Building complex web site the Drupal way

Speaker: Fredrik Jonsson

Fredrik Jonsson@frjo_xdeb

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Drupal

What is Drupal

Less coding, more configuration (The Drupal way)

Adding a image gallery to a blog, live example.

Questions

Open Source CMS distributed under the GPL

First released in 2001

Founder Dries Buytaert, Belgium

Great community

Code and API will change, data is sacred

Clean and solid API

Many small building blocks for flexibility

Drupal

Less code, more configuration

Only small snippets of ”glue” code and extensions to other modules

Make any custom modules in to general implementation and release them on d.o.

Build the theme on a good base theme

Follow Drupal Coding Standard

The Drupal way

Quick development of complex web sites

Easy to upgrade to new Drupal versions

Easy to expand the web site

Reusable solutions

Secure solutions

Benifits

Must take the time to really learn Drupal and a number of important modules.

Always do things the right why, no quick and ugly shortcuts.

Use time now to save it tenfold in the future.

Follow Drupal Coding Standard

Requirements

Web sites

Text

www.mapleleafweb.com (By me)

www.mapleleafweb.com (By me)

labs.sonyericsson.com (By NodeOne)

Example

Example

Check out thisDrush, the Drupal shell

Apache Solr integration, pro search function

Aegir hosting system

Version control with Bazaar or Git

Fredrik Jonsson@frjo_xdeb

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