An Introduction to Drupal

by Jared McFarland

What is Drupal?

CMS

• Content Management System

• A way for non-developers and non-programmers to manage content

• Control panels instead of code

Admin Controls

Open Source

• 800 Core contributors

• 5 Branch Maintainers

• 1 Core Commiter

Under the hood

Stack

• Linux (BSD, Mac OS, Windows, Solaris)

• Apache (lighttpd, IIS)

• MySQL (PostgresSQL, SQL Server, Oracle)

• PHP

Core

Modules

Themes

• Multiple template engines available (PHPTemplate)

• Total customization

Drupal

Examples

Bookmans

Sony Music Artists

New York Observer

Resources

Websites

• Drupal

• drupal.org

• Tucson and Southern Arizona DUG

• groups.drupal.org/tucson-and-southern-arizona

• TDAC

• http://tucsondigitalarts.com/groups/drupal-users

Books

• Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition, John K VanDyk

Other

• IRC

• irc.freenode.net #drupal

• Commercial Support

• Acquia -- acquia.com

Me!• Email

• jaredm@bookmans.com

• Chat

• GTalk: jared.online

• Other

• jared-mcfarland.com

• Twitter

• jaredmcfarland

Questions?