This document introduces Drupal, an open source content management framework. It discusses Drupal's history and community, how it can be used to build and manage websites, and how its modular architecture allows for extensibility. Key points include that Drupal was founded in 2001, powers around 2% of websites, and has a large global community. Its core handles common site functions while thousands of contributed modules add additional features.

1. Welcome to Drupal !
Hernâni Borges de Freitas

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About Drupal
• Founded in 2001 by Dries Buytaert. Drupal 8
released in Nov 2015.
• One of the most popular ways of building for the
web. And of the most popular PHP projects !
• Distributed under GPL License. One of the
biggest open source communities in the World.
• Powers at least 2% of the web. Significant
presence in high profile web sites.

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Examples of Drupal
http://topdrops.org/

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About me
• .PT
• 15y of PHP / 8y of Drupal
• Senior Tech Manager – Acquia EMEA
• Founded in 2007 by Drupal founder to support Drupal
adoption in enterprise clients (Hosting, Enterprise Support,
Consulting). ~ 800 employees in many regions of the globe.
• Hernani.pt
• Twitter.com/hernanibf

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Today
• Intro to Drupal
• Major features as a CMS (Content, Page
building, Configuration, Users &
Permissions, Multilingual, Webservices,
contributed modules).
• Major features as a framework (Drupal APIs,
Integrations)
• Community (Worldwide & PT)

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Why do people choose Drupal?
Come for the Code, Stay for the
Community
•Powerful core that handles most important
challenges in site building.
•Extensible via modules that can extend
application behavior and look and feel.
•Contributed modules available for many
features (80% done – 20% to be done rule).
•Large and passionate community.

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Webserver + PHPWebserver + PHP
Drupal docroot:
Drupal core (/core)
Other libraries (/vendor)
Contributed and custom modules (/modules)
Themes (/themes)
Drupal docroot:
Drupal core (/core)
Other libraries (/vendor)
Contributed and custom modules (/modules)
Themes (/themes)
Drupal Stack
Files ystem for static files (uploaded files, compressed css, js, etc..)Files ystem for static files (uploaded files, compressed css, js, etc..)
Database (Mysql flavours)
Or Others*
Database (Mysql flavours)
Or Others*

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In Drupal core
• Content structure and content edition
• Layout and display management (blocks + menu
+ views).
• Roles + Permissions + Users
• Configuration and state management
• URLs and routing
• Application logging
• APIs for many things (Routing, DB, Forms,
Session, Sanitization, Caching, Files).
• Default themes (html markup + css + js).

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Extending Drupal
• 35k Contributed modules to add to your site
(Workflow, Media, SEO, Calendars + Galleries,
Integrations, you name it – there’s a module for that).
• 2k Contributed themes that you can add and
extend
• You can create your custom modules to
change/add functionality
• You can create or extend your custom theme to
change how sites
• Drupal distributions - Sometimes you don’t need
to play lego: Lightning, DrupalCommerce,
OpenAtrium.

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Content management
Content structure via UI
•Entities: Easy to manage your content/data model
entities directly in the interface.
•Fields: Easy to create fields for your entities with
different available widgets: text, wysiwyg, files,
dates, links, relationships.
Content edition:
•Easy to input content for users without much
technical knowledge.
•Full abstraction of how data is being stored in the
database.

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Content management - extras
• Revisioning support for different entities
• In place editing
• Menus
• Blocks
• Taxonomy / Tagging
• Easy to add content workflow
• Easy to integrate content coming from 3rd
party sources.

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Display management
• Easy to create displays for information
created.
• Displays available out of the boxes: tables,
grids, lists, json.
• Easy to extend to slideshows, calendars,
galleries, any other format.
• Different options to manage layouts and
page components.
• Pages, blocks, REST endpoints.

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Configuration management
• Configuration defined via the interface can be
exported to configuration files in the code base
and therefore put under version control.

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User management
Part of core:
• User registration/management
• Roles
• Permissions
Contributed:
• Easy to integrate with external login
systems (SSO, LDAP, Social logins).

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More with Drupal
• Multilingual OOB
• Webservices support OOB
• Data export
• Migration plugins available
• Data import
• Powerful performance and caching options
• Media management
• Workflow management
• Layout management - rich page creation
• Search integration

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Drupal as a framework
UI
•Routing, Menus
•Forms, Form state,
Ajax
•Blocks
Data
•Entities, Fields
•Configuration, State
•DB queries, views
Other
•Plugins, Services,
Events
•Multilingual
•Render API
•Theming layer
•Caching

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A Drupal module structure
• Info file – mymodule.info.yml
• Module file - mymodule.module
• Hooks
• Routing - mymodule.routing.yml
• Match Urls and Callbacks
• Plugins dir - Classes that add new components
(blocks, displays, etc..)
• Src dir – PHP Classes that will be used by the
module
• Config dir – yml files with configuration that should
be installed
• Templates dir – twig files
• …

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A Drupal example module
Examples module
(Http://drupal.org/project/examples)
Pants module
(Http://drupal.org/project/pants)

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A Drupal theme
• Info file – mytheme.info.yml
• Regions, Libraries (CSS and JS to be
attached), Base theme
• Twig Template files – automatically
discoverable from name and location.
• Theme file – mytheme.theme - php
functions to override rendering behavior
• Css and JS and images and more..

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A Drupal theme example
• Bootstrap

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Proudly found elsewhere
https://packagist.org/packages/drupal/core

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Community
• Drupalcons (Every 6 months)
• North America
• Europe (Next September Dublin!)
• Other (Mumbai, Bogota, Sydney)
• Drupalcamps (Every year per country/region)
• Other specific Drupal events
• Drupal dev days (Milan), Frontend United,
Drupalaton
• Online - Drupal.org, irc, stackoverflow, github..

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Drupal Portugal – drupal.pt
• Events and activities since 2010
• Drupalcamp Lisbon 2011, Porto 2012
• Regular monthly meetups – Liberdade 229
• Drupal day Aveiro 2016
• http://drupalday2016.drupal-pt.org/
• Drupal.pt
• Groups.drupal.org/portugal

27. Questions?
hernani.pt