Drupal Training: Introduction to Drupal 6

Course Number: DRPL-100
Duration: 3 days
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Drupal Training Overview

Accelebrate's Drupal Training: Introduction to Drupal 6 teaches attendees how to successfully build data-driven web sites using Drupal™, an incredibly powerful open source Content Management System. Attendees will learn how to use Drupal's robust API, flexible permissions system, and extensible framework.

Location and Pricing

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Drupal Training Prerequisites

All attendees must have a general understanding of internet terms such as webpage, URL addresses, users, drag and drop, web form, header, footer, sidebar, and blog.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This Drupal training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 10 minutes. Students "learn by doing," with immediate opportunities to apply the material they learn to real-world problems.

Drupal 6 Training Materials

All Drupal training attendees receive a copy of Apress' Pro Drupal Development and related courseware.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Linux, Windows, MacOS X, or Solaris operating system
Web server (either Apache httpd or Microsoft IIS)
PHP 5 or later
MySQL 4.1 or later (5 or later recommended)
Internet Explorer 7 or later, Firefox 2 or later, or Safari 3 or later

Note: XAMPP, available at http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html, provides a single installer with everything you need for the class on Linux, Windows, MacOS X, or Solaris.

Drupal Training Objectives

Students will learn to:

Use the administrative interface for content management and site configuration
Enable out of the box (Core) modules to extend the functionality of the core web site
Customize layout using blocks and regions
Create a View for content presentation using the VIEWS module
Use the Content Construction Kit (CCK) to dynamically create content types to be stored in the web site's database
Create and handle basic and customized forms with the Form API
Implement XML-RPC, a simple, portable way to make remote procedure calls over HTTP
Use Theming to customize the look and feel of a Drupal site
Use Panels to create customized layouts for multiple uses

Drupal Training Outline

Drupal Basics

How Drupal began
What is Acquia Drupal
What Technology Does Drupal Use?
What is Drupal?

Content Management System
Content Management Framework
Web Application Framework

Drupal terminology

Modules
Themes
Nodes
Blocks

Drupal Workflow

Bootstrap
Hooks and Callbacks

Getting started

Installing Drupal
The Admin Interface

Creating Content
Managing Content
Site Building
Site Configuration
User Management

Roles
Permissions
Creating User Accounts

Reports
Help

Out of the Box Modules

Core Required
Core Optional-enabled
Core Optional-disabled

User Contributed Modules

What They Are
Where They Are
What They Do
Downloading and Enabling
Popular Modules

Layouts in Drupal

Blocks and Regions
Default Blocks
Custom Blocks
Configuring Blocks

Enabling Default Blocks and Controlling the Front Page

File System

Download Methods
Upload Module
Upload Path Module
Storing user uploaded materials

Advanced Content with Contributed Module: CCK

The PAGE and the STORY
Input Filters
Creating Custom Content-Types
Field Permissions
Adding Fields to Content-Types

Text Fields
Numeric Fields
Contributed Module: Link Fields
Contributed Module: Image Fields
Contributed Module: Media Fields
Contributed Module: Field Groups
Contributed Module: Node Reference

Using the 'Display Fields' Settings

Teaser / Body Displays
Labels
Display Formats

Working with Taxonomy

What is taxonomy?
Vocabularies

Required Vocabulary
Controlled Vocabulary

Terms

Single and Multiple Terms
Adding Terms

View Content by Term
Storing Taxonomies
Module-Based Vocabularies
Common Functions

VIEWS: Advanced Displays With Contributed Module

Overview of VIEWS
VIEW Types

Default Views
Overriden Views
Normal Views

Displays

Basic Settings
Display Types

Default Display
Page Display
Block Display
RSS Feed

Creating a VIEW With the VIEWS User Interface

Basic Settings
Fields vs Node
Filters
Arguments
Relationships

The Form API

Form Processing
Validation
Form Submission
Redirection
Creating Basic Forms

Custom Module Basics
Creating your own Custom Module

Enabling the Custom Form Module
Accessing the Custom Form
Form API Properties

XML-RPC

What is XML-RPC?
XML-RPC Clients
A Simple XML-RPC Server

Theming

Architecture of the Theme System

Theme Templates
The .info file
Theme Engine
Hooks

Creating a Theme

Where are the files?
Installing a Theme
Creating and Enabling a Customized Sub-Theme
Theme Inheritance and Sub-Themes

Modifying a Base Theme
Theming with a Custom Stylesheet
Overriding Theme Behavior with PHP

Panels

What is a Panel?

Panel Types
Layouts

Creating a Mini Panel
Creating a Panel Page
Overriding the Default Front Page

Conclusion

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