Drupal Training: Introduction to PHP and Drupal 6 Development

Course Number: DRPL-200
Duration: 5 days
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Drupal Training Overview

Accelebrate's Introduction to PHP and Drupal 6 Development training teaches attendees new to PHP and Drupal development how to build heavily customized Drupal solutions.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/?action=categorygroup&page=webdev.

Drupal Training Prerequisites

This course presumes extensive prior familiarity with HTML and CSS. Prior experience developing server-side web applications is strongly recommended.

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 Training Materials

All attendees receive a copy of Apress' Pro Drupal Development, Addison-Wesley's PHP and MySQL Web Development, as well as related courseware.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Linux, Windows, MacOS X, or Solaris operating system
XAMPP
Internet Explorer 7 or later, Firefox 2 or later, or Safari 3 or later
Drupal 6 or 7
PHP-aware IDE for your choice

Drupal Training Objectives

Students will learn to:

Build interactive, data-driven sites using PHP
Use PHP to process forms, work with cookies, and use Objects in N-Tier Web Architecture
Install Drupal and use the Admin interface, Layouts, Out of the Box Modules, and the File System
Use the Drupal 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
Implement Drupal modules including custom content types
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
Use XML-RPC to allow complex data structures to be transmitted, processed and returned
Integrate Drupal with Google Maps using Google Map Tools
Develop custom Drupal Modules

Drupal Training Outline

PHP Basics

How PHP Works
The php.ini File
Basic PHP Syntax
Variables
PHP Operators
Creating Dynamic Pages

Single Quotes vs. Double Quotes
Howdy World!

Flow Control

Conditional Processing

If Conditions

If Conditions
Loops

while
do...while
for
break and continue

Arrays

Enumerated Arrays
Initializing Arrays
Appending to an Array
Reading from Arrays
Looping through Arrays
Associative Arrays
Superglobal Arrays
Two-dimensional Arrays
Reading from Two-dimensional Arrays
Looping through Two-dimensional Arrays
Array Manipulation Functions

PHP and HTML Forms

How HTML Forms Work
A Sample HTML Form
Form Variables
GET versus POST

String Manipulation

Formatting Strings

Concatenation
String Manipulation Functions
Examples of String Functions

Magic Quotes

magic_quotes_gpc
magic_quotes_runtime
Recommendation on Magic Quotes
Conclusion

Reusing Code and Writing Functions

Including Files

require
require_once
auto_prepend_file and auto_append_file

User Functions

Defining and Calling Functions
Default Values
Variable Scope
By Reference vs. By Value

Form Processing
Code Organization

Session Control and Cookies

Sessions

Configuring Sessions
Session Functions

Object-Oriented PHP

Building a Class
Working with Properties and Functions
Private, Protected, Public modifiers
Inheritance
Interfaces
Building a Web Page Object
PHP Objects in N-Tier Web Architecture
Importance of PHP Business Objects

Drupal Basics

How Drupal began
What is Acquia Drupal

Subscriptions, Acquia Search, Hosting, DrupalGardens.

What technologies Drupal uses

Linux or Windows
Apache or IIS
PHP+MySQL

What is Drupal

Community
Content Management System
Content Management Framework
Web Application Framework

Drupal Workflow

Bootstrap, hooks, callbacks, output

Drupal terminology

Modules (Core and Contributed), Nodes, Blocks, Regions.

Getting started

Installing Drupal

Setting up the admin account
Original setup options

The Admin Interface

Content Management
Site Building
Site Configuration
User Management
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

User Management

Roles
Permissions

Layouts in Drupal

Blocks and Regions
Default Blocks
Custom Blocks

File Systems

Storing user uploaded materials

Understanding content-Types and Entering Content into Drupal

The PAGE and the STORY
Input Filters
Adding menu entries to content
Path Module
Contributed Module: PathAuto
Controling the Front Page
Creating New Content-Types

Advanced Content in Drupal With Contributed Module: CCK

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

Advanced Displays With Contributed Module: VIEWS

Overview of VIEWS

Default Views Settings
Displays [Page, Block, RSS]

Creating a VIEW With the VIEWS User Interface

Basic Settings
Fields vs Node
Filters
Arguments
Relationships

The Form API

Understanding Form Processing
Creating Basic Forms
Form API Properties

Working with Taxonomy

What is taxonomy?
Kinds of taxonomy
View Content by Term
Storing Taxonomies
Module-Based Vocabularies
Common Tasks
Taxonomy Functions

XML-RPC

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

Integration with Google Maps using Google Map Tools

Drupal Module Development

Introduction to Drupal modules
Creating your first module
Understanding the Theme System
Creating a theming module

Conclusion

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