Drupal is a free and open source Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for many different types of websites, ranging from small personal blogs to Enterprise 2.0 collaboration and knowledge management uses to large corporate and political sites, including whitehouse.gov.

The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features common to most CMSs. These include the ability to register and maintain individual user accounts within a flexible and rich permission / privilege system, create and manage menus, RSS-feeds, customize page layout, perform logging, and administer the system. As installed, Drupal provides options to create a classic brochureware website, a single- or multi-user blog, an Internet forum, or a community website providing for User-generated content.

Drupal was also designed to allow new features and custom behavior to be added to extend Drupal's core capabilities. This is done via installation of plug-in modules (known as contrib modules) created and contributed to the project by open source community members. For this reason, Drupal is sometimes described as a content management framework. Drupal is also described as a web application framework, as it meets the generally accepted feature requirements for such frameworks.

Although Drupal offers a sophisticated programming interface for developers, no programming skills are required for basic website installation and administration.

Drupal can run on any computing platform that supports both a web server capable of running PHP version 4.3.5+ (including Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, and nginx) and a database (such as MySQL or PostgreSQL) to store content and settings.

Lullabot - Drupal Learning Series Collection

Contents :
* Understanding Drupal
* Administering Drupal
* Learning CCK
* Learning Views
* Theming Basics
* Advanced Theming
* Site Building With Drupal


Understanding Drupal

In Understanding Drupal, the first in The Lullabot Learning Series, the Lullabot team provides an overview of Drupal as a content management system, as a PHP web application framework, and as a developer community. Its documentary-style exploration covers all the terminology and fundamental concepts for both site administrators and developers. If you’ve ever been confused by Drupal or are still trying to wrap your head around the community and platform, then this video is a roadmap to accelerate your journey up the Drupal learning curve.

Topics include:

* How content is entered and managed
* How users and user permissions are handled
* What blocks are and what they can do
* The concepts and capabilities of Drupal’s powerful module system
* How Drupal handles navigation and its menu system
* How themes alter the site layout, design, and presentation
* Site configuration and administrative messages and settings

This video uses Drupal 6 for examples, however it is more focused on general Drupal concepts rather than version-specific how-tos.

“I’ve been a Ruby on Rails developer for the last 4 years. Understanding Drupal is a great video and a handy resource for anyone new to Drupal. After building my first Drupal site, I believe that I am going to switch to Drupal development.”—Mike Woodward, Woodward Design Group

Lullabot has guided such companies as MTV, Sony BMG Records, Lifetime Television, IBM, and Fast Company in building and growing their Drupal websites. Recognized as some of the most influential and well-respected developers, consultants, and educators in the Drupal community, the team is responsible for best-selling Drupal books and Drupal workshops and seminars worldwide.

Addison Berry, Angela Byron, Jeff Eaton, Nathan Haug, Jeff Robbins, James Walker, and Matt Westgate sit down to tell us all about Drupal in this video directed and edited by Kent Bye.

Administering Drupal

How to manage the content, community, and functionality of your Drupal site

Have you been handed the reigns to a Drupal site you don't understand? Are you a Drupal developer who wants to empower your client to run their own site? If you need to run a Drupal site or you know someone who needs to run a Drupal site, then THIS is the video you need! Addison Berry, Angie Byron, and Jeff Robbins present a finished site with many common modules enabled and walk through common administration tasks and concepts such as:

* The content creation process and the different types of content
* Assigning roles and permissions
* Dealing with problematic users
* Organizing content and comments through the taxonomy and menu system
* Controlling the look and feel of the site
* Basics of Drupal image handling
* The differences between the front-end and the back-end
* An introduction to the module configuration that drives the functionality of your site
* Reports and logs that help you monitor the health of your site
* Resources for getting further help

Learning CCK

The Lullabot Learning Series continues with a hands-on look at Drupal’s Content Construction Kit (commonly known as CCK). In this tutorial video, Jeff Eaton, Nate Haug, and James Walker show everything from CCK basics such as adding and displaying fields to more advanced topics such as CCK’s database storage mechanisms, field-level permissions, and how to theme CCK’s output. Each chapter of this video builds upon the last as the team builds and configures the content types for a university job board. This video pairs well with Learning Views, which continues this job board project through to completion.

Chapter listing:

1. Introduction & Overview
2. Content Types in Drupal Core
3. The Content Construction Kit
4. Adding a New CCK Field
5. Text Fields & User Reference
6. CCK Formatters
7. How CCK Stores Data
8. File Field & Node References
9. Multiple Values & Shared Fields
10. Options that Change the Database
11. Additional CCK Modules
12. Field-Level Permissions
13. Multiple Value Widgets
14. Default Values
15. CCK vs. Taxonomy
16. Theming CCK
17. Conclusion

Learning Views

The Lullabot Learning Series continues with a hands-on look at Drupal’s Views module. In this tutorial video, Jeff Eaton, Nate Haug, and James Walker begin with a general overview of Views’ interface and capabilities. The team then builds a complex example showing more advanced Views features such as arguments, relationships, displays, access control, exporting, and theming a view. This video pairs well with Learning CCK, which begins the job board project used throughout each chapter.

