Category: drupal

Discuss Drupal ”; Previous Next Drupal is a free and open source Content Management System (CMS) that allows organizing, managing and publishing your content. It is built on PHP based environments. This is carried out under GNU i.e. General Public Licence, that means everyone have a freedom of downloading and sharing it to others. This tutorial will teach you the basics of Drupal using which you can create websites with ease. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Drupal – Invoice Generation ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we”ll study how to generate invoice in Drupal. Invoice is a document with a statement of amount and cost, unique invoice number and tax information. Following are the steps to generate invoice in Drupal. Step 1 − Download the latest file of Invoice module and install in your Drupal site. Step 2 − Enable the Invoice in Modules and click Save configuration. Step 3 − Go to Store –> Invoices. Step 4 − Click Add Invoice. Step 5 − You can view the Add Invoice page. Invoice # − Enter the invoice id number sent to the customer. Company Name − Enter the company name who should pay the invoice. Invoice Amount in USD − Enter the amount that customer has to pay. After filling the invoice details, click Add Invoice. Step 6 − Go to Store –> Invoice –> Manage Invoices. Here, you can view your pending and paid invoices. Copy the link given in the detail column and it”ll redirect you to the checkout page. Step 7 − You can also pay by navigating to the given link localhost<Your Site Name>user/invoices/pay, it”ll redirect you to Pay Invoice page as shown in the following screen. Here, you have to enter the invoice number and click Pay Invoice button. It will then redirect you to the Checkout page as shown in the following screen. You can enter the information for billing and click Continue to next step button. Step 8 − You can review the product information and also the invoice number and company name. Click on Continue to next step button. Step 9 − A final message will get displayed as Checkout complete as shown in the following screen. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Drupal – Email Notifications ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will learn how to send E-mail Notifications to the owner or creator, when a new comment is posted to the article. E-mail Notification is an alert that a new mail has arrived in your mail box. Following are the simple steps to set up e-mail notification in Drupal. Step 1 − Click Configuration menu on Drupal. Step 2 − Next, click Rules link in the WORKFLOW section as shown in the following screen. Step 3 − Click Add new rule link. Step 4 − Next, the Rules page will get displayed as shown in the following screen. It contains the following fields − Name − Enter the name. Tags − Enter the tags React on Event − Select the event where the notification should arrive. Restrict by Type − Select the type where you need to filter the values or events. After filling all the fields, click the Save button to save the rule. Step 5 − Now, Editing reaction rule “Comment Notification” page gets displayed. Click Add action link in Actions section as shown in the following screen. Step 6 − Add a new action page gets displayed. Select Send mail option in System section from the dropdown menu. Step 7 − Next, a page will get displayed as shown in the following screen. Following are the details about the fields present in the preceding screen. Data selector − Select comment→node→author→mail from the dropdown menu. Subject − Enter the mail subject in the Value text box. REPLACEMENT PATTERNS − This data selection input mode may help you find more complex replacement patterns. You can select the TOKEN type and replace it as per demand. MESSAGE − Enter mail”s message body content in the message Value text box. FROM − It displays the mail address from which mails will be sent to the receiver. LANGUAGE − It specifies the language used for getting the mail message and subject. You can choose the language from the dropdown menu. Click the Save button to save the notification. Step 8 − You will see the following screen, after you save your notification. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Drupal – Extension ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will learn about Drupal Extensions. To extend the functionality of the site, different extensions can be installed. Following are the steps to install Extension module in Drupal. Step 1 − Click on Modules from the menu bar. Step 2 − Click on Install new module. Step 3 − The following page gets displayed. Here, enter the module URL in the box as shown in the following image and click Install. Step 4 − The module starts getting installed as shown in the following screen. Step 5 − Once installation is complete, you get the following screen. Here, click Enable newly added modules link. Step 6 − Next, a Module page gets displayed where your module has been installed, now you can enable the module. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Drupal – Quick Guide ”; Previous Next Drupal – Overview Drupal is a free and open source Content Management System (CMS) that allows organizing, managing and publishing your content. It is built on PHP based environments. This is carried out under GNU i.e. General Public License, which means everyone has the freedom of downloading and sharing it with others. Drupal is used on million sites such as WhiteHouse.gov, World Economic Forum, Stanford University, Examiner.com and many more. What is Content Management System? The Content Management System (CMS) is a software which stores all the data of your content (such as text, photos, music, documents, etc.) and is made available on your website. A CMS helps in editing, publishing and modifying the content of the website. History The standard release of Drupal known as Drupal core was developed by Dries Buytaerti in January 2001. It is considered as a leading CMS in variety of industries. Why to use Drupal? If you are developing a website with content management system, Drupal CMS is very flexible