video2brain - Drupal Power Workshop

WEBRip | MP4 + PDF Guidess + Project Files | English | 1280 x 720 | AVC ~450 kbps | 25 fps

AAC | 64 Kbps | 44.1 KHz | 1 channel | ~5 hours | 1.16 GB

Genre: Video Tutorial / Web design

Although simple to use, the content management system Drupal offers some powerful tools to help you build highly sophisticated websites. In this workshop developer and trainer Joe Chellman shows you how to incorporate advanced functionality like views, calendars, the Display Suite module, news, polls, surveys, forms, panels, and social media integration to your basic Drupal site so you can customize it to suit your needs. You’ll learn how to use some of the best contributed modules from the Drupal community and even how to create your own module. In the process you’ll build the development skills you need to build websites of any kind.

Content:

Please Welcome Cash Bacon

Where We're Starting, Where We're Going

Software Needed for This Course

Importing the Drupal Files

Importing the Database

Logging In and Setting Up

Views: Superpowered Lists of Content

What Is the Views Module?

Creating a Basic News Page

Making a New Records Page

Refining the Records Page

Listing Shows with Date, Calendar, and Views

Improving the Shows Section with Date Modules

Adding a Show Content Type with a Date Field

Adding More Shows with Devel Generate

Making an Upcoming Shows Page

Customizing Field HTML

Creating a Past Shows Page

Grouping Upcoming and Past Shows with Tabs

Creating an Upcoming Shows Block

Making a Calendar Page

Revisiting News and Views

Adding Exposed Filters to a News Page

Making a Contextual Filter for Authors

Creating an Authors Summary Block

Relationships: Tying in More Data

Creating a Topics Page and Summary

Display Suite: Powerful Content Display

What Is Display Suite?

Changing a Node View

Using View Modes and Views

Using Display Suite Fields

Using Display Suite Dynamic Fields

Using Field Templates

The Webform Module: Surveys, Contact Forms, and More

Webform vs. the Core Contact Module

Making a Contact Webform

Creating a Fan Poll

Saving Time with Form Builder

Panels: Codeless Control of Full Page Layouts

What Are Panels and Grammar?

Creating a Panels-Based Home Page

The Page Manager UI

Gotcha: Blocks Visibility vs. Panels

Organizing the Node Add/Edit Page

Social Network Integration

Adding a Widget from Twitter.com

Installing and Configuring the Twitter Module

Making a Tweets Block with Views

Facebook Integration Options

Installing and Configuring the Activity Stream Module

Making a Facebook Status Updates Block

Installing the Facebook PHP SDK

Using Facebook for Comments

Further Customizations: Theme and Module

The Theme(s) We're Using

Making Some Small CSS Changes

Why Write a Module?

Hooks and the Drupal API

Starting to Write Your Module

Making the Module Actually Do Something

Enabling and Testing the New Module

Where to Look for More Information