Chapter listing:

1. Overview
2. Introduction to Views
3. Elements of a View
4. The Views User Interface
5. Creating a View
6. Displays & Overrides
7. Views Arguments
8. Views Relationships
9. Exposed Filters & Search
10. Attachment Displays
11. Access Control for Views
12. Case Study Finishing Touches
13. Exporting Views to a Module
14. Theming a View
15. Creating a View of Users
16. Additional Views Modules
17. Views Performance Tools
18. Conclusion

Theming Basics For Drupal

The Lullabot Learning Series continues with a hands-on look at Drupal's theming system. In this 2 hour and 44 minute long in-depth video guide, Nate Haug, Jeff Robbins, and James Walker explain the steps for translating a web design into a Drupal theme. The video explains Drupal's design vernacular, concepts, and special needs. The team shows how to associate the proper CSS & Javascript files, add all of the necessary regions, and control the HTML output through page and node-specific templates. You'll learn about the best tools and strategies for controlling the look and feel of your Drupal website. This video covers the basics of Drupal theming. Drupal's more complex theming topics are covered in the Advanced Theming video which pairs with this video and finishes the complete implementation of the 960 Robots theme used in both videos.

1. Introduction
2. Overview of Drupal theming
3. Setting up environment & switching themes
4. Design-to-theme translation strategies
5. Theming tools: Firebug & Web Developer
6. Overview of .info files
7. Creating a theme & applying CSS
8. Overview of template files
9. Creating the page template
10. Filling out the site & adding regions
11. Working with node templates
12. Using the Theme Developer tool
13. Adding javascript to a theme
14. Exploring page template variables
15. Adding a screenshot to your theme
16. Conclusion

Examples in this video are based on Drupal 6 and its variants.

The example 960 Robots Drupal theme as well as a complete download of the finished Drupal site used in this video are available for reference.

Lullabot has guided such companies as MTV, Sony Music, Lifetime Television, IBM, Popular Science, and Fast Company in building and growing their Drupal websites. Recognized as some of the most influential and well-respected developers, consultants, and educators in the Drupal community, the team is responsible for best-selling Drupal books and Drupal workshops and seminars worldwide.

Advanced Theming for Drupal

Picking up where the Drupal Theming Basics video lets off, the Lullabot Learning Series continues with an in-depth look at the advanced features of Drupal’s theming system. In this 2-hour video Nate Haug, Jeff Robbins, and James Walker explain how to completely control the HTML markup Drupal generates. You’ll learn how to modify and add variables sent to Drupal’s template files and how to use the Theme Developer Tool to simplify the task of working with and navigating Drupal’s complex theme system.

The video includes a crash course through PHP, then dives into advanced theming concepts with practical examples such as: how to theme forms, how to cleanly expose information to the theme system, and how to empower your site administrators by making certain parts of the theme available to them for customization. Lastly, the team covers security best practices on shows how to best sanitize user submitted data and prevent security exploits.

This video completely implements our freely available 960 Robots theme, and gives you the tools you need to make your Drupal site no longer look like a Drupal site.

1. Introduction
2. Overview of template.php
3. PHP for themers
4. Why use template.php?
5. Adding new template variables
6. Changing template variables
7. Overriding theme functions
8. Theming forms
9. Rearranging forms
10. Security tips for themers
11. Adding theme settings
12. Conclusion

Examples in this video use Drupal 6.

The 960 Robots Drupal theme as well as a complete download of the finished Drupal site used in this video are available for reference.

Site Building With Drupal

In this video, Addison Berry, Angie Byron, and Jeff Robbins illustrate Drupal's concepts and define much of its jargon while building a complete website. You'll see how to download and install modules, create and configure content types, build listing pages, and configure Drupal's multi-user permission system. The team shows how to use Drupal's taxonomy system to classify and organize your site's content, how to create and configure sidebar content using blocks, and many common tasks such as setting up a rich-text editor. Also discussed are tips for choosing which contributed modules to use, how to create private content, and how to launch a site. The video also shows how many pre- and post-launch tasks such as configuring cron, and how to upgrade your site to a new version of Drupal. This video will give you the knowledge you need to building powerfully flexible and dynamic community websites.

Full chapter listing:

1. Introduction
2. Installing Drupal
3. Orientation to a new Drupal site
4. Installing & enabling modules
5. Building different content types
6. Creating listing pages
7. Creating user roles & permissions
8. Adding taxonomy fields to content
9. Installing custom themes
10. Configuring blocks
11. Strategies for finding modules
12. Configuring WYSIWYG & Input Formats
13. Enabling node access & private files
14. Configuring cron & search
15. Prepping for launch
16. Upgrading & updating your Drupal site
17. Conclusion (free chapter available)

Lullabot has guided such companies as MTV, Sony Music, Lifetime Television, IBM, Popular Science, and Fast Company in building and growing their Drupal websites. Recognized as some of the most influential and well-respected developers, consultants, and educators in the Drupal community, the team is responsible for best-selling Drupal books and Drupal workshops and seminars worldwide.

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