DRUPAL:AnOverview& Installation BSShivaram NCSI NET shivarams_gowda@yahoo.com 08 November2008 th Dr.TBRajashekarMemorialSeminaron ContentManagement
About this Presentation Brief history Features Requirements Workflow Some Example Sites Support Installation Demo Dr.TBRajashekarMemorialSeminaron 08thNovember2008 ContentManagement
Brief History In 1998 1999, Dries Buytaert and his friends from University of Antwerp developed Message Board and shared on LAN and later on Internet.InitiallyDrieswantedtoregisterthesiteundertheDutchword "Dorpje"whichinEnglishmeans"littlevillage".Whileregisteringthe domain, Dries made an error and typed "Drop" instead of "Dorpje andcontinuedtoretainthesame.sothefirstinternetwebsitepowered by an online version of Drupal was Drop.org. After almost a year, around2000and2001,manypeopleprovideddrieswithnewideasand featurestoaddtothe"messageboard".driesdecidedtoopensource his software so that the community is able to experiment on their own and leave him the time and space to do his own experimentation and developing.itwasatthismomentthatthe"messageboard"software becametheopensourcesoftware"drupal". Dr.TBRajashekarMemorialSeminaron 08thNovember2008 ContentManagement
Features Opensource sourcecodeisfreelyavailableunderthetermsofthegnu GeneralPublicLicense Multi Platform:availableforUnix/Linux/Solaris/Windows/MacOSX 3000+ websites : more than 3000+ various kinds of websites are using Drupal(allarelistedinwww.drupalsites.net) DownloadDrupalathttp://drupal.org Personalization contentandthepresentationcanbeindividualized Flexibility can create and add Modules easily & extend drupal functionality Collaborative Book feature lets you setup a "book" and then authorize otherindividualstocontributecontent Version control tracks content updates, who changed it, what was changed,thedateandtimeofchangesmadetocontentetc.itenablesyou toroll backcontenttoanearlierversion Dr.TBRajashekarMemorialSeminaron 08thNovember2008 ContentManagement
Features contd.. Role based permission system can assign permissions to roles orgroupofusers Polls enablesadminsand/oruserstocreatepolls Templating allows to control the look and feel of your site. TemplatesarecreatedfromstandardHTMLandPHPcoding Threadedcomments providesapowerfulthreadedcommentmodel forenablingdiscussiononpublishedcontent Discussion forums full discussion forum features are built into Drupaltocreatelively,dynamiccommunitysites Contentsyndication exportsyoursite'scontentinrdf/rssformat forotherstogather. Newsaggregator powerfulbuilt innewsaggregatorforreadingand bloggingnewsfromothersites Dr.TBRajashekarMemorialSeminaron 08thNovember2008 ContentManagement
Features contd.. Searching SimpleSearch AdvancedSearch FieldBasedSearch Multilingual designed to meet the requirements of an international audienceandprovidesafullframeworktocreateamulti lingualwebsite Analysis, Tracking and Statistics browser based reports with informationaboutreferrals,contentpopularityandhowvisitorsnavigate yoursite LoggingandReporting Allimportantactivitiesandsystemeventsare capturedinaneventlog Caching reducestheserverloadandincreasetheretrievalspeed Webbasedadministration viabrowser Dr.TBRajashekarMemorialSeminaron 08thNovember2008 ContentManagement
Software Requirements WebServer: Apache 1.3or2.x(Linux/Wimdows) OR Database IIS IIS5orIIS6(windowsonly) MySQL 4.1orhigher OR PHP: PostgreSQL 7.4orhigher PHP5.2orhigher(recommended) EasywaytoInstall Apache2Triad(BundledpackageofApache2.2+PHP5+MySQL5+PERL,etc.,) OR XAMPP(BundledpackageofApache2.2.9+PHP5+MySQL5+PERL,etc.,) Dr.TBRajashekarMemorialSeminaron 08thNovember2008 ContentManagement
WorkflowinDrupal Dr.TBRajashekarMemorialSeminaron 08thNovember2008 ContentManagement
ExampleSites:Education Dr.TBRajashekarMemorialSeminaron 08thNovember2008 ContentManagement
ExampleSites:Photography Dr.TBRajashekarMemorialSeminaron 08thNovember2008 ContentManagement
ExampleSites:Health Dr.TBRajashekarMemorialSeminaron 08thNovember2008 ContentManagement
ExampleSites:Art(Painting) Dr.TBRajashekarMemorialSeminaron 08thNovember2008 ContentManagement
ExampleSites:Science&Technology Dr.TBRajashekarMemorialSeminaron 08thNovember2008 ContentManagement
ExampleSites:eCommerce Dr.TBRajashekarMemorialSeminaron 08thNovember2008 ContentManagement
ExampleSites:Non profitorganization Dr.TBRajashekarMemorialSeminaron 08thNovember2008 ContentManagement
ExampleSites:Indian Dr.TBRajashekarMemorialSeminaron 08thNovember2008 ContentManagement
Support OnlineDocumentation(Handbooks) DiscussionForum:http://drupal.org/forum CommercialSupport Trainingresourcesbyvariousorganizations FAQ:http://drupal.org/node/202799 Books:http://drupal.org/books Dr.TBRajashekarMemorialSeminaron 08thNovember2008 ContentManagement
BooksonDrupal BuildingOnlineCommunitieswithDrupal,phpBBandWordPressbyRobertDouglass,Mike Little,andJaredW.Smith Drupal.Community WebsitesentwickelnundverwaltenmitdemOpenSource CMSbyHagen Graf Drupal:CreatingBlogs,Forums,Portals,andCommunityWebsitesbyDavidMercer ProDrupalDevelopmentbyJohnVanDykandMattWestgate Drupal5ThemesbyRicShreves SellingOnlinewithDrupale CommercebyMichaelPeacock BuildingpowerfulandrobustwebsiteswithDrupal6byDavidMercer LearningDrupal6ModuleDevelopmentbyMattButcher ProDrupalDevelopment,SecondEditionbyJohnVanDyk BooksInPress UsingDrupalbyAngelaByron,AddisonBerry,JeffEaton,NateHaug,JamesWalker, JeffRobbins PracticalDrupal:EvaluatingandUsingaWebContentManagementSystembyNiall Mansfield DrupalInActionbyEzraBarnettGildesgameandGregKnaddison Hello!DrupalbyGregHolsclaw Dr.TBRajashekarMemorialSeminaron 08thNovember2008 ContentManagement
DrupalInstallationonWindowsXP ReferInstallationdocument InstallationDemo Dr.TBRajashekarMemorialSeminaron 08thNovember2008 ContentManagement
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