Drupal

What is it?

Drupal

Drupal is content management software. It's used to make many of the websites and applications you use every day. Drupal has great standard features, like easy content authoring, reliable performance, and excellent security.

But what sets it apart is its flexibility; modularity is one of its core principles. Its tools help you build the versatile, structured content that dynamic web experiences need.

Drupal

The Drupal project is open source software. Anyone can download, use, work on, and share it with others. It's built on principles like collaboration, globalism, and innovation.

It's distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License(GPL). There are no licensing fees, ever. Drupal will always be free.

Drupal - Who uses?

https://www.drupal.org/case-studies

Drupal - Who uses?

Drupal

• Originally created in Belgium
  • Dries Buytaert (@Dries)
• First release:
  • May 18, 2000; 17 years ago

Why D8?

• Drupal 8 is the latest Major release
  • Is the most modern version of Drupal
  • Is not compatible with 6.x, 7.x or 9.x
  • Has the latest features (Twig, Symphony, ...)
  • It's stable
    • Many agencies have already changed over
  • But still many D6/7 projects to maintain
    • D5 is barely used anymore
    • D6 is rare

https://www.drupal.org/core/release-cycle-overview

Semantic Versioning

1. MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,
2. MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner,
3. PATCH version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes.

http://semver.org/

https://drupalize.me/videos/semantic-versioning

Features

Drupal 8

Features

• CMS
  • Content (with types)
    • ​Pages, Articles, Custom
    • WYSIWYG
      • Custom text editing profiles
  • Categorisation
  • Menu's
  • Media (images, video, etc)

Features

• Content modelling framework
  • ​There is no substitute when it comes to managing custom content-types
• Multilingual
  • ​Add as many languages as you want

Features

• Blocks
  • Placement of modular blocks
    • Set of default blocks
    • Custom blocks
    • Full editing/customising abilities
• Layout management
  • Regions, templates

Features

• Views
  • Powerful editor to build any sort of
    • Overview
    • Admin list
    • Feeds (RSS, JSON)
  • "A UI to build & manage advanced SQL queries"
    • But way easier than it sounds

Features

• Open source
• Built on symfony php framework
• Twig for templates

Features

• Fully modular
  • Few thousands of modules already
  • Can extend/build your own
• Theming
  • 220-ish "starting" themes
  • Fully customisable

Features

• Configuration management
  • Configuration can be exported to code
    • Config files
    • Can be added to GIT
    • Less fidgeting with DB backups

When

do you choose Drupal?

When?

• If the project requires:
  • an atypical setup of content
  • a lot of webservices/apis
  • heavy customisation
    • f.e.: exchange data with 3rd-party systems)

Don't use Drupal to build your own/grandmas blog

Use Drupal for advanced management/reporting sites/application 

Drupal 8

How to use

Summary

• Installation
• Admin UI
• Content
• Structure
• Appearance
• Extend
• Configuration
• People
• Reports
• Help

Installation

Docs

Important notice!

We will be doing a manual installation without composer. For beginners composer will make things too difficult.

Follow the steps on these slides

For the risk-takers:

Installation with Composer:

https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/install

Summary

1. Get the Code (download)
2. Create a database
3. Run the installer
4. Status check

1) Download

https://www.drupal.org/download

1a) Download

Place files in MAMP/XAMP htdocs folder (of custom web folder -> See settings)

2) Create database

drupal

3) Installation

Warning != Error

Hit continue below

Warning != Error

Hit continue below

Error?

Check your  logs!

Google is

your friend

Non Default Ports

Root user - Save this information!

Success!

4) Status check

Go to

http://localhost/drupal/admin/reports/status

Errors should generally be fixed

but this one is not critical right now*

* don't release a site without fixing this on the server

Exercise

Install Drupal 8 locally

Admin interface

Toolbar

Desktop

Mobile

Toolbar

Dashboard?

Nope.

