Hello Drupal!
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1. The document provides an overview of topics that will be covered in a Drupal course, including introductions, learning concepts and doing demos, getting to know each other, essential things to know about Drupal, and readiness checks. 2. It demonstrates how to manage content using the Drupal administrative interface, covering adding pages, articles, and menu links. 3. It explains how Drupal organizes content as structured data rather than folders and documents, and how the Views module can be used to build lists of content. 4. It discusses the three main ways of extending Drupal: site building, layout and theming, and custom module development.
Hello Drupal!
- 1. Hello Drupal Created by Acquia Learning Services (http://training.acquia.com/) Want to take this course online? http://bit.ly/hello2014
- 2. What we'll do in this course Depends on how much time we have! Learn concepts Watch demos Try it yourself
- 3. Getting to know you About me Why I use Drupal What I do with Drupal About you! What other systems have you used?
- 4. What you absolutely must know 1. 2. 3. 4. What is Drupal? Admin tour: Managing content with Drupal Thinking like Drupal: The Drupal Magic Trick Extending Drupal: The Big Three
- 5. Readiness check! Tools you need Nice to have 1. A working copy of Drupal 7 1. Browser inspection tool, such Local install (Try Dev as Firebug for Firefox; or Desktop) OR "Developer mode" in Chrome Acquia Free Tier OR 2. Lorem ipsum generator Account on Drupal Gardens 2. Online exercises.
- 7. Why do we have CMSs? Old days: just HTML To database-driven! Sites were mainly text and images Hierarchical site structure. Sites were assumed to be accessed mainly from their front pages. Site maintenance consisted of updating text files. Templating languages like PHP. Separate data and business logic separated from display. Users, logging in and interacting. Non technical staff managing websites
- 8. In comes Drupal! Photo by Kathleen Murtagh Dries' State of Drupal keynote (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceardach/4540450692) (CC BY 2.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en_GB)
- 9. Used worldwide—many cases Publishing, Community, Apps, Web presence See more at drupalshowcase.com (http://drupalshowcase.com) Economist.com, Dev.twitter.com, Whitehouse.gov, The King Center
- 10. What does Drupal run on? LAMP stack is most widely used and tested. Requirements and flexibility Details drupal.org/requirements (https://drupal.org/requirements) Built in PHP, HTML, CSS, JS. Other OSs, other servers, other DBs possible (in green)
- 11. Building with Drupal Drupal functionality is easily extended with contributed and custom code About 80-90% of a typical project is done with contributed code!
- 12. Drupal.org (http://drupal.org) How many developers have contributed to Drupal? (Hint: check "d.o") Drupal.org (http://drupal.org) is the canonical location for collaboration, support, downloading code, accessing documentation and connecting to regional and working groups. Referred to as "d.o"
- 13. Drupal is built by people Drupal is software but also a community. All photos by Kathleen Murtagh code sprints (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceardach/) (CC BY 2.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en_GB)
- 14. DrupalCon Held in Europe, North America and Australia From 1500-3000 people 5 days of learning and collaboration Affordable ticket prices; also Scholarships! Where's the next DrupalCon? Hint! Check association.drupal.org/drupalcon (https://association.drupal.org/drupalcon)
- 15. Connect locally Attend meet-ups, DrupalCamps (local conferences) and training Drupical (http://drupical.com) hosts and up to date listing of events across the world.
- 17. Drupal as a CMS Demos by your Drupal guide; you try the tasks. In Drupal 7, most of the editing in the admin area is done in the "overlay".
- 18. Managing content with Drupal Demo 1. A quick tour of the admin UI, the overlay and menus. 2. How to add content? 3. Where to find content? Tasks 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Change your site title! Add a basic page Add an article Bonus: Main menu link Bonus: Comments
- 19. How did you do? Which of these tasks did you complete? 1. Changed site title. 2. Added a Basic page titled “About”. 3. Created an article with tags. 4. Bonus: Added a comment. 5. Bonus: Added link to Main menu.
- 20. Important to know! The Drupal content editing experience can (and should) be customized by the developers for users. 1. Custom administration pages 2. Improved UI for editing content 3. WYSIWYG configuration
- 22. Assembling your website Your mental model might be like this. You use Drupal to assemble sites with data. Drupal surprises users who expect "structure first". Drupal is "data first". The computing metaphor of "folders" and "documents" is compelling. Beware!
- 23. Structured data Compare these two data models. How can you control content input and display with either? Unstructured text on the left, structured data (fields) on the right.
- 24. Introducing Views! Views is a query builder. It's the most popular contributed module. This shows the Views wizard screen which we'll use in the demo.
- 25. Drupal Magic Trick! Demo 1. 2. 3. 4. Tasks Add a content type 1. Use Views! Add an imagefield 2. Make a page of articles at Create content (add a node) /articles Create lists of content with Views 5. Place a block into a region 6. Fix the imagestyle
- 26. How did you do? Which of these tasks did you complete? 1. Created a view 2. Added a page of articles at /articles 3. Bonus: Did you try something else?
- 27. Important to know! Contributed modules extend what Drupal can do. Many modules like Views slideshow extend Views. Guess what it does?
- 29. First: Site Building Site building is everything you can do in the UI layer of Drupal
- 30. What is Site Building? Selecting and configuring contributed modules. Modeling content types, users, etc with fields. Configuring display of content, users, terms, etc. Configuring lists (views) of content, users, terms, etc.
- 31. Second: Layout and theming Layout and theming combines Drupal site building and coding in PHP/HTML/CSS/JS.
- 32. What is Layout and theming? 1. Layout: Where things appear on the screen 2. Theming: How they look Tasks include: Various approaches for different use cases. Contributed modules for configuring layout. Extending base themes Creating custom themes
- 33. Third: Custom coding with modules Modules answer questions such as "Can Drupal do X?"
- 34. What is module development? Knowing the landscape of contributed modules and roadmaps. Extending existing modules and contributing patches. Use Drupal's API to write new modules in PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript/etc. Custom modules for new functionality and integrations.
- 36. Tips on module selection Reputation Maintainers other contributions and involvement, IRC, word of mouth, appearance in case studies and blog posts. Reach Community around module? Related modules? Number of installations? Integrate with other modules? Currency Recent commits (last 4-6 weeks)? Recent release? (green/stable) Issue queue responsiveness and maintenance?
- 37. Reading a project page Demo Task 1. Compatible version for 1. Come up with an idea for Drupal 7? some functionality you'd like 2. How many installations? on your site. (No ideas? How 3. Who maintains this? about allowing users login 4. What are current issues? with Facebook.) 5. Is Documentation available? 2. Search for a module. 3. Evaluate it against the criteria we used: Reputation, reach, currency
- 38. A basic theme This is the bare minimum you need for a theme in Drupal 7.
- 39. What will happen? What do you think the site will display when we enable this theme? Enable themes under "Appearance"
- 40. What will happen? What do you think the site will display when we enable this theme? Enable themes under "Appearance"