than any other CMS. Drupal is very powerful and can be used for building large, complex sites. It is PHP based template and allows non-technical users to add and edit the content without any HTML or Web design knowledge. Using Drupal CMS, it is easy to interact with other sites or technologies as Drupal can handle complex forms and workflows. It is available with more than 16000 modules which can be addressed with Drupal core and add-on modules. Features Drupal makes it easy to create and manage your site. Drupal translates anything in the system with built-in user interfaces. Drupal connects your website to other sites and services using feeds, search engine connection capabilities, etc. Drupal is an open source software hence requires no licensing costs. Drupal designs highly flexible and creative website with effective display quality thus increasing the visitors to the site. Drupal can publish your content on social media such as Twitter, Facebook and other social mediums. Drupal provides more number of customizable themes, including several base themes which are used to design your own themes for developing web applications. Drupal manages content on informational sites, social media sites, member sites, intranets and web applications. Advantages Drupal is a flexible CMS that allows handling content types including video, text, blog, menu handling, real-time statistics, etc. Drupal provides a number of templates for developing web applications. There is no need to start from scratch if you are building simple or complicated web applications. Drupal is easy to manage or create blog or website. It helps to organize, structure, find and reuse content. Drupal provides some interesting themes and templates which gives your website an attractive look. Drupal has over 7000 plug-ins to boost your website. Since Drupal is an open source, you can create your own plug-ins. Disadvantages Drupal is not a user-friendly interface. It requires advanced knowledge and few basic things about the platform to install and modify. Drupal is a new content management system. It is not compatible with other software. Performance is low compared to other CMS. The website which is built using Drupal will generate big server loads and will never open with a slow internet connection. Drupal – Installation This chapter provides step-by-step procedure for Drupal installation. Before installing Drupal, the following system requirements are necessary. System Requirements for Drupal Database − MySQL 5.1 + Web Server − WAMP (Windows) LAMP (Linux) XAMP (Multi-platform) MAMP (Macintosh) Nginx Microsoft IIS Operating System − Cross-platform Browser Support − IE (Internet Explorer 8+), Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera SSL (Secure Socket Layer) − A valid security certificate is required for HTTPS PHP Compatibility − PHP 5.2+ Download Drupal Step 1 − Download the Drupal and copy to your web server from this link − https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal Step 2 − Select the latest version of zip file which you want to download as shown in the following screen. The Recommended releases are the latest stable releases of either version. Setup Wizard It”s very easy to setup Drupal on your system. The following steps describe how to setup Drupal locally on your system. Step 1 − Download the zip file and extract it to your local computer. Rename the folder from its current name to any name of your choice to refer to your site. Step 2 − Drupal requires MySQL database. Create a new empty database with user/password for Drupal to use. (For e.g., user as “root” and password as “root” or else you can set as per your choice). Step 3 − Open your browser and navigate to your Drupal file path, you will see the first Drupal installer screen as shown in the following image. In our case the path is localhost/< Your_drupal_folder >. Select the Standard option and click Save and continue. Step 4 − Select the default language for Drupal website. After selecting the language, click Save and continue. Step 5 − Go to Database configuration page. You need to enter the type of database you will be using, and other details as follows. Database Type − Select the database type. By default, it will be MySQL. Database name − Enter the database name for Drupal. Database username − Enter the user name of your MySQL database. Database password − Enter the password which you had set for MySQL Database. When you click the ADVANCED OPTIONS, you will see the following screen − You can fill the advanced options for the database − Database Host − Enter the host name where your database is located. Database port − Enter the database port. Table Prefix − It is used to add prefix in the database tables, which helps to run multiple sites on the same database. After filling all the information, click the Save and continue button. Step 6 − The installation process starts on your machine. Step 7 − The Configure site page appears on the screen − It contains the following fields − Site name −

Drupal – Setup Shopping Cart ”; Previous Next Basically cart is a process of collecting items or services and uses checkout to collect payment. In this article, we will see how to set up a shopping cart for Drupal site by using Commerce Kickstart module. Commerce Kickstart is a good way to work with Drupal – E-Commerce which comes with different types of features to create user-friendly web store making it easier to launch and administer. You can download the Drupal Commerce Kickstart from here. Step 1 − Download the latest file of Commerce Kickstart module from the above link and install it on your system. After installing the module, you will get the following screen. Step 2 − Before adding products in your cart, you need to create products in the store. Click Add Product –> Create Product. Step 3 − You can create product as shown in the following screen. Following are the details of the fields present on the page. Product SKU − Unique identifier for the product is given here. Title − This specifies the title of the product. Image − Here you can upload image and give alternate text for