Drupal Web Development

In the course Drupal Web Development participants learn to use newest version of the Drupal Content Management System, CMS, to set up a complete web site.

Drupal Intro

The course starts by installing Drupal and a first site is built and the associated modules are chosen. Next it is discussed how a typical site is built in Drupal and how the Drupal page model works.

Drupal Components

Participants learn the meaning and use of the various components in Drupal such as fields, views, modules, nodes, blocks and pages.

Blocks en Regions

The course then continues with the layout with blocks and regions and also default blocks and custom blocks are discussed. The content types in Drupal including PAGES and ARTICLES on which fields of different types can be placed are discussed.

Taxonomies

Participants also learn what taxonomies are and how you can work with views, themes and input forms.

Web Services

Finally attention is paid to some advanced topics such as web services with XML-RPC. After completing this course participants can independently build a web site with Drupal.

Drupal API

To develop a Web Site in Drupal virtually no programming knowledge is required. Developers however can develop even more functional applications with the Drupal API.

 

Audience Drupal Web Development Course

This course targets persons that want to use Drupal for the design of a Web site or Web Application.

Prerequisites Course Drupal Web Development

No specific knowledge is required to participate in this course. General knowledge of Web applications and experience with computers is desired.

Realization Training Drupal Web Development

The theory is discussed on the basis of presentation slides. Demo's are used to clarify the treated concepts. In a number of subsequent exercises participants create a Drupal Website with often used functionality.

Certification Drupal

After successful completion of the course the participants receive an official certificate Drupal Web Development.

Modules

Module 1 : Drupal Intro

• What is Drupal?
• CMS Systems
• Drupal terminology
• Content Management Framework
• Web Application Framework
• Modules and Themes
• Nodes and Blocks
• Drupal Workflow
• Bootstrap
• Hooks and Callbacks
• Installing Drupal

Module 2 : Drupal Core

• Admin Interface
• Creating and Managing Content
• Site Building and Configuration
• User Management
• Out of the Box Modules
• Core Required
• Core Optional-enabled
• Core Optional-disabled
• User Contributed Modules
• Popular Modules
• Module selection and evaluation

Module 3 : Layout and Files

• Layouts in Drupal
• Blocks and Regions
• Default Blocks
• Custom Blocks
• Configuring Blocks
• Enabling Default Blocks
• Controlling the Front Page
• File System
• Download Methods
• File Module
• Image Module

Module 4 : Fields Module

• Custom Content Types
• The PAGE and the ARTICLE
• Input Filters
• Field Permissions
• Adding Fields to Content-Types
• Text and Numeric Fields
• Link and Image Fields
• Field Groups
• Node Reference
• Manage Display Settings

Module 5 : Taxonomies

• What is taxonomy?
• Working with Taxonomy
• Vocabularies
• Required Vocabulary
• Controlled Vocabulary
• Single and Multiple Terms
• Adding Terms
• View Content by Term
• Storing Taxonomies
• Module-Based Vocabularies

Module 6 : Drupal VIEWS

• Overview of VIEWS
• VIEW Types
• Default Views
• Overridden Views
• Normal Views
• Displays
• Basic Settings
• Display Types
• Basic Settings
• Fields vs Node

Module 7 : Themes

• Theme System Architecture
• Theme Templates
• The .info file
• Theme Engine
• Hooks
• Creating a Theme
• Theme Inheritance
• Modifying Base Themes
• Custom Stylesheets
• Overriding Theme Behavior

Module 8 : Forms

• Forms with Webforms module
• The Form API
• Form Processing
• Validation
• Form Submission
• Redirection
• Creating Basic Forms
• Custom Module Basics
• Enabling Custom Form Module
• Form API Properties

Module 9 : Advanced Topics

• Rules with the Rules module
• Common Functions
• Relationships
• XML-RPC
• What is XML-RPC?
• XML-RPC Client
• XML-RPC Server
• REST Server
• JSON and REST
• Filters and Arguments