Drupal - Content Management System

By Prof Kannan Moudgalya - Principal Investigator of Spoken Tutorial Project | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Learners enrolled: 11003

This course comprises 28 audio-video spoken tutorials, using which you can self-learn Drupal Content Management System with ease.

STEP 1-

First of all install Drupal by following the steps given in this sheet.

https://spoken-tutorial.org/Drupal-Installation-Sheet-English.pdf/

This sheet gives the steps to install Drupal on Linux and Windows OS.
Open the sheet, read the instructions for your OS and install Drupal on your machine.
Cross-verify (as mentioned in the sheet) to confirm successful installation.

STEP 2-

Next, read this sheet. https://spoken-tutorial.org/Drupal-Instruction-Sheet-English.pdf/

This sheet explains how to learn from spoken tutorials.
This sheet also mentions some important information about the text editors while coding, how to use the command prompt (in Windows OS), how to use the Code Files, how to do the Assignments, etc.
Read this sheet carefully and make a note of all the information, before you begin.

STEP 3-
Follow the side-by-side learning methodology while learning from spoken tutorials - watch the video, listen to the instructions, pause the video, try out the command on your system. You should get the exact same results as shown in the video. If successful, proceed with the video. Else, rewind and watch the video again and replicate the commands shown.

Complete all the videos in the given sequence one by one.
The Assignment for each tutorial is for your self-assessment only. Do not upload it anywhere for evaluation.

Summary

Course Status :	Upcoming
Course Type :	Elective
Duration :	Self Paced
Category :	Multidisciplinary Management Studies
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate

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Introduction to Drupal

Drupal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. Originally written by Dries Buytaert (who still continues to lead the Drupal project), Drupal turned open-source in 2001 and since then has blossomed into a powerful and friendly content organizer with the contribution of countless developers world-wide to the Drupal core itself, as well as various add-on extensions to Drupal (in the form of modules, themes, language kits and documentation etc).

Thousands of websites worldwide rely on Drupal including the official website of White House, FOSSEE Project, IIT Bombay website, etc. Drupal allows novice web authors to quickly publish their website without any knowledge of writing code or designing pages, while still giving advanced developers an extensive API to hook into the Drupal core and enhance it to any desired objective.

Drupal runs on any computing platform that supports both a web server capable of running PHP 4.4.0+ (including Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, and nginx) and a database (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite) to store content and settings.

This set of tutorials will cover features and usage of Drupal version 8.x. Please see the associated text box of individual spoken tutorials on the website to decide the versions of Drupal and OS to which it is applicable.

The original Drupal tutorials were created by Acquia and OSTraining and were shared (free of cost) with the Spoken Tutorial Project so that a revised version suitable for Indian students could be created. The Spoken Tutorial Project thanks them and Dries Buytaert for this noble gesture.

The Spoken Tutorial effort for Drupal was contributed by Priya K. and Nancy Varkey from the Spoken Tutorial Project and school students Varsha Venkatesh, Gautam Narayanan, Ameesha Bhorkade, Vanessa Varkey, Calvin Nikhil Tomy, Prajakta Ghorpade and Hrutika Parab.

The review and supervision of this series was done by Prof P. Sunthar from IIT Bombay.

Learners: Web developers, website administrators, and UG/PG CSE/IT/CS students who wish to learn website management.

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