1. Showcasing Drupal
The Web Content
Publishing System
Kayode Odeyemi
Technical Director, Opevel
DrupalCamp Lagos 2010

2. What is Drupal?
A open source platform for building;
• Web Applications
• Community web applications
• Social Networking Applications
• Transactional Applications

3. The Drupal Community
• Over 600, 000 users
• More than 4000 modules and still counting
• Drupal is used to power more than 7 million websites and still
counting.
• Fantastic support both at theming and module level

4. The Drupal Adoption
• Drupal is used to power more than 7 million websites and still
counting
• Can be used for social networking websites, blogs, corporate
websites, intranet, forums and community websites etc.
• Robust template engine for dynamic page generation based on
menu hook.
• Supports Faceted search through Apache Solr.
• Content tagging using Taxonomy
• It is SEF by default

5. The Drupal Adoption
• Supports cloud technology using Aegir
• Can be used for a full blown intranet using Open Atrium Drupal
distribution.
• Drupal is beyond a CMS. It’s a platform for robust web application
• Drupal can be used for social network websites such as blogs,
forums
• Powerful caching mechanism which makes your website load more
than 60% faster
• Supports HTML 5

6. The Drupal Adoption
• Has Support for Ajax and Jquery
• Drupal can be integrated with platforms such as Java,
.NET, Actionscript, Flex et cetera, using the services
module.
• Drupal has support for Iphone and Android mobile
phones.
• Drupal supports Oracle and Postgre Databases
• Drupal can run on IIS web server

7. Drupal Architecture
Themes
DB
JavaScript/AJAX
Theme Engine
Drupal Core
Hook
Modules

8. Drupal Architecture
• Built with PHP
• Runs on Apache and Nginx Servers
• Powered by the fast and highly flexible Mysql
database
• Supports Oracle database
• Supports Postgre Database

9. Drupal Theme Architecture
Themes
Theme Engine
Drupal Core
Hook
Modules

10. Drupal Theming System
• That is, creating front-end designs for Drupal
• Supports up to 3 template engines:
– PHPTemplate (default)
– PHP Smarty template engine
– Xtemplate language
• Drupal powered websites can be enhanced by
leveraging CSS and Javascript / Jquery.

11. Important Contrib modules: CCK
• CCK is a Content Creation Kit
• Create new content types of your choice to store
specific information. For example, an Employees
content type for storing employees only related
information.
• Create online forms using simple point and click
approach. No codes required.
• Supports all forms of field data types such as text,
select list, autocomplete fields, Number fields,
fieldsets, date fields etc.

12. Important Contrib modules: Views:
• Views makes it possible to retrieve stored
content (Nodes) without writing SQL.
• Filter results by multiple criteria such as Node,
taxonomy, CCK Fields, profile et cetera.
• Expose CCK fields for user interaction.

13. Views: Multiple Display
• Display content as a Page
• Display content in a Block
• Display content as an Attachment
• Display content as a Feed
• Embed content into another content
• Create complex page structures using Panels

14. Extending Drupal – Building custom modules
• Relies heavily on Drupal Hooks or API
• Automatically handles HTML generation through
the theme() function.
– Theme(‘item-list’) : Generate ordered and unordered
lists
– Theme(‘table’): Generates HTML tables with cols and
rows as associative arrays
– Theme(‘pager’): Paginate Drupal nodes
• Supports both HTML and dynamic Form creation
using FAPI (Form API).

15. Drupal Distros
• Standard Drupal – Core distribution
• Acquia Drupal – Highly optimized Drupal with Acquia Search
• Drupal Commons – Drupal distro for community websites such as
Forums and social networks.
• Pressflow – Drupal Distribution Optimizer
• Open Atrium – Drupal powered Intranet
• OpenPublish – Drupal distro for online news publishing
• ManagingNews – Drupal powered Feed Reader
• Ubercart – Drupal distro for building transactional applications

16. Drupal Integrations
• Apache Solr Search Integration
• PHP/Java Bridge Integration
• Google Apps Integration through ZendGData API
• Facebook through Facebook Social
• Google OAUTH – The Federated API
• Twitter
• Google Search
• Google AJAX API
• Alfresco – Open Source Enterprise Intranet Software
• CMIS – Content Management Interoperability System

17. Drupal Performance
• Powerful Caching System
• Dynamic Page template engine
• Improve performance by 50% using Boost
module
• Create more than 100 website in a single
Drupal installation.

18. Who is using Drupal?
… and more

19. CONTACT OPEVEL
• For more information, please visit
– www.opevel.com
• Contact us
– info@opevel.com, support@opevel.com
• Socialize with us on Facebook and Twitter
– http://www.facebook.com/pages/Opevel/341324709251?ref=mf
– http://twitter.com/opevel