Introduction to Drupal.

1. Drupal
Isriya Paireepairit
markpeak at gmail dot com
Thailand Open Source Festival #7
Bangkok Convention Center
2 August 2007

2. me
Webmaster of
Open Source Evangelist
Technology Columnist
User

3. What is
Drupal

4. Drupal is
• full-featured CMS
(Content Management System)
• many claim: CMF
(Content Management Framework)

5. What can it do?
• Community Web Site
• Weblog
• Forums
• Social Network Site
• Wiki/Knowledge Base
• Business Web Application

6. System
Requirement
• PHP
• Apache/IIS
• AppServ is recommended for Windows
• Lighttpd works as well
• MySQL/PostgreSQL
• Oracle support is coming
• IBM is working on DB2 support

7. History
& Status

8. Drupal History
• Started in 1999 by Dries Buytaert (Belgium)
• Current version is 5.1
• Roadmap
• Drupal 6.0 - 2007
• Drupal 7.0 - 2008
• Open Source - GPLv2

9. Naming
{Dutch}
druppel drop
means
{English}
pronounces
Drupal
{English}

10. Druplicon

11. Druplicon Cookie Source: http://buytaert.net/happy-sixth-birthday-drupal

12. Project Status
• 600+ developers for Core
• 800+ developers for Contributution
• 600+ modules
• 250+ themes
• 40 languages localization (including Thai)
source: knaddison.com/book/export/s5/475

13. Download Statistics
source: buytaert.net

14. Drupal Books
source: drupal.org/books

15. Events and Conferences

16. Why
Choose
Drupal?

17. Pros
• Most basic CMS features are included
• Highly Customizable
• Plenty of Modules
• Good Architecture and API
• Good Documentation
• Performance
• Good Community

18. Drupal vs Joomla
source: buytaert.net

19. Cons
• Learning Curve
• PHP knowledge needed
• few Themes
• Lack of Commercial Support (in Thailand)
• Community support available at Codenone.com

20. Drupal Learning Curve
source: buytaert.net

21. Features
• Blog, Forum included
• Searching built-in
• RSS support
• Multi-language
• Statistics, Tracking, Logging, Reporting
• Caching included
source: drupal.org/features

22. (Killer) Features
• Installer with Profiles
• Taxonomy/Category/Tag
• Friendly URLs (Optimized for SEO!!)
• Theme with Color-changable
source: drupal.org/features

23. Comparison Matrix
source: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-osource1/#N10245

24. Case
Study
Note: All images in this section are from buytaert.net

25. MTV

26. Warner Bros.

27. FOX

28. Forbes

29. PlayStation

30. Ubuntu

31. Hillary Clinton

32. Green Peace

33. and...

34. Playboy Germany

35. Installation
Demo

36. Architecture

37. source: Drupal Booklet

38. Contribution
Modules
Core (Optional)
Core (Required)

39. Core (Requires)
• Block - box display
• Filter - input format
• Node - content
• System - admin, theming, ...
• User
• Watchdog - logging

40. Core (Optional)
• Blog • Poll
• Comment • Profile (User page)
• Forum • Search
• Menu • Statistics
• Locale (translation) • Taxonomy (Tag)
• Path (URL alias) • Upload

41. Block Menu Theme Presentation
Taxonomy
Node
Content
User Type
Comment
Role Content
User Module
System
Locale
System

42. Modules

43. Core
• Path
• Taxonomy

44. Contributions
• Pathauto
• Tagadelic
• CCK
• Views
• Workflow
• Actions
• Schedule

45. More
Resources

46. Download
• Drupal.org
• Main Program
• Modules
• Themes
• Translations

47. Documentation
• Drupal.org
• Installation
• Manual
• Example Case
• Code Snippet

48. Support
• No commercial-support in Thailand
• Drupal.org
• Forum
• Bug Report
• Drupal Groups
• Codenone.com (Drupal User Groups)
• Forum

49. Druplicon Cake Source: http://buytaert.net/happy-fifth-birthday-drupal