Web Applications Made Easy by S ren Houen Show of hands Who has used Drupal Background Show o Working with Drupal for almost a year Completed seven enterprise strength CMS projects New one in the tubes Come from a PHP background with and without Frameworks Symfony Zend CakePHP Apart of course from having a CS bachelor ArLcle in IEEE ICSC 2009 last year hRp www computer org portal web csdl doi 10 1109 ICSC 2009 79 Show o 999 Credits Flash Gamesite 999credits com My Drupal sites These Games Rock Flash Gamesite My Drupal sites StarcraZ 2 Observer Community hub My Drupal sites Houen net My Company website My Drupal sites Basico dk Company website My Drupal sites Spoing dk Company website My Drupal sites Advis dk Company website Quick look Open source framework GPL Started by Dries Buytaert in 2000 Began as forum board for 8 students More than 275 000 current installaLons hRp drupal org project usage 02 09 10 Is used for high volume business criLcal sites For example large newspapers pol dk berlingske dk Purpose More than a framework Complete full featured point and click WYSIWYG CMS Fast to build Easy to extend Robust Fast Features MulL plaborm Apache IIS Linux BSD Solaris Windows Mac Database independent MySQL PostgreSQL standard Can be extended to any relaLonal database MulL language Services No code needed basic funcLonality Point and click WYSIWYG administraLon Full user administraLon Signup with email validaLon Customizable role based permission system Content creaLon ediLng Deep content searching Customizable caching Input saniLzaLon Services SEO user friendly URL s www example com this url rocks Permalinks www example com node 143 Version control Enable edit mess up roll back blame somebody StaLsLcs What content who IP users from where referrers to where navigaLon on site Content syndicaLon RDF RSS Services Standard end product funcLonality Content types Pages Page Blog Story Wiki Book Main Concepts Model View Controller architecture Database Controller logic Theme system Cron script Cache search Ldy up etc Modules modules modules Extension by huge number of enterprise strength modules All purpose web framework Call stack BoRom up levels of conceptual layers NoLce low placement of modules POWERFUL Node Mother of all content Very basic informaLon Author CreaLon date Title Body Anything else is up to you or a module Modules We ll save those for later Blocks Flashback User permissions Users Roles Permission Equals Who can do what Access what See what Templates How content appears Same site di erent theme Examples 5 minute CMS WITH ONE HAND Views 5 minute CMS ONE HANDED Views The downside High maintenance Must be updated regularly to be secure hRp drupal org node 661600 Updates are Lme consuming unlike Wordpress 1 click updates My fervent prayer Improved in Drupal 7 No reselling without GPL ing Anyone got a business model for selling a good gamesite under the GPL 1 million nodes requires special handling Not really downside as so does most other frameworks and can be handled The upside EVERYTHING ELSE PRESENTED SkepLcal Take two CMS frameworks and call me in the morning The literature Don t call me read Good resources to learn drupal and the sources for these slides Drupal org documentaLon HUGE user base Living breathing frothing community Books Using Drupal O Reilly Drupal 6 Themes Learning Drupal 6 Module Development QuesLons
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