Content

Content overview

Search by name & filter content

Comment overview

Files overview

Add content

Add content

Add content

Add content

Not used by default

& rarely used overall

Add content - preview

Add content - publish

Menu

Admin tabs

Protip: Contextual links

Protip: Autosuggest

circle indicates autosuggestions

Exercises

Exercise

1. Add an About us page
   • Use the WYSIWYG
     • Add a link
     • Format text
   • Add an image
   • Set a path alias
   • Add it to the main menu

Exercise

1. Add some Articles
   • Use the WYSIWYG
     • Add a link
     • Format text
   • Add an image
   • Set a path alias

Structure

Structure

• Block layout: reusable "widget"
• Comment types: manage comments
• Contact forms: manage forms
• Content types: all content has a type: article, page, custom
• Display modes
• Menus
• Taxonomy: categories, vocabularies
• Views: create custom overviews, listings, rss feeds, webapi's

Block layout

Block layout

Regions

Block layout

Block layout - content

Block layout - Place block

List of all available blocks

Block layout - Add custom

Block layout - Add custom

Block layout - Configure

Block layout - Configure

Block layout - Configure

Block layout - Result

Comments types

Will see later

Contact forms

Contact forms - overview

Contact forms - add

Contact forms - add

Contact forms - result

Contact forms

Is commonly replaced by webforms

(Will see later)

Content types

Content types - Notice!

We will spend a lot of time in class

building content types.

For now get acquainted with:

• Manage fields
  • Add/edit/remove fields
• Manage form display
  • The form when adding/editing the content
• Manage display
  • How the fields are presented to the visitor

Content types - overview

CT - Edit

CT - Manage fields

CT - Manage form display

CT - Manage display

View modes

Will see later

Menus

Menus

Menus - edit

Menus - add/edit link

Menus - place menus

Taxonomy

Taxonomy

Taxonomy

Views

Will see later

But feel free to have a look around

Appearance

Appearance

Appearance

Appearance

Appearance - add

Appearance - find themes

https://www.drupal.org/project/project_theme

Appearance - activate

Appearance - update

Appearance - settings

Appearance - theme settings

Exercise

Install & activate a theme

Extend

Extend - overview

Extend - install

Extend - find

https://www.drupal.org/project/project_module

Extend - example

https://www.drupal.org/project/pathauto

Extend - example

Extend - enable

Extend - install plugins

https://www.drupal.org/project/ctools

https://www.drupal.org/project/token

Extend - enable

Extend - configure

Extend - configure

Exercise - Pathauto

Set up an alias for all Articles

F.e.: /articles/title-of-article

Configuration

Configuration: a note

Configuration contains a lot of different options. It is not required to know all of these options to start using Drupal.

As we continue working with Drupal, the occasion will rise more and more often that we will have to use a new aspect of Drupal's configuration.

We will learn these as we go

Configuration

Configuration

Configuration

Configuration

Configuration

Configuration

Configuration

Configuration

People

People

People - Permissions

People - Roles

People - Add user

People - Add user

People - Add user

Almost never used

Exercise

Create a webmaster role

Create a webmaster role

• User can:
  • add/edit content
  • add pages/articles
• Test this user
  • Make a user with this role
  • Log in w/ user
  • Add/edit content

Reports

Reports

• Available updates: Get a status report about available updates for your installed modules and themes.

• Recent log messages: View events that have recently been logged.

• Field list: Overview of fields on all entity types.

• Status report: Get a status report about your site's operation.

• Top 'access denied' errors

• Top 'page not found' errors

• Top search phrases

• Views plugins: Overview of plugins used in all views.

Available updates

Help

Help

What to remember

Get acquainted with these subjects

Subjects

• Basic content management

  • Add/edit pages/articles

• Menu management

• Basic Block management

  • Place blocks

  • Use custom blocks

• Install/enable a theme/module

• Use reports/logs

• Change basic configuration