Introduction to Drupal 7 Training

• Install Drupal and 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
• Work with the File System
• Create a View for content presentation using the VIEWS module
• Work with Custom Content Types
• 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
• Create interactive forms
• Use Theming to customize the look and feel of a Drupal site

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.

3 Days

Outline of Introduction to Drupal 7 Training 1. Drupal 7 Basics

• How Drupal began
• What is Drupal 7
• 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

2. Getting started

• Installing Drupal 7
• The Admin Interface
  • Creating Content
  • Managing Content
  • Site Building
  • Site Configuration
  • User Management
  • Reports
  • Help

3. Out of the Box Modules

• Core Required
• Core Optional-enabled
• Core Optional-disabled

4, User Contributed Modules

• What They Are
• Where They Are
• What They Do
• Downloading and Enabling
• Popular Modules
• Module selection and evaluation

5. Layouts in Drupal

• Blocks and Regions
• Default Blocks
• Custom Blocks
• Configuring Blocks
  • Enabling Default Blocks and Controlling the Front Page

6. File System

• Download Methods
• File Module
• Image Module
• Storing user uploaded materials

7. Custom Content Types with the Fields Module

• The PAGE and the ARTICLE
• 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 Manage Display Settings
  • Teaser / Body Displays
  • Labels
  • Display Formats

8. 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

9. VIEWS: Advanced Displays With Contributed Module

• Overview of VIEWS
• VIEW Types
  • Default Views
  • Overriden Views
  • Normal Views
• Displays
  • Basic Settings
  • Display Types
• Creating a VIEW With the VIEWS User Interface
  • Basic Settings
  • Fields vs Node
  • Filters
  • Arguments
  • Relationships

10. XML-RPC

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

11. 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

12. Creating Rules with the Rules module 13. Creating Interactive Forms with the Webforms module 14. 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

15. Conclusion