Transcript Additional Drupal topics presentation (PowerPoint) [revised Oct 11

Drupal Workshop
Introduction to Drupal
Part 2: User/role management,
Choosing/installing contributed modules,
Transferring a site between servers
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Users, Roles, and Permissions
Drupal has a flexible and powerful Permissions system,
composed of the following elements:
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User: Anyone who visits your site.
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Permission: The ability to see or do something on the site (e.g.,
see the page at a particular URL, add a comment, etc.).
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Role: A named set of permissions on your site. Users can be
assigned to multiple roles, and they have all the permissions of
each role they’re part of.
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Anonymous user: Special role for all non-logged-in visitors to
your site.
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Authenticated user: Special role for all logged-in visitors to your
site.
Choosing Contributed Modules
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Find modules
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drupal.org/project/modules - filter by topic
drupal.org/documentation - Structure Guide and Administration Guide pages
sometimes suggest modules
Drupal User Group meetings, Drupal camps, DrupalCon – Suggestions from
other Drupal users
Evaluate modules
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Issue queue: Are there many open issues? Are they being addressed?
Updates: When was the last commit (is it in active development)? When was
the first commit (how long has it been around)? When was the last version
released? Does it have a “stable” version, or only alpha/beta/development?
Usage statistics: How many sites are using this module?
Documentation: Does it have any (may need to download and check for a
README.txt file)? Does it make sense?
Ask around (Drupal User Group)
Transferring a Site
Between Servers First time transfer
1. Copy all the files (the whole Drupal directory tree) from the source
server to the destination server.
2. Set up a database (name and user/password) on the destination server
(using phpMyAdmin or hosting control panel).
3. Edit the sites/default/settings.php file on the destination server to point
to the new destination database name, host, user, and password (using
a text editor).
4. Export the entire source database to a file (using phpMyAdmin, format
“SQL”, and optionally gzip compression) .
5. Import the database export file into the destination database (using
phpMyAdmin).
Transferring a Site
Between Servers –
Ongoing Maintenance
Make the “live” site the source for database
updates (content, settings, etc.).
Use the “Backup and Migrate” module to
transfer database updates from “live” to “test”
server.
Test module and theme updates on the “test”
server. When they are working, copy the
sites/all folder to the “live” site.