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Drupal basics

Part 1

Training plan

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Web Pages architecture

About Drupal

Drupal installation

Installation of modules

Translations

Content management

Menu management

Blocks management

Themes management

Web page types (1)

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Web pagesStatic (HTML, CSS)Dynamic(PHP, ASP, JSP, Ruby, etc)

Web page types (2)

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Web pagesStatic (HTML, CSS)Dynamic(PHP, ASP, JSP, Ruby, etc)

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PHP is a general-purpose scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages.

PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995.

While PHP originally stood for "Personal Home Page", it is now said to stand for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", a recursive acronym.

Last stable release: 5.3.7 (August 18, 2011;)

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP, http://php.net/

PHP code

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PHP Test

PHP web pages architecture

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Web Server(Apache, IIS, nginx)Database server(MySQL)Web BrowserPHP interpreterPHP files

Page is requested

Dynamic web page

PHP code interpretation

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PHP Test

PHP Test Hi Joe

PHP file on serverHTML content sent to the browser

PHP web pages architecture

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Web Server(Apache, IIS, nginx)Database server(MySQL)DrupalWeb BrowserPHP interpreterPHP files

Page is requested

Dynamic web page

Drupal

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Drupal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) and content management framework (CMF) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.

It is used as a back-end system for at least 1.5% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites including whitehouse.gov and data.gov.uk.

It is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration.

Source: Wikipedia

Other open source CMS

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Google Trends

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Drupal installation (1)

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Requirements:Web server (Apache)

Database (MySQL) - what is needed is the database name, user name and password

Drupal core: http://drupal.org/project/drupal - unzip the files to a directory on the server.

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Use only stable releases on production servers

Older versions

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Drupal installation page.

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Create directory files in sites/default

Copy sites/default/default.settings.php to sites/default/settings.php

Change file settings.php and directory files permissions so that it is writable by the web server (Linux command: chmod 777 files settings.php)

Click: try again

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Database connection parameters.

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Database advanced options

Database host change if the database server is on another computer.

Change if database serveruse non standard port

Change if you haveanother Drupal installationIn this database. We do not recommend sharing a database between Multiple Drupal installations

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Site configuration

Administrator name. We recommend using the name admin

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Site configuration

For security reasons should be enabled

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Drupal installation complete

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Drupal after installation

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Practice:Do the installation again. Remove tables from the database (use PHPMyAdmin) and delete the files from server.

Drupal files and directories (1)

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Drupal directories structure

Drupal files and directories (2)

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includes

modules core modules

profiles installation profiles

scripts

sites in this directory you can put additional modules and themesallmodulescontrib modules downloaded from www.drupal.org

custom_project custom modules dedicated for this project

custom_universal custom universal modules

developer developer modules, don't needed on production server

themes

themes core themes

cron.php - file is used to run periodic tasks such as indexing data to search and calculation of statistics

index.php main file

install.php installation file

update.php run this file after update modules or Drupal core

Administration page

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Modules

Blocks

Content

Site information

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Name displayed in page header

These fields are displayed in different places, depending on used theme

Footer messages: for example: contact information

Modules page

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Page: admin/build/modules

Package name

Status (enabled or disabled)

Module name

Module version

Module description

Depedencies

Installing a new module (1)

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Installing module Administration menu

Go to http://drupal.org/project/admin_menu

Download recommended version for Drupal 6.x

Extract files into sites/all/modules/contrib

Go to page admin/build/modules

Enable module

New module on module list page

Installing a new module (2)

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Administration menu

Confirmation message

Module status

Practice

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Download and install module Module Filter

TIP: You can use the site www.drupalmodules.com to find the module

Module page

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If you had problem with module try to search solutions on module page

Try module without installation

Find similar modules

Content

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What is a NODE?A node is a piece of content. Drupal assigns each piece of content an ID number called a node ID (nid).

Each node has a title and body. Administrator can view a list of nodes by title.

