Drupal in 1 Hour

What, wherefore, and how.

#WIMPDrupal

Joshua Simmons, Co-founder of WIMP and CEO of Bluebird Interactive, Inc.

Drupalista since 2008. Follow me @joshsimmons

Definitions: What is Drupal?

• Content management framework

• Open-source

• Non-profit

• 3rd most popular CMS

• Pronounced "droo-puhl" (it's Dutch)

• Berkeley is ground zero

• Built in PHP

• SQL-friendly

• Nginx or IIS? No problem.*

Drupal: A march of the stars.

What is it good for?

• Communities

• Media organizations

• Advanced e-commerce

• Multi-site

• Applications

• Systems integrationWhen might it be overkill?

• Brochure websites

• Blogs

Key Concepts:

Entities, content types, and fields

• EntitiesUsers, nodes, taxonomy terms, products

• NodesPage, blog entry, event, page of a book or wiki

• Fieldso Core elemental fieldsText, textarea, dropdown, checkbox/radios, file

o Contributed fieldsNode, user, and taxonomy references; URLs; media;

locations; dates; and phone numbers

Key Concepts:

Themes

• Base themesZen, Omega, AdaptiveTheme, Zentropy

• Off the shelfCorolla, Sky, TouchPro, Danland,

Acquia Marina, Acquia Prosper

• Customizing themeso admin UI is full of goodies

color palettes

responsive breakpoints

o themename.info

o html.tpl.php, page.tpl.php, node--typle.tpl.php, block--block--#.tpl.php

• Organized into regionso blocks

Diagram of theme rendering process.

Key Concepts:

Blocks, regions, and views

• Blockso Types

Packaged with modules

Generated by views, menus

Custom blocks by you

o Placement and Visibility

Select a region

Pages by URL matching

Select user role(s)

• Views moduleis a gift from the gods

Slices'n'dices entities every way

imaginable: blog, calendar, gallery,

map, shopping cart, and beyond.

Diagram of basic page and the theme files

it's composed of.

Key Concepts:

Views, again.

• Not like MVC

• Pages, blocks, feedso Slideshows, calendars

o Lists, grids, and tables

o JSON?

• Overrides at every levelo Both GUI and PHP

o Fields, rows, containers, etc.

• Context sensitiveo Can accept arguments

Key Concepts:

Modules

• CoreBlog, Forum, Locale, Book, Comment, Contact, Color, Search, OpenID,

Clean URLs, RDF (great for SEO), Update Manager, Toolbar, Dashboard

• ContributedViews, Media, Metatags, Date, Feeds, Organic Groups,

References, Rules, Scheduler, Panels, XML sitemap, WYSIWYG, Google

Analytics, Schema.org, Boost, Backup and Migrate, Block Revisions,

Logintoboggan, Konami Code, Pathauto, Facebook Connect, Twitter,

MailChimp, Google Apps, Disqus

Where do pages come from?

Entities like nodes,

users, and taxonomy

terms, mostly. They

have pages auto-

generated for them.

Views and panels

can create pages,

too.

Anatomy:

Codeless Blog w/ Gallery

• base theme & theme

• modulesViews, Blog, Views Slideshow,

Views Slideshow Galleria, Date, WYSIWYG,

Entity, File Entity, Print, Token, Media, XML

sitemap

• content types & fieldsBasic

Page, Blog Entry, Gallery Image

• viewsBlog Listing, Monthly Blog Archive,

Gallery?

Anatomy:

WIMP website

• AdaptiveTheme & WIMP subtheme

• content types & fieldsBasic Page, Book Page,

Blog Entry, Events, Job Listings, Webform

• viewsevent listing page, upcoming event block, job

listing*, member listing

• modules and custom moduleProfile2,

Webforms, Commerce & Commerce Stripe, Subscription,

Scheduler, Field Collection, Rules, Feeds, Getlocations,

Disqus, Google Analytics, Twitter Pull, Meetup Event

Importer*, Autocomplete Deluxe, MailChimp, Media,

References, References Dialog, Schema.org, Superfish,

Views, WYSIWYG (with CKEditor)

Before Building a Site

• What content types and fields?

