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One of the variables presented to this template by the Drupal theme system can flag whether the front page is being displayed.

EJH: Front End Drupal - my first book with a Real Publisher - has been a fantastic journey. I love teaching.

Spend time looking at the Drupal core includes and modules, contributed modules, and themes to see how things are implemented.

We were all very excited with the apparent growth in the number of women in the Drupal community.

The next screen prompts for the Drupal database name you created earlier, as well as a login and password to access the database.

There is a easy-to-use module in Drupal called the Webform that allows you to create virtually any type of form.

If you add microdata to a field formatter for your own project, you can contribute that work back to the Drupal community.

Through this series we made friends in the Drupal community, and we also made contacts at IBM where we found a number of Drupal users.

For a specific theme, certain content elements, provided by Drupal to be used by a theme, can be enabled or disabled.

We introduced the terminology used in Drupal and provided a few examples of things you can do with the flexible taxonomy system.

At the time of this writing, the link field formatter defined by the Drupal Link module doesn't support microdata, but you can change that.

Drupal comes with several built-in themes, and a wide variety of additional third-party themes are available to choose from.

PHPTemplate allows you to map specific files, called template files, to specific functions and modules within Drupal.

Drupal is open source software licensed under the GPL and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers.

Combined, AMP and Drupal process each request for a story and respond with the correct data in a formatted page or feed.

For your Drupal site to be useful, the underlying server must keep an accurate clock.

If you want a Web presence fast, Drupal is a worthwhile option sure to pay dividends on your investment.

Instead, Drupal's core Update Notifications feature automatically alerts you to new releases.

Enter the database name as well as the username and password for the database that you created in Step 3: Create Drupal's database.

In the rest of this section, you learn how to install, configure, and use the Zend tool to help you debug a Drupal module.

We'd heard that the access control of Drupal can be more granular, but figured we could deal with that using the flexible extensibility.

Drupal's built-in blog system is very easy to use and customize.

We need a Drupal expert which can do both theming and programming. who should work minimum 6 hours a day and 5 days a week.

Consider building a web application that could be deployed anywhere (examples of such could include Drupal, WordPress, or Joomla).

Immediately below the flit is a traditional Drupal story, which demonstrates how heterogeneous content can be rendered on the same page.

If you create a new module to extend Drupal functions, you need to tell Drupal how you want to display the data generated by the module.

There is still an apparent learning curve to the "Drupal Way" of creating sites, but significantly less compared with other CMSs.

Prior versions of Drupal had a clunky ordering and placement interface, but this new option is much more efficient and direct.

With its user interface, site administrators can create forms to collect content from users.

It's a powerful way to add interesting and relevant features, and the code can be added to a simple content pane within Drupal.

Hopefully, you now know enough about Drupal to evaluate it for your own use.

And Drupal can suit any variation in between, depending on the requirements, technical savvy, and financial resources of the organization.

Drupal, Joomla and WordPress are three of the top open source CMS platforms and are all built on PHP (also open source).

A breakpoint is set on the line where the Drupal bootstrap is initiated, as shown in Figure 12.

In the Site maintenance account field, enter the Username, E-mail address, and password for the main administration account.

This is a default phptemplate engine theme that comes with Drupal and contains the basis on which you can create your own custom theme.

Drupal 7 may require the time parameter to be at least 30 seconds.

A Drupal content module typically extends the standard Drupal node with supplemental fields stored in a separate table.

This article looks at three such tools that provide easy and extensive support for this functionality: WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla! .

An administrator can assign users to different roles as defined in the access control section of the Drupal administrative interface.

One way of doing this is to print the Drupal arg function straight into the class attribute value, as shown in Listing 5.

In the Update notifications field leave both boxes checked if you want your Drupal server to alert you when updates are required.

Now that we are comfortable using Drupal, we've used it in subsequent projects as a rapid prototyping system.

Using Drupal was just part of the solution, although it was central to the development process.

A content module also leverages the Drupal user, role, and permission subsystem to realize and enforce privileges and persist preferences.

They offer additional themed Web links to the node content, and Drupal allows any module to add these through the link hook.

And PHP is the computer language and interpreter used to code and execute Drupal.

These are typically documented on the Drupal site but are easy to miss.

It easily integrates with popular publishing platforms like Drupal, WordPress, and Textpattern.

The Drupal theming system, as explained in previous articles, lets us keep the structure and presentation separate from the program logic.

Drupal will automatically create a view for all nodes tagged with a specific term.

All user administration and page administration afterward should happen through Drupal.

As with the load section of this sequence, Drupal now looks for any nodeapi hooks in all the available modules.

If these conditions are met, Drupal starts to assemble a form required to add a node of this node type.

So given this, we would typically search the directory under which Drupal is installed for instances of function theme_[TFN].

This username and password information allows Drupal to access your database, so the install script can create tables.

Drupal core is free and open source, but has premium products and services geared toward enterprises offered through the Acquia network.

Drupal's theming system helps you to do this.

When the Drupal core software is updated, you need to be particularly careful about backing up your data.

The site is a modified version of the Drupal content management system created for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign.

We describe the mechanics of using Drupal's theming system to extend and modify the default presentation of content.

Busy Drupal sites may consider caching their pages to lighten the load on their server and speed up page-generation times.

So after going through our own learning curve, we realized we could help others by writing these technical articles.

Visit Drupal. org to find documentation, add-on modules, and other resources, as well as connect with others in the Drupal community.

Similar to Drupal, the wiki-style documentation system supporting this solution is useful.

Drupal is a relative youngster compared to other content management systems (CMSs).

This function will exist in either the Drupal core include and module files, or any contributed module files.

You can search the Drupal Web site for help with any installation and configuration problems you encounter.