Contents are divided into types (node types). Default node types: page and story

Create first node (1)

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Go to page: node/add

Create new Story node

Split button split content into two parts: Teaser and Body

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Node publishing options

Published: each node have status published or unpublished. You don't need to delete node if you don't want to publish it on website

Promoted to front page

Sticky

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Node view

Date and author

Content (body)

Comment link

Node ID (nid) in URL

Edit link

Practice

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Create 5 Story nodesTest node 1 (published, promoted to front page, sticky)

Test node 2 (published, promoted to front page, sticky)

Test node 3 (published, promoted to front page)

Default front page

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Display all nodes with attrubute: published on front page

Sorting by:Sticky

Publish date

Sticky nodes

Content management page

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Page: admin/content/node

Filter options

Actions

Status

Edit link

Page vs Story

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Page and Story default attributes

New content type (1)

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Page: admin/content/types

Create new content type link

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Page: admin/content/types/add

Displayed name

Type: identificator in database

Content type description

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Title field label

Body field label

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Note:Users with the administer nodes permission will be able to override these options.

Create new version on every edit user can restore older version of node.

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Comments disabled

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New conent type - Car

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Page: node/add/car

Labels

Summary

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What you should know after this stage?Installing

Create new content

Edit and delete content

Create new content type

Blocks (1)

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Block is information that can be inserted in a region (left or right column, header, footer, under content number of regions depends on theme)

Deafult blocks:Menu (navigation, primary links, secondary links)

Users online

Blocks (2)

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Blocks (3)

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Page: admin/build/block

Region: right sidebar

Region: left sidebar

Blocks position settings

Create custom block

Create custom block (1)

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Page: admin/build/block/add

Block description. Used on page admin/build/block

Block title

Block content

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Page: admin/build/block/add

Allow users to control block visibility

Show block for specific roles

Show block on specific pages

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Page: admin/build/block

New block

Delete link

Configure link

Region

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Custom block in right sidebar

Input formats (1)

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Text transformationINPUTOUTPUT

Input formats (2)

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Filtered HTMLAllowed HTML tags:

DrupalDrupal

Input formats (3)

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Page: admin/settings/filters

Default format all roles may use this format

Configure options

Create new format

Input formats (4)

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Page: admin/settings/filters/1/configure

Change allowed HTML tags

Filter modules

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Latex filter: http://drupal.org/project/latex_filter

Video filter: http://drupal.org/project/video_filter

BB Code: http://drupal.org/project/bbcode

Smiles (emoticons): http://drupal.org/project/smileys

PEAR Wiki Filter: http://drupal.org/project/pearwiki_filter

More at http://drupalmodules.com/

Menus

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Page: admin/build/menu

Create new menu

Drupal default menus

Add node to menu (1)

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Page: node/*/edit

Menu settings

Add node to menu (2)

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Link in menu Primary links

Primary links management

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Edit and delete links

Change order drag and drop

Save configuration after change order

Add new item

Edit menu description

Page: admin/build/menu-customize/primary-links

Summary

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Content management

Blocks management

Menu management

Practice create this site

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Pages in menu

Blocks

News on front page

Title

Themes

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Page: admin/build/themes

Enabled theme configuration

All themes configuration

Default theme

Enabled theme

Themes configuration

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Page: admin/build/themes/settings

Global settings or selected theme settings

Configuration options

Garland theme configuration

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Page:admin/build/themes/settings/garland

Some themes has special settings, like color scheme in Garland

Installing new theme

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Go to http://drupal.org/project/corolla and download theme for Drupal 6.x

Extract files into sites/all/themes

Go to admin/build/themes and set theme Corolla as default

New theme

New theme - Corolla

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Corolla blocks settings

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Block settings for each enabled theme

New region names other than in Garland

Corolla new blocks settings

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Practice

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Go to http://drupal.org/project/Themes

Chose any theme and download it

Install new theme

Change some theme settings and blocks settings

Administration theme

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Drupal allow to set different theme for administration pages

Go to http://drupal.org/project/rootcandy, download and extract theme into sites/all/themes

Go to admin/settings/admin and set administration theme to RootCandy (Dark)

Administration themes

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Other administration themes:http://drupal.org/project/seven

http://drupal.org/project/rubik

http://drupal.org/project/polpo

http://drupal.org/project/berylizer

http://drupal.org/project/fruity

http://drupal.org/project/nerdalistic

http://drupal.org/project/strix

Administration module (alternative to Administration menu): http://drupal.org/project/admin

Summary

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Content management

Blocks management

Menu management

Theme management

Now you can create your own web page :)

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Thank you for your attention

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