This document summarizes a presentation by Kevin Reynen titled "CiviCRM for Developers, Designers, and Site Builders" given at DrupalCamp Colorado. It discusses Kevin's background and experience with CiviCRM and Drupal. It provides an overview of Drupal modules that integrate with CiviCRM like Webform, Groups, and Events. It also covers how CiviCRM uses the Smarty template engine differently than Drupal's PHPTemplate engine. The presentation compares using Drupal, Salesforce, or RedHen distributions with CiviCRM and discusses challenges of major upgrades. It demonstrates CiviCRM integrated with both Drupal and WordPress.

1. CiviCRM for Developers, Designers, and
Site Builder
DrupalCamp Colorado – 6/30

2. Kevin Reynen
● @kreynen on Drupal.org, CiviCRM.org, Twitter

3. Kevin Reynen
● @kreynen on Drupal.org, CiviCRM.org, Twitter
● google.com/search?q=kevin+drupal+civicrm

4. Kevin Reynen
● @kreynen on Drupal.org, CiviCRM.org, Twitter
● google.com/search?q=kevin+drupal+civicrm
● google.com/search?q=beardcast

5. DrupalCamp Austin

6. BeardcastsBeardcasts

7. A Little Help Hosting

8. A Little Help Hosting

9. A Little Help Hosting

10. A Little Help Hosting

11. A Little Help Hosting
A LOT of Help Hosting

13. February 2007
December 2009
March 2012

15. 8.9MB
● TinyMCE
● CKEditor
● DOMPDF
● IDS
● JQuery
● JQuery UI
● Jstree
By Removing These Libraries...

16. Why?

19. Don't Hack Core

20. Don't Hack
Distribution

21. Override It

22. modules
- book
- pole
- block
- color
- contact
profiles
- standard
- civicrm_starter
- modules
- civicrm
- contrib
- views
- ctools
- captcha
- features

23. modules
- book
- pole
- block
- color
- contact
profiles
- standard
- civicrm_starter
sites
- all
- modules
- contrib
- views
- themes

24. modules
- book
- pole
- block
- color
- contact
profiles
- standard
- civicrm_starter
sites
- all
- modules
- contrib
- views
- themes

26. COMPATIBLE Update Alterts

27. Process of updating Drupal
and CiviCRM the same...

28. Unless you use Pantheon

30. ● CiviCRM Webform
● CiviCRM Group and Membership Sync
● CiviCRM Multiday Event
Drupal Modules that Make
Life w/ CiviCRM Easier

31. Synchronize Data Between
the Systems

32. ● CiviCRM Cron (CiviCRM Scheduled Jobs)
● Views
● Rules
● Features CiviCRM
Drupal Modules that Make
Life w/ CiviCRM Easier

33. Module Demos

34. ● Extended... with Extensions
● Hooks and tpls to override
● CiviCRM uses Drupal Coding Style
Ways CiviCRM is Similar

35. ● Extended... with Extensions
● Hooks and tpls to override
● CiviCRM uses Drupal Coding Style
Ways CiviCRM is Similar

38. ● Self contained (same code works with
WordPress)
● Bigger than Drupal
● More Functionality “Out of the Box”
● Must configure location of Extensions and
Custom theme... not automatically detected
Ways CiviCRM is Different

39. ● Inline editing
● Upgrades vs. Migrations
● More Security
Force HTTPS, IDS, Core Payment Gateways
● Make It Happens (QuickBook Integration)
● Workflows and relations that make sense to
people managing Contacts/Clients/Constituents
● Wall separating data from display
Why Different can be Better

40. Smarty Template Engine

41. Smarty Syntax is different
that PHPTemplate…
but so is Twig

42. Smarty Template Engine
Data → → Display

43. Smarty Template Engine
<?php print $foo ?>
{$foo}

44. Smarty Template Engine
<?php print $foo['bar'] ?>
{$foo.bar}

45. Smarty Template Engine
{foreach $foo as $bar}
...
{/foreach}

46. &smartyDebug=1
is your devel

47. Smarty Demo

48. Starter Kit vs. Product
Distributions

49. Drupal + CiviCRM =
Pros: Most Features,
Integration and
Customization Possible...
Non-profit workflows out of
the box
Cons: Not 100% Drupal,

50. Drupal + SaleForce =
Pros: Stable, lot's of
additional
SF apps
Cons: SaaS, lock in, cost,
$$ focus

51. Drupal + RedHen =Pros: A lot of Integration
and Customization
Possible
Cons: $$$ focus,
upgrades, documentation,

52. *Major Upgrades to
Distributions are Hard

53. Open Atrium in D6?

54. Drupal Commerce 1.x → 2.x?

55. Will D8's .yml
configuration
fix this?

56. CiviCRM Often
Introduces new
Features BEFORE
Drupal

57. WordPress + CiviCRM

58. WordPress Demo

59. Why choose just one?

60. D7 ← CiviCRM → WP
D6