. Presentation Path What does Drupal mean to a programmer? History of Drupal Drupal‘s Architecture Highlights of Drupal - LIVE DEMO Key Drupal Modules Drupal Modules For Programmers Drupal 7 The Next Frontier – Web 3.0 Useful Links
- 3. History of Drupal Dries Buytaert was the founder of Drupal. He started a small news site with a built-in web board, allowing a group of friends to share content. He called it drop.org. Drop was a typo for the dutch word drop that meant village In January 2001, Dries released the free software Drupal, that means Drop in dutch! Over 650,000 users
- 4. What does Drupal mean to a programmer? Access to a frame work to build on Faster reach to customer A whole bundle of Contributed modules Coding standards Community and Support
- 5. Drupal’s Architecture Content Publishing is it’s Key feature At the core is Data/ Assets – Multiple data formats and media are supported Modules provide various functionalities Collaborate Interact Share Organizing data to cater to different contexts Blocks and menus are output / navigation elements – allows for personalization of representing information User Permissions – roles based access to information and functions Template – provides for various layout options – allows for presentation and styles
- 6. Highlights of Drupal Modular and extensible Quality coding Standards-based Low resource demands Open source Ease of use Collaboration
- 7. Key Drupal Modules CCK Views Taxonomy Organic Group Rating Commenting Blogs Video Image File field Quiz Simple News
- 8. Drupal Module For Programmers Devel module Coder Module
- 9. Drupal 7 USABILITY Better media handling Custom content types in core WYSIWYG Editor Better Performance Better tools to structure/organize content Basic Views like module
- 10. The next frontier – Web 3.0 The advent of semantic web Context based information User interface for content enrichment Provide for personalized publishing and interaction In addition to all the functionalities and capabilities of Web 2.0
- 11. Useful Links Drupal.org Handbook Pages: http:// drupal.org /handbooks Lullabot: http ://www.lullabot.com Drupal dojo: http:// drupaldojo.com /
- 12. Thank You!