A Basic Tutorial on Drupal 7

1. Drupal 7
A Beginner's Tutorial
Ravi Yelluripati
ryelluripati@gmail.comryelluripati@gmail.com
in.linkedin.com/in/raviyelluripatiin.linkedin.com/in/raviyelluripati
https://drupal.orghttps://drupal.org
27 Sep 201327 Sep 2013

2. Assumptions
● A working knowledge of PHP
● Working knowledge of Ubuntu
● Knowledge of setting up of LAMP
● Basic knowledge of HTML5,CSS3, jQuery and
javascript

3. Installation
● System requirements
– Web Server: Apache, Nginx or MS- IIS
– Database: mysql, postgre, sqlite
– PHP 5.3.x
● Step 1: Download and extract Drupal
● Step 2: Create the database
● Step 3: Create the settings.php file
● Step 4: Run the installation script
● Step 5: Set up cron and Step 6: Configure
clean URLs Ref: https://drupal.org/documentation/install

4. Best place to learn Drupal
● Web: http://www.drupal.org
● Book: Pro Drupal 7 Development by Todd
Tomlinson

5. What is a Website?
● In short a website is “electronic content which
can be viewed, interacted and transacted with,
over the web”
● In general, a website possesses a footer area
with logo and facility to login, a menu bar, a
highlight (alert) area, easy access links usually
on the left and right side of the pages, main
content areacontent area in the center, a footer at a
minimum
● The content areacontent area is where most of the content
is shown

6. How to Build a Website?
● In the context of present tutorial, we need to
write some HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery (called
as client side programming) based scripts to
view the desired output
● We also need to do some PHP scripting (called
the server side programming) which supports
and delivers client side code (dynamic web
pages) besides managing the data in the
database

7. What is Drupal going to do for us?
● As you may have rightly guessed Drupal
manages our content – its a content
management system
● Using Drupal CMS makes it very easy to
develop highly complex websites
● Drupal is built using PHP; functionality can be
extended using PHP
● Drupal user community has built thousands of
useful web 'objects', if we may say, called as
modulesmodules which greatly complement our web
development effort

8. Drupal 7 – more info
● Drupal is highly modular
● Drupal has 23,787 Modules, 1840 Themes and
687 Distributions with 29,173 developers
working on it!
● Drupal uses Javascript extensively. In fact,
Drupal is set as a javascript object which has
four properties: settings, behaviors, themes andsettings, behaviors, themes and
localelocale (Ref: https://drupal.org/node/304258)(Ref: https://drupal.org/node/304258)

9. Drupal 7 – more info
● The following Guides are available on Drupal
website to get started
– Understanding Drupal
– Installation Guide
– Administration and Security Guide
– Structure Guide
– Site Building Guide
– Multilingual Guide
– Theming Guide
– Mobile Guide
…... and more

10. Drupal 7 – Understanding the Admin
Layout
● Lets see a live page to understand better ...

11. Drupal 7 – The Hello World!
● Hands On ...