• How will the data get in? (Forms)

• How will the data get out? (Views)

• Who may create/view/delete data?

(Permissions)

• What additional functionality? (Modules)

• How can we make it pretty? (Theming)

Intro to Drupal 7 Architecture, pg 31

Key Concepts:

Distributions

Commerce Kickstart - e-commerce

Drupal Commons - community

OpenAtrium - intranet & team portal

Spark - Drupal 8 UX experiment in D7

COD - conferences

OpenAid - collaborative aid deployment tool

OpenOutreach - nonprofits & grassroots orgs

OpenDeals - Drupal, Groupon-style

OpenPublish - for newspapers & media

OpenPublic - for government

One Page CV - do I really need to explain?

Videola - IPTV platform (think: Hulu or Lynda)

It's Not All Rainbows & Unicorns

PRO

• each new version is rethought

• open-source

• security

• multi-user

• multi-site

• internationalization

• persistent references

• portable

• content first approach

• command line admina favorite

of database designers,

command line ninjas, security

nuts, integration specialists,

and people who love Legos

CON

• familiar, yet different

• learning curve

• learning curve... every version

• less out-of-the-box-y

• power hungry

• can easily pwn shared hosts

• lots o' files -- encumbers source

controlfrustrates front-end

coders, developers that dislike

PHP, MVC practitioners,

shared web hosting packages,

and minimalists

Resources

• Sonoma County Drupal User Group (&

SF)Monthly on the Tuesday before WIMP at

6pmwww.meetup.com/socodrupal &

www.facebook.com/groups/socodrupal

• 2012 BADCamp in Berkeley, November 1-

4many DrupalCamps, DrupalCons, and Drupal User Groups available

• Drupal.orgonline wiki, code repository, groups, and IRC channels

• Lullabotwww.lullabot.com

• Case studieswww.drupal.org/case-studies

• Acquia and Drupal GardensReally need a convincing argument? Drupal has a wiki page for that:

Elevator Pitches @ www.drupal.org/node/220314

Resources: Drupalistas in WIMP

• Bill Dornbush

• Dale Geist

• Debbie Smith

• Linda Philips Blue

• Scott Hildebrand

• Nick Topolos

• ... and yours truly ;-)

Drupal in 4 Hours

Joshua Simmons, Co-founder of WIMP and CEO of Bluebird Interactive.

Drupalista since 2008. Follow me @joshsimmons

Dive into Drupal and build something!

This Friday at 2pm! Bring a laptop.

Check out my blog, Skepti.ca!

Extra Resources

San Francisco Drupal Users Group

http://www.meetup.com/SFDUG-San-Francisco-Drupal-Users-group/

Theme Hook Reference (File Names)

http://drupal.org/node/1089656

Form API Reference

http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer!topics!forms_api_reference.html/7

Sampe Data Architecture (Content Types, Fields, and Taxonomies)

http://u.gob.lu/RWleqQ

Theme Rendering Process Diagram

http://john.albin.net/drupal/arrays-of-doom

Grok Drupal 7 Theming (Page Template File Diagram)

http://pingv.com/blog/grok-drupal-7-theming-update

Intro to Drupal 7 Architecture

http://www.ent.iastate.edu/it/Intro_to_Drupal_7_Architecture.pdf

BOOKS

PHP for Drupal Designers

Using Drupal

Extra Resources

How-To: Build a Slideshow with Views Slideshow (in this example, testimonials)

http://www.ostraining.com/blog/drupal/views-slideshow-in-drupal-7/

WSJ Article about NYSE's Use of Drupal

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2012/05/28/nyse-relies-on-open-source-for-growth/

Drupal System Requirements

http://drupal.org/requirements