Developers, site builders, and themers who are already familiar with Drupal’s secret handshakes and special sauces may be reluctant to invest time learning how to accomplish similar tasks in CiviCRM, but there are some big advantages to using CiviCRM with Drupal over one of the Drupal native CRM projects or a commercial SaaS solution. This sessions will answer many of the How’s to making Drupal and CiviCRM work well together, but we’ll also get into the Why.

1. CiviCRM for Developers, Designers, and
Site Builder
DrupalCamp Austin – 6/23

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. BeardcastsBeardcasts

6. A Little Help Hosting

7. A Little Help Hosting

8. A Little Help Hosting

9. A Little Help Hosting

10. A Little Help Hosting
A LOT of Help Hosting

12. February 2007
December 2009
March 2012

14. 8.9MB
● TinyMCE
● CKEditor
● DOMPDF
● IDS
● JQuery
● JQuery UI
● Jstree
By Removing These Libraries...

15. Why?

18. Don't Hack Core

19. Don't Hack
Distribution

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

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

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

24. COMPATIBLE Update Alterts

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

26. Unless you use Pantheon

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

29. Synchronize Data Between
the Systems

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

31. Module Demos

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

33. ● Self contained (same code works with
WordPress)
● Bigger than Drupal
● More Functionality “Out of the Box”
● Must configure location of Extenstions and
Custom theme
Ways CiviCRM is Different

34. Smarty Template Engine

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

36. Smarty Template Engine
(WALL)

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

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

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

40. &smartyDebug=1
is your devel

41. Smarty Demo

42. Starter Kit vs. Product
Distributions

43. Drupal + CiviCRM =Pros: Most Features,
Integration and
Customization Possible
Cons: Not 100% Drupal,
Requires more CPU and

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

45. Drupal + RedHen =Pros: A lot of Integration
and Customization
Possible
Cons: Upgrades,
documentation,

46. *Major Upgrades to
Distributions are Hard

47. Open Atrium in D6?

48. Drupal Commerce 1.x → 2.x?

49. CiviCRM Often
Introduces new
Features BEFORE
Drupal

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

51. WordPress + CiviCRM

52. WordPress Demo

53. Why choose just one?

54. D7 ← CiviCRM → WP
D6