1. Wilson Wingston Sharon
wingston.sharon@gmail.com

2. What now?
 manage and administer content in drupal.
 Menu and blocks to link to content.
 Forums creation and moderation.
 Taxonomy for advanced content organization.
 Use views to run optimized SQL queries.
 Use CCK to customize drupal.

3. Nodes
 All content on a Drupal website is stored and treated
as "nodes.“
 allows the flexibility of creating new types of content.
 to painlessly apply new features or changes to all
content
 The nodes module
 List, sort through, and manage all the content on your
site;
 set norms for how all posts are displayed
 List and configure the "content types" for your site, and
create new ones.

4.  Administer Nodes - Administer >>Content management >> Content
 Administer workflow - Administer >> Content management >>
Content types
 Administer misc - Administer >> Content management >> Post
settings
 Administer user access control - Administer >> User management >>
Access control.

5. Add pathatuo module
 In material/modules find
 pathauto-6.x-1.2.tar.gz
 token-6.x-1.12.tar.gz
 token_filter-6.x-1.0.tar.gz
 go to c:/wamp/www/mysite/sites/all
 Create a folder called modules. Copy these files into
it.
 Right click the tar file and click extract here.
 In browser, go to administer>site building>modules
 Enable pathatuo and all token modules.

6. Types of Content
 Core
 Page
 Story
 Book
 Blog
 Forum topic
 Poll
 3rd party
 CCK
 Image
 Webform

7.  List all content types on site
 Administer > Content management > Content types >
List
 All posts are instances of ONE content type.
 Permissions for different content types can be
controlled
 Administer > User management > Permissions

8. Creating Content
 Go to Content management > Create content >
 Select content type you want to create. [story]
 Give title and Enter your required content.
 Input format as required – full/filtered HTML/php
 Give a log entry if there are multiple editors.
 Enable/disable comments
 Give alt URL path
 Set published, promoted to front page
 Make at least 3 story items for your site

9. Administer content
 Administer >> content mgmt >> content
 Gives a list of all site content available
 Content is usually classified as node/x unless given
an alternate alias.
 Select content and select one of available tasks.
 Administer nodes permission required for this.

10. Comments moderation
 Administer >> content mgmt >> comments
 Allows you to see and edit all user comments.
 Block anonymous commenting. (in user permissions)
 Use a spam blocker like mollom

11. Content mgmt>>post settings
 Rebuilding permissions – cron does it automatically.
Manual control here.
 Lets you control no of automatic post publishing to
front page.
 Lets you force people to preview post before
publishing.

12. Front page
 Create a front page from create content and
remember its node number or give it an
alias(frontpage).
 Go to Site Configuration > Site Information
 Enter either node/x or the alias (frontpage) in the
"Default front page“ text box.

13. Menu management
 Lets create a primary menu.
 Go to Administer>>site building>>menu
 Click on primary links
 Click on Add item
 Give path as <front>
 Give menu title as Home
 Keep parent items as primary links

14.  Create these paths as more primary menu menu
 blog
 contact
 search
 Forum
 logout
Or pages you’ve created as node/x or as its alias
 node/1
 node/2 – give parent as node/1
 node/3 – give parent as node/1
Or link directly to create a content type
 node/add/story

15. Building secondary links
from primary links
 Now go to administer>>site building>>menu
 go to settings
 Set source for secondary links as primary links
 Check out your menu.
 Click on node/1 item link and see the submenu.

16. Create a new custom menu
 From administer>>site building>>menu
 click the add menu and give it a name and title.
 Now you can add links to it as usual with add item option.
Add links to all the content pages you’ve created. Use
path aliasing.
 Now, how do we see this menu?
 You can see it as a block
 you can go to menu settings and redirect primary links to
retrieve its links from your custom menu.

17. Blocks
 Go to administer>>site building>>blocks
 Blocks are the boxes of content (such as "User Login" or "Who's
online") that can be displayed in regions (such as footer or sidebar)
on your page
 Your site's theme defines the regions available. Therefore, block
placement in regions is done per theme on the Block Admin page.
 If you have more than one theme enabled on your site blocks can be
placed differently for each theme

18.  Blocks must be Enabled and assigned to a region.
 Disabled blocks are never shown.
 Throttled blocks are hidden during high server loads.
 Page-specific visibility settings. Individual blocks can
be configured to only show/hide on certain pages
 Custom visibility settings. Individual blocks can be
configured so that users decide whether to
show/hide certain blocks.
 Dynamic blocks (such as those defined by modules)
may be empty on certain pages and will not be
shown

19. Blocks
 Drag who’s new and who’s online blocks to right sidebar
area in block list.
 Click save.
 Go to configure link next to the who’s new block entry.
 Select show only on listed pages
 And enter <front>
 Save
 Repeat for who’s online
 Remember the menu we made earlier? It should be there
in the block list. You can put it and set it to appear in a
specific set of pages.

20. More block control
 Go to administer>>content mgmt>>content
 click on edit content.
 Change url path settings to page/<description>
 Where description is page name you want to give
 Repeat for two or three content pages.
 This allows you to group content.
 Eg: page/* routes to all content that you’ve just made.
 In block settings of that menu Select show on every pages
except listed pages.
 Give this entry in list
 page/*
 Page
 Click save

21. A block trick – step 1
 Go to site config>>input formats.
 Click configure next to filtered HTML
 If you’ve installed the token filter module earlier, you
will see a token filter checkbox. Check it and click
save.
 Go to administer>>site building>>blocks
 Click add block.
 Give block description as hello.
 Give this as body.
 Hi [token global user-name]!

