Getting comfortable with Drupal

Mayank Kumar

10 Nov 2009

IIT Delhi

What we Know

• What and why a CMS• How Drupal works• Drupal Installation• Creating a Static Site using drupal• Installing custom theme• Drupal Core modules – Contact, Search and

Upload• Installing custom modules (HW)

Blogging using Drupal

• Editing the Story Content type.• Create a blog post

– Need of a Web based editor -> FCKEditor– Need of automatic path setting. ->Pathauto, Token– Need a page containing all blog posts summary ->

Views

Configuring the Path - Pathauto

Creating a new view - blog

Adding recent Comment

Adding Achieve

Blogging features Covered

• Tagging• Category• Blog page showing latest post summary• RSS feeds• Blocks – Recent Comments• Blocks – Tag cloud• Blocks – Archive • Social Bookmarking

TaxonomyTaxonomy

ViewsViews

Find Out?Find Out?

Getting deeper into CCK

What’s next ???

• Multimedia – Audio, video, photo-gallery • Theming and CSS – Customizing the look and

feel• Social Networking– The organic group• Getting your hands dirty – PHP coding for

modules

Books to refer – General

Drupal Theming

Inside Drupal - PHP