your product which will be used by screen readers, search engines, when the image cannot be loaded. Price − It contains price of the product. Status − Set this field to Active option, so that it can be added to shopping cart. If it is set to Disabled option, products cannot be added to shopping carts and may be hidden in administrative product lists. Change History − It provides history of changes made to the product. After you are done with all settings, click the Save product button. Step 4 − You will see the created product in the table. Step 5 − To display your product in the cart, click Add product display. In this window, Title field contains title of the product, you can add summary for the product in the Body field. Product field uses product SKU to display for the sale. After you are done with the settings, click the Save button. Step 6 − You will see the product displayed on the home page as shown in the following screen. Step 7 − Click the Add to cart button to add the created product in the cart. It will display the successful message after adding product to the cart. You can see the product name along with price in the Shopping cart block. Step 8 − Now click the View cart link to see the added product in the shopping cart. Step 9 − You will see the shopping cart table along with the products as shown in the following screen. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Drupal – Useful Resources ”; Previous Next The following resources contain additional information on Drupal. Please use them to get more in-depth knowledge on this topic. Drupal Online Training 62 Lectures 3.5 hours Tutorialspoint More Detail Drupal For Beginners – Master Drupal Quickly 25 Lectures 2.5 hours Shubham Saurav More Detail Cybersecurity Mastery Course: Build Your Own Capture The Flag (CTF) Server 22 Lectures 1.5 hours Umair Hussain More Detail Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Drupal – Poll Module ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study how to create a Poll module in Drupal. This module helps you create polls for your website. You can ask questions, give any number of answers and your visitors can vote. Following are the steps to create a Poll Module. Step 1 − Click Module from the menu bar. Step 2 − Enable the Poll module and then click Save Configuration. Step 3 − Click Content → Add Content. Click Poll as shown in the following screen. Step 4 − A Create Poll page gets displayed where you can create a Poll. It contains the following fields. Question − Add a question you want to add in the poll. Poll Status − If you click Closed, then visitors cannot vote. And if you click Active then visitors are enabled to vote. Poll Duration − Select a particular time period till you want your poll to exist. After the time period is completed the Poll closes by itself. After you complete updating settings, click the Save button. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Drupal – Site Backup ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study about Site Backup in Drupal. It helps in backing up the files and the database file. Backup Files in Drupal Backup Database in Drupal Backup Files in Drupal To get the backup files of Drupal, you need to install FileZilla Client on your system. Following are the simple steps for file backup in Drupal − Step 1 − Open the FileZilla Client as shown in the following screen. Step 2 − Enter the Host, Username, Password and Port as you have used to login to your cPanel. After filling all the fields, click Quickconnect button. Step 3 − You will get all files and folder of your Drupal site on the right side as shown in the following screen. Step 4 − Select all the files and folders and right click the mouse, click the Download option. After downloading the Drupal files from cPanel, it will get saved on your system. Backup Database in Drupal Following are the simple steps for database backup in Drupal − Step 1 − Type the path http://localhost/phpmyadmin in browser. You will get the following screen. Step 2 − Click the database name drupal, which you have created for Drupal. Step 3 − After clicking on database drupal, it will open the following page, click Export tab. Step 4 − Next, you will find two methods to export the database i.e. Quick and Custom. Select any one of the methods and click the Go button. After exporting the database file, it will get saved on your system. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Drupal – Create Pages ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study about how to Create Pages in Drupal. It is very easy to create pages in Drupal. Following are the simple steps used to create pages in Drupal. Step 1 − Click Content in the top menu. Step 2− Click on Add content as shown in the following screen. Step 3− Click the Basic page option. Step 4− Create Basic page will get displayed where you need to fill all the required details as shown in the following screen. Following are the details of the fields present on Create Basic page. Title − It specifies the title for new page. Body − It specifies the description of the page. Text format − It specifies the Text format for your page such as Filtered HTML, Full HTML, and Plain text. Menu settings − By clicking on checkbox Provide a menu link, it shows the details of Menu such as Menu link title, Description, Parent item, and Weight. Revision information − It specifies to provide revise information, if any changes are made in the pages. URL path settings − It specifies to add URL alias to access the content of pages to the users. Comment settings − By selecting open or close, it allows displaying a comment box for the page. Authoring information − It specifies the authored name and the date when page has been authored. Publishing options − It specifies that the page should be Published, Promoted to front page and Sticky at top of lists for the users. Once you complete adding the content to the page. Click the Save button to create the page. Before saving the details, you can also preview the filled page using the Preview button. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;