Drupal CMS Administration

Day 1

• Introduction to Drupal
• What is CMS?
• Why Drupal?
• Features of Drupal
• Use of Drupal
• Brief Introduction to PHP, MySQL
• Creating Content
• Displaying Content
• User Management

Day 2

• Advanced Content Management
• Modules Management
• Themes Management
• Access Control
• SE Optimization
• Drupal Backup
• Drupal Upgrade
• Installing Plugins

Drupal Development

Day 3

• Understanding Drupal
• Drupal Architecture
• Drupal Core Components
• Drupal Modules
• Drupal Modules
• Creating Custom Module
• Structure of Drupal module
• Creating and Updating existing module
• Disabling and uninstalling modules
• Hooks
• What are hooks and how to use them?
• Different types of Hooks
• Implementation of custom hooks

Day 4

• Database Abstraction Layer
  • Database Interaction using Drupal's API
  • Inserting, updating and deleting rows
• Forms
  • Forms API
  • Forms creation, alteration and validation
  • Multiple Form pages

Day 5

• Theming
  • Analyzing Drupal theme
  • Using default theme functions
  • Overriding theme function in a theme
  • Adding custom variables to Drupal themes.
• Caching
  • CacheAPI
  • Utilizing Caches in Module