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Nodes, CCK & PanelsAn Introduction to Content in Drupal
Jon Skulskijon@chapterthree.comhttp://www.chapterthree.com/blog/jon_skulski
BADCamp 2009
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Content in Drupal
• Drupal is a Content Management System
• Drupal has Content Types
• Drupal has Node
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RSS Gallery Item: A Content Type
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A node is an instance of a content type
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What’s In a Node?
• Creation Date
• Last Updated Date
• Author
• Published / Unpublished status
• Title & Body
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Nodes and Content Types Provide:
• Consistent and Valid Data
• Themable & Styled Data
• Usable Data
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Extending the Node
• The Node data is necessary but not sufficient.
• For sufficiently advanced Content technology, we will need new magic.
• Enter: The Content Construction Kit
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Content Construction Kit• Allows us to specify specific kinds of data,
called Fields
• Pluggable by submodules that really get the party going:
• Filefield / Imagefield - attach files and images
• Link - store URLs and Links
• Date - store date and time information
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Content Type Example• Creating a “Place” type
• Place Title / Description
• Image
• Type of Place (taxonomy)
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DemoSaturday, October 17, 2009
Categorization of Nodes
• Taxonomy is a way of saying Categories
• Vocabularies consist of terms
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Node Theming
In my day we had to preprocess our variables ourselves
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Node OverrideThe Future of Node Theming
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Panels & CCKLove at 2.5
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Panels Administrative Interface
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Panels Administrative Interface
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Panel LayoutsSaturday, October 17, 2009
DemoSaturday, October 17, 2009
Thank You
http://www.chapterthree.com/blog/jon_skulski
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