This document summarizes a presentation on using Drupal. It describes Drupal as a content management system and framework built around a supportive community. It outlines the basic steps for building a Drupal site, including installation, configuration, setting up content types, using views, and theming. It provides examples of setting up speaker and session content types and using views to generate listings. The presentation emphasizes that Drupal can be used to easily construct and manage a website through its modular architecture and administrative interface.

1. Using Drupal
OSCON 2009
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2. hi
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3. James Walker Addison Berry
“walkah” “add1sun”
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4. “walkah” “add1sun”
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6. What is Drupal?
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7. Drupal is...
• Content Management
System
• Content Management
Framework
• Community
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8. http://www.flickr.com/photos/larimdame/
Lego for building websites
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9. Building a Drupal Site
• Install
• Basic configuration (permissions, etc)
• Content types
• Views
• Theme
• Profit
• (ok, maybe some tweaking)
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10. Thinking Drupal
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14. Installation
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15. Requirements
• Linux (any OS will do, really)
• Apache (recommended, while others can
work)
• MySQL (or Postgres)
• PHP (just PHP)
http://drupal.org/requirements
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16. Basic settings
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17. Site Information
• Site name
• Email
• Footer message, etc.
• Default front page
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18. Menus
• Provide Navigation
• Entries added by modules
• Administrators can override
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20. Blocks
• Contained in regions
• Theme can define any number of regions
• Additional content: lists of links, additional
info, etc
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22. Taxonomy
• Used for categorizing content
• Multiple vocabularies
• Supports flat lists, hierarchies, and free
tagging “folksonomies”
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23. Content Types
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24. Content Types
• Multiple content types - created by admins
• Different workflows
• Different structure - via CCK
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25. Speaker
• Name (title)
• Bio (body)
• Company (field_organization)
• Photo (field_speaker_photo)
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27. Session
• Title (title)
• Description (body)
• Room (field_room)
• Session Type (field_session_type)
• Date (field_date)
• Speakers (field_speakers)
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29. Views
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30. Views
• Query builder - with a GUI
• Generates listings of stuff
• Provides multiple displays
• Highly extensible
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32. Theme
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33. Theme
• Controls the look and feel
• CSS, JS, Images and PHP files (on disk)
• Can override how anything looks
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34. Demo
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