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Introduction To Drupal-

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Drupal

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What is Drupal?

A Content Management System A Web Application Framework

Free and Open Source

Runs on Apache, PHP and MySQL(PostgreSQL)

Is used by thousands of websites

WhiteHouse.gov TheOnion.com BobDylan.com

Amnesty.org Mattel.com Britney.com

FastCompany.com LA2M.com MissionMetallica.com

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Drupal

OpenSource

CMS

DRUPAL

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Content Management Systems

WebsiteDatabase

Publisher

Reader

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Open Source CMS

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Comparison

Wordpress

End user friendly

Community less activein comparison

Very Web 2.0 Limited Scalability

MySQL

Decent PermissionSettings

Complete Control overCategorization of Content using taxonomy

SEO  Fantastic  Titletags match your articletitle and are

easy to add

Joomla

More of Designerfriendly

Active Community

Not Web 2.0 Decent Scalability

MySQL

Permissions  Lacking

Limited

Requires OpenSEF orSEO extensions

Drupal

Extremely developerfriendly.

Strong Community

Pure Web 2.0 High Scalability

MySQL/PostgresSQL

Precise GranularPermissions

Good Categorization viacategories and tags

Good SEO  all contenthas unique page withSEO friendly URL

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Web Application Frameworks

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Frameworks vs. CMS

Out of the Box Functionality

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Programmer Zone

Publisher Zone

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Why Use Drupal?

Content Management System with

the flexibility of a Web application

framework.

Building a website that integrates e-

Commerce, blogging, forums, etc.,

without having to create separate sites.

Community !! Community!!

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What Can it do?

Build Community Web Site

Weblogs Forums

Social Networking Sites

Wiki Knowledge Base

Business Web Application

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- changable

(Killer) Features

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Drupal Follows MVC

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Install Drupal

Stack

Linux (BSD, Mac OS, Windows, Solaris) Apache (lighttpd, IIS)

MySQL (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle)

PHP

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System Requirements

Web Server:

Apache: Drupal will work on Apache 1.3 or Apache 2.x hosted

on UNIX/Linux, OS X or Windows.

Microsoft IIS: Drupal core will work using IIS 5, IIS 6, or IIS 7.

Database:

MySQL: Drupal 6 supports MySQL 4.1 or higher. Recommended

by drupal.org

PostgreSQL: Drupal supports 7.4 or higher.

PHP:

Recommended: PHP 5.2.x

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Drupal Components

Content

ViewsModules

Theme

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Modules

Provides functionality to the web sites, from fundamentalfeatures such as ability to login or create content todynamic photo galleries and complex voting systems

Code for Drupal is in PHP. A set of PHP files grouped in a

folder to make a module.

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Modules

Core modules 

Contributed modules -

Custom modules - create your own

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Modules  Plug In/Out

Flexibility !

Ease of Adding a new functionality to

the site

Making the modules work out togetherto give an even better solution

Modules extending other modules

Customizing the modules your own

way, digging in the code

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Users

Roles  Assign, Add

Permissions - Assign

Administrator/Anonymous/Authenticat

ed Users Decide on the need of users  depends

upon the nature of website

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Themes

Drupal Presentation Layer  Themes  offersflexibility

Drupal encourages the separation of contentand the markup

files that change the look of the drupal output

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Content

 

NodeStory

Pages

Blog

Images

Video

Your owncontent

type

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Drupal Architecture

Technology Stack L(/W)AMPCode Base (Drupal 7)

Database

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DRUPAL

CSS Javascript

HTML

PHP Database(MySQL,PostgreSQL)

Web Server(Apache, IIS)

Operating System(Linux, Windows, Mac)

Theme System

Add on Module (Contributed/Custom)

Core Modules

Core Subsystems

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Operating

System

Web Server

Language

Database Abstraction Layer

Technology Stack

Database

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Overview of Drupal Core

BASIC CONTENT

MANAGEMENT

SESSION

MANAGEMENT

LOCALIZATION

USER

MANAGEMENT

SYNDICATION

URL

ALIASING

TEMPLATING LOGGING

LIBRARY OF COMMON FUNCTIONS

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File Structure

all

default