Anatomy of Drupal

• Drupal?• Who’s who?• Why drupal?• How to use it?• Who uses drupal?• ???????????????????

Drupal?

open source modular LargeCommunity

Content Management Framework 2001 PHP mysql Very Secure free flexible

www Drop scalability UserControl

Powerful extensible drupal.org

Who’s who?

Dries Buytaert• Creater of drupal

• learned to program when he was six years old

• Co-founder of Acqiua

• Co-founder of Mollom

• Young Entrepreneurs of Tech by Business Week

Why Drupal?• 3% of the worlds websites are built in drupal

• Rapid Website Assembly

• Powerful UI customization options

• 26,247 free modules/plugins available

• 1,970 free themes

• Lot of pre built distributions

• And one more …. Drupal is fun !!

• Drupal’s functionality is easily extendable using contributed modules & custom code

• About 80-90% of the website is built using the core & the contributed modules

• As per the ratings by IBM

How to use it?

• Lets try it….

Content type

• Each Content type can have multiple fields or attributes eg :– Name– Photo– Address– Gender etc

Taxonomy

Custom modules

Contributed modules

Views

Services

Drupal CoreCck Date Blog

Modules

Menu

People

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• These are packages which give Drupal along with additionalfunctionalities

• Eg: – Drupal Commerce– Drupal Commons

Drupal Distributions

Drupal Commerce

Drupal Commerce

Who uses Drupal?

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• Any Questions???

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