an introduction to drupal
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A short introduction to answer the question, "What is Drupal?"TRANSCRIPT
An Introduction to Drupal
by Jared McFarland
What is Drupal?
CMS
• Content Management System
• A way for non-developers and non-programmers to manage content
• Control panels instead of code
Admin Controls
Open Source
• 800 Core contributors
• 5 Branch Maintainers
• 1 Core Commiter
Under the hood
Stack
• Linux (BSD, Mac OS, Windows, Solaris)
• Apache (lighttpd, IIS)
• MySQL (PostgresSQL, SQL Server, Oracle)
• PHP
Core
Modules
Themes
• Multiple template engines available (PHPTemplate)
• Total customization
Drupal
Examples
Bookmans
Sony Music Artists
New York Observer
Resources
Websites
• Drupal
• drupal.org
• Tucson and Southern Arizona DUG
• groups.drupal.org/tucson-and-southern-arizona
• TDAC
• http://tucsondigitalarts.com/groups/drupal-users
Books
• Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition, John K VanDyk
Other
• IRC
• irc.freenode.net #drupal
• Commercial Support
• Acquia -- acquia.com
Me!• Email
• Chat
• GTalk: jared.online
• Other
• jared-mcfarland.com
• jaredmcfarland
Questions?