posscon 2011 drupal workshop

Drupal Workshop

Presented by OS Solutions

About

Us

Company Roger Steven Casey Bryan

Inte

nded

Audie

nce Beginner Intermediate Advanced

Ove

rvie

w To cover as much Drupal as we can in 2

hours to meet all audience levels

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rg Navigation GIT Groups

Term

inolo

gy Modules Blocks Themes Taxonomy

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Requir

em

ent s Linux PHP

MySQL

Inst

alla

tion

Dir in Apache web dir Setup conf Hosts (local) MySQL settings.php / files

Adm

in

Inte

rface Default Admin Admin Menu

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sh

PHP Drop-in Command Line Quick Commands

Enablin

g

Module

s

Download, Extract, Enable

New D7 Paste URLDrush dl, en (den on

github)https://github.com/jacksi

nn/Moar-Drush-Commands

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ati

ng

Conte

nt Manual Devel Import

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ng N

ew

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nt

Types CCK CCK Extensions D7

CC

K F

ield

s Creating Ordering Displaying

Node

Refe

rence

CCK Field Type AJAX Field (easy, node

title -> nid) Relates nodes

Taxo

nom

y Semantic Web Similar Content Use across node types

Dis

pla

ying

Conte

nt Block Output Views Displays TPL Files

Blo

cks Chunks of information

Can drop in code

Vie

ws Query Generator Create pages, blocks,

feeds Live query results

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ws

UI Main interface Configuration Displays

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ws

Dis

pla

ys

Block Page Feed Attachment

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ws

Field

s Items to output ‘select’ clause Ordering, relationships

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ws

Filt

ers Main Filtering ‘where’ clause Can expose filters

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ws

Sort Sort query output ‘order by’ clause Multiple options

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ws

Arg

um

ents Like filters Limit output based on

node information, relationships

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ws

Rela

tionsh

ip s

Used to tie information

/ nodes together ‘join’ clause Use with fields and filters

Use

rs User 1 User 0 Management

Role

s Logically group users Share permissions User may have

multiple roles

Perm

issi

ons

What users may and

may not view or modify Setup by role Users with multiple

roles get the most liberal (‘or’ logic)

Rule

s /

Trig

gers

Execute actions on event Generate emails

Create new content Flagged content

Flags

Allow users to mark nodes (like, report)

Use with triggered rules By user or global

Oth

er

Com

mon

Module

s Drupal relies on contrib modules to increase robustness

Modules on drupal.org

are GPLv2 Licensed

Conte

xt

Logically display items

based on conditions Bundle regional

information to be used

across many node types

Featu

res

Store logically grouped

items in code Helps with versioning /

multiple developers Can deploy to any site

Drush feature-update

(fu)

Nodequeue

Order nodes Useful with sliders, promoting nodes, ad

management Add to queue on node

page (easy)

Path

auto

Generate URLs for content based on information about the

node or static May use tokens

Mult

isit

e

Traditional drop in new

sites in sites/ dir Aegir GUI management of site deployment

List

of

Module

s http://drupal.org/proje

ct/modules Good ordering options

Cach

ing CSS / JS Block Views Squid (external)

Product

ion

Deplo

yment Turn off UI elements Caching Database direction

Use features

Managin

g

Deplo

yment s

Core updates (backup!) Drush pm-update (up)

Versioning Only pull from prod DB

never push to

Module

D

eve

lopm

en t Structure Hooks API

Submission Process

Them

e

Deve

lopm

en t Structure .info .tpl.php files template.php

Data

base

M

anagem

en t Features Export DB Dump Drush

Conta

ct

OS Solutions http://ossolutions.org 888.275.4893 steven@ossolutions.or

g roger@ossolutions.org

Addit

ional

Reso

urc

es

drupal.org api.drupal.org