First of all, mainstream open source software like Drupal and MediaWiki have both started supporting RDFa directly.

Drupal lets theme designers use CSS to alter the presentation of the XHTML content.

Now Drupal constructs the data structure that describes the form widgets given the node object data.

It supports numerous platforms and set-ups including C# sites, Django sites, Drupal, Joomla! , WordPress, and several others.

By default, Drupal applies style through the styles. css file in the misc directory.

You can even consider using Drupal as a base for expansive new development.

It is also the minimum PHP version that the Drupal and Joomla projects will be supporting in their next versions, both due out this year.

When the URL path tells Drupal to add a node, the node building sequence is significantly different from the View operation.

If you wanted to step over the function call to drupal_bootstrap in the index. php file, you would have used the step over action, or F6.

Drupal then checks if comments should be rendered for this node.

Drupal is an open source CMS, designed with flexibility at its core.

The next section looks at what Drupal 5. 0 offers and how it impacts a typical Web site development process.

It is important to understanding how Drupal searches for theme functions and is worth summarizing this again.

Configuration of Drupal really is a breeze, and you can customize myriad features from the pages shown here.

In the Input format section, set the content type to PHP code to allow Drupal to properly process the code.

Drupal then creates a simple form that is rendered to a Web page asking the user to confirm this delete operation.

Download the latest stable or "recommended" version of the module compatible with Drupal V6.

To read more on this topic, see the Drupal theming overview.

Note: One benefit of going with a one-click installation is that some providers also automate the process of upgrading Drupal core software.

As for accessibility within forms, Drupal makes sure form elements are preceded with LABEL elements when using the form API.

Drupal is secure when installed, without doing anything special.

By definition, if you use . tpl. php files in your theme directory, Drupal will know to use the phptemplate engine.

Drupal separates the content from the presentation using a theme system.

If you work with Drupal even for a short time, you'll quickly be enamored.

Drupal also has a mechanism for defining the use of a tabbed interface.

While Part 1 is not specifically a review of CMS solutions, we described our rationale for choosing Drupal.

Each message should have a title (just like every Drupal node) and a terse statement of 140 characters or less.

To install a new module, download its code from its project page, extract it, and copy the module to Drupal's module subdirectory.

The nodeapi hook provides another way for any module to extend Drupal's core operations: load, view, prepare, delete.

Regions are areas into which themed blocks and node content are rendered by Drupal.

Even though this is a partial introduction, these concepts are key to your understanding the inner workings of Drupal.

Drupal now supports user login via industry-standard OpenID.

From this section you can control virtually all aspects of your Drupal site easily and efficiently.

Drupal uses its menu system to define the navigation for the Web site.

Drupal is a content management system that powers an estimated 2% of the web.

You can theme your content using various theme engines within Drupal.

Of course, the core also manages stories, or what Drupal calls nodes.

Refer to Part 4 and the Drupal documentation during the configuration process.

It is also likely that other drop-in replacements will work well with Drupal, but they have not specifically undergone testing.

result The Drupal path based on the database. If there is no match in the database it'll be the same as $path.

As mentioned, a Drupal page can define one or more regions, and each region can contain no, some, or many blocks.

If no suitable module is available, you can create a new feature in little time using the Drupal module APIs.

The operation that deletes the node from the Drupal system.

Drupal uses a process of elimination to decide what function it should use to pass this data so that a themed output can be generated.

Removing a module from your Drupal site is as simple as adding it: Simply disable it and save the configuration.

Now, Drupal invokes any nodeapi hooks in all the available modules.

Drupal now starts the process of rendering the node object data into content.

This is the first file called on the server side in the request to a Drupal installation.

Drupal may be powerful, but it is also complex.

Drupal 5. 0 now implements methods to uninstall modules so that the database can be cleaned up.

The exception is the Drupal system.

We did have to invest some time to learn the Drupal way, and the framework just seemed to make sense.

We did have to invest some time to learn the Drupal way, and the framework just seemed to make sense.

Drupal 5. 0 includes some important improvements to the theming engine.

The method of clearing floats without the use of additional XHTML markup is not implemented in Drupal 5. 0.

Drupal then stores the node title, which it can use for inclusion in the Web page title later in the request life cycle.

The Drupal core provides essential features, such as user management, session management, and templating.

Figure 3 shows the default installation of Drupal using the new Garland theme.

If you use . xtmpl files, Drupal will know to use the xtemplate engine.

Part 2 shows how to add modules to a Drupal V6 site to incorporate new features.

Enter a configuration name, such as Watch a Drupal request.

Choose a friendly name for the site, such as Drupal Demo.

For example, Drupal can certainly provide a platform for sharing free educational content.

Berylizer is a Admin Theme for Drupal 6. x.

For example, session management as provided by Drupal and Typo3 is not typically supported.

In Drupal, a role represents the job someone performs, such as writer or editor, or a class of users, such as "staff. "

Give the server details a name; for example, Drupal development server.

Drupal 4. 7 has just been released with many enhancements to Version 4. 6.

After a moment, you should have a file named something like drupal-6. 12. tar.

These errors are caused by MySQL 5. 0 having a strict mode that is incompatible with several Drupal queries.

Drupal is written on top of a database abstraction layer, so the framework can be easily extended to other database back ends

There are generic templates for existing node types that Drupal provides to help you customize your theme. The page. tpl. php

Strix is a theme specifically designed for the Drupal administration pages. It is built as a sub theme of Zen

In this article, follow along as we create a theme in Drupal and focus on methods that helped to enable

Some contributed modules, and also Drupal core 5. x (but not Drupal core 6. x), additionally require the following rights:

Many other improvements to Drupal core and performance have been made in Drupal 5. 0, including

You should be aware of several changes to the module system with Drupal 5. 0, including