Presentation to the Arizona State University's Drupal Users Group in March, 2009

1. ASU Drupal Users Group
DrupalCon DC ’09, ASU Drupal News, CAS, FeedAPI
March 26, 2009

2. DrupalCon DC ’09
✤ Video of (almost) every session
http://drupal.org/node/385952
✤ The State of Drupal
✤ Drupal 7
✤ Why I Hate Drupal
✤ Apache Solr
✤ Web service API integration

3. CAS
✤ Single Sign-on: http://www.jasig.org/cas
✤ Open source, originally created by Yale University
✤ Use it! Stop using Webauth for Drupal.

4. CAS Module Installation
✤ Install the module: http://drupal.org/project/cas
✤ Download PHP CAS (http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/0wvP) and put
into “CAS” folder inside module, i.e.
/path/to/modules/cas/CAS/CAS.php
✤ Create a “cas user” role
✤ Setup CAS in Drupal: admin/user/cas
✤ Server: weblogin.asu.edu, URI: /cas

5. FeedAPI
✤ http://drupal.org/project/feedapi
✤ Aggregate content to your site via feeds (RSS, Atom, RDF, etc.).
Basically, use other sites to create content on your site.
✤ Setting up a feed
✤ Common use cases / issues:
Elements to CCK fields: http://drupal.org/project/feedapi_mapper
Applying input filters: http://drupal.org/project/filterbynodetype