drupal 7 unleashed

Drupal 7The power is with You

Mukesh Agarwal

What to expect withDrupal 7?

Usability

• Administration UI becomes simpler

• Drag and drop makes life easier for site builders and content editors

• Default text format on a per-role basis

Flexible Content

• Custom fields can now be used across content types, users, comments, terms..

• Data can be stored in SQL, NoSQL, or remote storage

Extended DB Support

• Added in-built support for SQLite

• Support for SQL Server, Oracle via modules

• Support for master/slave replication, transactions,etc

Better Theming Support

• Render API allows better control over page elements

• RDF module supports semantic web markup

Security

• Secure implementation of scheduling cron

• Modules can be updated from web

• More secure password and login system

Performance

• Better CSS and JS optimization

• Caching system more pluggable – enable caching HTTP headers, improve compatibility with reverse proxies and CDNs

Improved File Handling

• Files are now Drupal objects with functions & hooks

• PHP stream wrappers used to support public, private and remote storage

• In built file upload support

Distribution Support

Installation profiles to aid distributing custom Drupal product

Extended Community

Celebrating the release party, a large number of developers have turned up for active participation in the community

Drupal 7 Released

Parties around the world

Branding a bonanza

Community strengthened

Thank You!Happy Drupaling!! :-)

Mukesh Agarwal