Drupal Content Management System

1. Drupal
Kaushal Kishore
Sr. Software Engineer
OSSCube Pvt. Ltd.
kaushal@osscube.com
www.osscube.com

2. What is Drupal ?
● Drupal is an open source CMS, based on PHP and MySQL
● It has an extremely active developer community, with lots of
resources available
● It has become arguably the most popular open source CMS

3. Drupal Features
● Well-constructed
● Documented code
● Extensible
● Customizable Workflow
● Taxonomy (categorization)
● Multilingual Support
● Image Resizing
● Multi-site/Special Use

4. Drupal is Powerful and Robust
● Drupal is built to run using the latest technologies that it
optimizes for speed (Caching)
● Thousands of modules allow for modular additions to the
platform including:
– Ecommerce
– Multimedia
– Comments
– Dynamic User Groups
– And many, many, many, more
● Highly scalable

5. Technology of Drupal
Drupal runs on a “LAMP” platform:
● L = Linux operating system(but it can also run on Windows,
Mac)
● A = Apache web server (but it can also run on other web
servers; not so well on Microsoft IIS as on Apache)
● M = MySQL database (but it can also run on PostgreSQL,
SQLite, and others)
● P = PHP scripting language (no choices there!)

6. Drupal Terminology
Module
● Add-on code that adds functionality to Drupal
● Can be core (comes with Drupal), contributed (download and install separately), or
custom (written specifically for your site)
● Examples: Forum, Blog, Web Form
Theme
●
Set of PHP files, CSS files, and images that defines the layout and styles for your
site
●
Can be core, contributed, or custom
Path
●
Part of the URL of your site that follows the base URL for your site. For
example, in http://example.com/node/add, the path is “node/add”
User
●
Anyone who visits your site
●
Non-logged-in visitors are known as anonymous
● Users with accounts are assigned to roles that you can define, such as
Master Admin, Content Editor, Member
● Permissions are generally assigned by role

7. Drupal Terminology
Content Item (called “Node” prior to Drupal 7)
● A piece of content on your site, which could be displayed on its own page or
as part of another page (or both)
● Basic content items have a Title, Body, a unique ID number, and some meta-
data (creation time, last updated, author, etc.)
● Content types can have additional custom fields besides Title and Body, such
as location, event date, banner image, etc.
Taxonomy
● Categories, tags, or other classifications that can be applied to content on your
siteMenu
● List of links to pages on your site, generally used for navigation in headers,
sidebars, footers
Weight
● Number that defines the order of a list, such as of menu items. Larger numbers
“sink” to the bottom of the list.
Block
●
Text, links, images, etc. that can be placed in a region of your site’s theme (header, sidebar,
footer, etc.), and configured to display on one or more pages

8. Drupal Terminology
Drupal Core
● The base installation of Drupal, includes some modules, themes and other
add-ons
Roles
● How users are grouped by permissions. Allows posting of content.
Defaults are authenticated or anonymous.

9. Drupal Core Modules
And Many More..............

10. Drupal CMS Workflow

11. Drupal General Workflow

12. Drupal’s Directory Structure
Drupal’s core areas (DO NOT MODIFY!):
● includes
● misc
●
modules
● profiles
●
scripts
●
Themes
● (files such as index.php, .htaccess, install.php, update.php)
(you might need to modify .htaccess only)
Contributed and custom modules,
● sites/all
● modules
● themes
● Libraries
● Themes, and libraries to be shared by all sites
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13. Drupal As a MVC Framework

14. Drupal Usage

15. Question?

16. Thank You For Your Time
And Attention!
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Or drop an email to kaushal@osscube.com