This document provides an overview of the open source content management system (CMS) Drupal. It discusses that Drupal is a full-featured CMS that is community supported and powers over 700,000 sites. It can be customized through modules and themes with PHP knowledge. The document also provides brief histories of Drupal and its current versions, examples of how it can be used, and important Drupal terminology.

1. Drupal
Abhishek Nagar

2. Who am I ?
Abhishek Nagar
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Student SICSR
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Blogger
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Drupaller (1 year)
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Open Source Enthusiast
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Where you can find me
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IRC Nick : Nagar
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Channels: #indlinux, ##linux-india, #firefox, #drupal
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http://abhisheknagar.com
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3. Drupal ??
Full Featured CMS
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May claim CMF
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Community supported
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Powering 7,00,000+ sites in 2008
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Customization requires PHP knowledge
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Drupal Core
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Expended through Modules
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4. Why Drupal?
Why not build a solution from scratch?
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Go for it.
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Why not use commercial products?
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Bigger Question
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Why not any other open-source solution?
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Try opensourcecms.com
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5. History & Status
Started in 1999 by Dries (Belgium)
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http://twitter.com/dries
Current Versions : 5.15 & 6.9
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Roadmap
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Drupal 7.0 under development
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2000 + contributed modules
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500 + themes
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Localization teams
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6. What can it do ?
Community Website
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Weblog
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Forums
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Social Network Sites
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Knowledge Base
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Business Web Apps
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And many more
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7. Requirements
PHP
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Apache / IIS
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MySQL /PostgreSQL
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8. Some big names
Tim Berners-Lee Weblog
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Spread Firefox
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Mtv
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New York Observer
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IloveBolly
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Ubuntu
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GNUnify
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OSI
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9. Using Drupal OREILLY

10. Drupal Terminology
Nodes
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The fundamental building block of the website
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Blocks
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Items placed in a region.
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Comments
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Lightweight item attached to a node.
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11. Modules & Themes
Drupal Core
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The base installation of Drupal, includes some
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modules, themes and other add-ons
Modules
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Files that add functionality to Drupal
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Themes
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Designs that give the sites a certain look.
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Modules give themes control of how things look.

12. Users
First user created is the website
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administrator, and this user has complete
control over the system.
Other users can be created by administrator
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or by online registration (with or without admin
approval)
Users can belong to one or more roles.
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Therefore, once users are created in the
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system and assigned a role, they have
permission to various parts of the framework,
including content creation.

13. Drupal Tour

18. Live Web Creation
Without single line of Code

19. Drupal Books

20. Modules you cant live without
Tiny MCE Editor
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Feedback
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Printer Friendly Pages
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Simple News
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Views
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CCK
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CCK + Views = Custom Module
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21. Review
Users are grouped by Roles
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CORE functions enhanced by Modules
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Content Nodes are placed in Blocks
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Themes give sites and Modules their look
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Categories created through Taxonomy
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Profiles aid data manipulation and presentation
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22. Thanks
Question & Answers
abhishek@kashipur.in