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Drupal. Content Management System Mallikarjuna Pinjala CIS 764, Nov. 2008 - 1-. CMS?. Application to manage public content. Identify users and roles. Manage multiple versions of content Capture content Constituent Interaction. History. Creators: Dries Buytaert and Hans Snijder

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  1. Drupal Content Management System Mallikarjuna Pinjala CIS 764, Nov. 2008 - 1-

  2. CMS? • Application to manage public content. • Identify users and roles. • Manage multiple versions of content • Capture content • Constituent Interaction

  3. History • Creators: Dries Buytaert and Hans Snijder • Small news site, builtin web board, drop.org. • In 2001, software behind drop.org released as “Drupal” (droo-puhl).

  4. Features • Open Source • Friendly URLs • Personalization • Modules • Search • Solid CMF • Database Independent

  5. Setup Download Drupal Rename the /drupal/sites/default folder Edit htaccess file. Create Database MySQL mysqladmin -u username -p create databasename createuser --pwprompt --encrypted --no-adduser --no-createdb username createdb --encoding=UNICODE --owner=username databasename Run automated Install Script

  6. Installation

  7. Basic CM • Page and Story Content Types • Content Addition • Edit/ Disable primary links • Menus • Alias • Set up category

  8. Components of Drupal Module system Based on the concept of “Hooks” Foo_bar (), Foo module name, bar hook name Database Abstraction Layer Inherits PHP’s PDO Performs queries by db_query () or db_query_range () Menu System Follows hierarchy defined by paths. Page request is registered as a menu item with a callback. Searches for the most complete match with a callback it can find

  9. Other Components… • Form Generation • File System • Search Interface

  10. Takeaways • Open-Source Software • Buggy • Frequent updates • Support Community • Simplicity • Minimize reliance on modules • Steer away from excessive and focus on the essential • Tracking System • Document versioning & modules (sources & versions) • Helps tie-in with overall web strate

  11. Sample Drupal Site

  12. References • Dries Buytaert, “Drupal” ( Open Source Content Management System), www.drupal.org, visited 11/04/2008 • “Drupal” ( Content Management System) , Wikipedia, 9 pp., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal, visited 11/04/2008

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