22. A block trick – step 2
 Select show block for authenticated users.
 Now, in block page, find the hello block you’ve just
created and drag it to the header region.
 Click save.
 Voila! This will appear only for logged in users and
will provide a customized personal feel to the site
users.

23. Forums.
 In material/modules find
 advanced_forum
 advanced_forum_more_styles
 Author_pane
 go to c:/wamp/www/mysite/sites/all
 Copy these files into modules folder.
 Right click the tar file and click extract here.
 In browser, go to administer>site building>modules
 Enable all forum modules.

24. About forums
 Go to administer>>content mgmt>>forums
 Containers – placeholders for forums
 Forums – placeholders for forum threads
 Forum Topic – the content type for forums
 Comments – the subsequent replies.

25. Creating forums
 In administer>>content mgmt>>forums
 Click add container and create the following containers
one by one
 tech discussions
 Gardening
 Help here
 Then click on add foums
 Create mobiles, computers and give parent as tech
discussions
 Create landscaping, flowers and give parent as gardening
 Create help forum under help

26. Advanced forum
 Go to In administer>>site cofig>>advanced forums
 Select blue lagoon as theme
 Change other setting as necessary.
 Go to forums link and check the forum out.
 Congratulate yourself.

27. Organizing content
 Taxonomy is the practice and science of
classification according to natural relationships.
 In Drupal, this is one method administrators use to
organize content in a web site.
 When users view a post to which a term has been
assigned, along with the post, themes can be set to
display the taxonomy terms as links.

28. Working with taxonomy
 Go to Administer >> Content management >> Taxonomy
 Click add vocabulary. Name it music.
 You can tie your vocab with a custom content type if
required. Choose page for the time being.
 Now click on add terms next to music vocab entry.
 Here you can choose parent terms as well as related
terms. [synonyms]
 Create page content to see how these tags work.

29. Eg taxonomy structure
 Vocabulary = Music
 term = classical
 sub-term = concertos
 sub-term = sonatas
 sub-term = symphonies
 term = jazz
 sub-term = swing
 sub-term = fusion
 term = rock
 sub-term = soft rock
 sub-term = hard rock

30. Taxonomy tricks
 Make a couple of pages with music vocabularies
 Go to menu administration and make a menu link in primary
with path as
 category/music/classical
 Now, to find taxonomy number – when editing a termn in URL
….taxonomy/edit/term/8&destin….
 When you create a new term, Drupal assigns it a number. And
you can call up all the items categorized under that term by
calling for its number.
 taxonomy/term/8
 taxonomy/term/8,9 [two term listing by AND]
 Taxonomy/term/8+9 [two term listing by OR]
 taxonomy/term/8/all [all child terms]

31. Views
 Views is a powerful query builder for Drupal that
allows you to fetch and present lists and tables of
content (posts/nodes) to the user in ways that are
tailored to your site and your content.
 This tool is essentially a smart query builder that,
given enough information, can build the proper
query, execute it, and display the results as a page,
block, or other format such as an RSS feed.

32. Install DEVEL
 In material/modules find
 Devel module
 go to c:/wamp/www/mysite/sites/all
 Create a folder called modules. Copy these files into
it.
 Right click the tar file and click extract here.
 In browser, go to administer>site building>modules
 Enable all devel modules
 Now go to administer>>Generate items.
 Populate categories, users and content.

33. views.
 In material/modules find
 views
 go to c:/wamp/www/mysite/sites/all
 Copy these files into modules folder.
 Right click the tar file and click extract here.
 In browser, go to administer>site building>modules
 Enable all views & views UI

34.  Go to administer>>site building>>views
 Click “add”
 Give name as music types
 Give view type as node. If using CCK, give type as
that content type here.
 Click next.

36.  In basic setting click on row style and make it node.
 Click plus button on filters.
 Change groups to taxonomy and select
taxonomy:vocabulary.
 Click add.
 Keep operator as is one off and check Music.
 Click update.

37.  Click plus button next to arguments.
 Group:taxonomy and select taxonomy:term.
 Click add.
 In Action to take if argument is not present: choose
Summary, sorted ascending.
 Click update.
 Click style: and choose list.
 Click update
 use defaults for the next option.

38.  Under page click on the add display button.
 Now on this page, give title to your view.
 On page settings give a path to your view [music].
 And add a normal menu item link for it in primary
links.
 Click save.
 Check out your views from the primary link created.

39. CCK – why we use drupal.
 Drupal comes with core content types like story and
blog. 'create content' to submit a new story, blog
entry, etc.
 The Content Construction Kit allows you to add
custom fields to any of the content types using a web
interface
 CCK is one the most important and at the same time
most mystifying features of the Drupal platform.

40. uses
 CCK allows you to add one or more fields to an
existing content type.
 You could also add a field to make it easier for you to
organize or theme your content later using views.
 If you want ultimate flexibility in customizing your
content types then you can use CCK to create a
whole new content type that meets your
specifications.

41. advantages
 Easier block visibility - display a block when the node
viewed has this type
 Different URL schemes when auto-naming - EG:
/node-type/*
 content laid out by different custom types can also
be a benefit in organizing and searching content in
the content manager.

42. Do the CCK
 Go to Administer>>content types
 Go to add content type
 Fill in all details.
 In submission form settings, keep body field label
blank.
 In workflow, uncheck all.
 In comment settings, disable comments.
 Save content type

43.  Now, go to manage fields for your new content type.
 Create fields as required for your custom content.
[try making one now for a fruit]
 More contrib modules will increase the field types
available here. Get them from drupalmodules.org
 In manage fields, after adding, configure for more
settings related to the field type.

44. CCK
 Fields will show up in the views – filters area under
groups “content type”.
 You can customise exactly how you present all
available content sorted however you require from
the views module.
 Play around with this as per your requirements.