Drupal 7...Why Drupal • Drupal community consists of roughly 750,000 people • There are nearly...
Transcript of Drupal 7...Why Drupal • Drupal community consists of roughly 750,000 people • There are nearly...
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Drupal 7 What’s new, what can it do, and should you use it?
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Overview
Why Drupal?
WHY NOT?
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Why Drupal
• Drupal community consists of roughly 750,000 people
• There are nearly 14,000 user contributed modules available
• One of the largest open source projects
• Core updates released about every 2 - 3 months
• New stable releases of core are scheduled for the last Wednesday of each month (if applicable)
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Benefits of Using Drupal • No need for working knowledge of SQL thanks to Views
module.
• Easliy configurable blocks of content that can be available in any number of configurations on your page.
• Quick access to roles and permissions on a granular level
• Ease of importing data from other sites with help of Feeds module
• Built-in jQuery library with easy to set up features, i.e. dropdowns, subnavigation, and Ajax in Views.
• Simple to use user interface for content of site and site-wide functionality
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What Drupal is good for:
• Granular permissions?
• Retrieve dynamic data without any PHP/MySQL code
• Ease of creating content types
• Complex relationships between data
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Would I ever use Drupal 6?
• Only if absolutely necessary
• New feature development has been frozen for 6
• Drupal 8 is around the corner
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What's New in 7 Already!?
• Much improved Usability
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Typical Drupal 6 Admin Themes
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New Administrative Interface
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40+ Popular Modules moved to Core
CCK - the definitive module for creating unique content types
Image Handling - Image Field, ImageCache, Image API
Increased Security - Flood Control, Login Security, Secure Password Hashes (no more MD5), CRON
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Should I Upgrade from 6 to 7?
Sure!
System requirements – six takes 30-40 megs of ram, seven takes 40-64mb
D7 requires PHP 5.2.5 or higher (6 required 4.4.0+)
These modules require special migration:
CCK, Content Taxonomy, Date Timezone, Field taxonomy, FileField/ImageField, Image, Taxonomy Delegate, Taxonomy Intro, Term Fields
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Any Questions?