Building Web Applications with Drupal

Training Overview

Drupal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) and Content Management framework (CMF) written in PH. It is used as a back-end system for at least 1.5% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites including whitehouse.gov and data.gov.uk.
Building Web Applications with Drupal teaches attendees how to successfully build data-driven web sites using Drupal, an incredibly powerful open source Content Management System. Attendees will learn how to use Drupal's robust API, flexible permissions system, and extensible framework.

Training Objectives

Students will learn to:

• Use the administrative interface for content management and site configuration
• Enable out of the box (Core) modules to extend the functionality of the core web site
• Customize layout using blocks and regions
• Create a View for content presentation using the VIEWS module
• Use the Content Construction Kit (CCK) to dynamically create content types to be stored in the web site's database
• Create and handle basic and customized forms with the Form API
• Implement XML-RPC, a simple, portable way to make remote procedure calls over HTTP
• Use Theme to customize the look and feel of a Drupal site
• Use Panels to create customized layouts for multiple uses

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