Drupal
Note; a lot of this is old, for d6. to rework.
Drupal is a PHP-based Content Management Framework that became free (GPLv2) in 2001.
Use cases
It's used by a wide variety of organisations for a large number of purposes, including;
whitehouse.gov, economist.com, grammy.com, pythonline.com, ubuntu.com, mtv.co.uk, warnerbrothersrecords.com, popsci.com, appdeveloper.intel.com, research.yahoo.com, corp.aol.com ...
Orientation
Drupal started out way back when as a forum system, but has evolved into a strong middle-of-the-road CMS/F. Its power lies in a well-balanced module ecosystem and breadth of development community. There are a variety of interworking levels of abstraction within the Drupal framework. A lot of modules have their own hooks that other modules can work with, building a network of possibilities.
Articles
- The Drupal Learning Curve: a configurators view - A good overview of techniques and modules Drupal users will most likely learn over time.
- Drupal deployments & workflows with version control, drush_make, and Aegir - Using Drush, the Drupal cli management/scripting tool, and Aegir, the Drupal based development and hosting system.
- Using Drush Make - building a base Drupal installation through automation
- Drupal's basic building blocks - the search for core, Ronald Ashri, Nov 2009
- Drupal programming from an object-oriented perspective
Videos
- What you can do with Drupal from the administration perspective: Summary of Site Building with Drupal
- How Drupal themes and modules output things at the code level: Overview of Template.php from Advanced Theming for Drupal
- (A really great module for Drupal developers: Using the Drupal Theme Developer Tool: Theming Basics for Drupal)
- How to create content types with input fields: Adding a CCK Field: Learning CCK for Drupal
- How to display content nodes using Views: Views 2 Overview
- Using URLs to filter Views output: Using Views Arguments in Drupal
- How to use Panels 3 and override node add/edit pages: Drupal Panels 3
- Accessing external data sources (APIs on other sites) & Semantic Views: Drupalcon Copenhagen: Views 3
- Drupalcon Copenhagen: 15 modules to help you build a community website
- Drupalcon Copenhagen: Connect Drupal
Forms
For beyond basic content types fields;
- http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--topics--forms_api_reference.html/7
- http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--form.inc/7
- http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--form.inc/group/forms/7
- http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--form.inc/group/form_api/7
Data Portability, OStatus, etc
july 2010
- http://p2pfoundation.net/Social_Publishing_with_Drupal
- http://www.istos.it/blog/social-network/supporting-activity-streams-drupal
- http://status.net/2010/07/21/federated-social-web-summit-wrapup
- http://evan.prodromou.name/files/fedsocweb/fedsocweb.html
- http://www.devcomments.com/OpenSocial-and-OStatus-at246411.htm
august 2010
- http://groups.google.com/group/ostatus-discuss/browse_thread/thread/329e440ed44131f9
- http://www.istos.it/blog/federated-social-web/federated-social-web-and-drupal-notes-drupalcon-bof-meeting
Discussion
- http://groups.google.com/group/openid
- http://groups.google.com/group/dataportability-public
- http://groups.google.com/group/diso-project
- http://groups.google.com/group/oauth
- http://groups.google.com/group/activity-streams/
- http://groups.google.com/group/ostatus-discuss
- http://groups.google.com/group/federated-social-web
- http://groups.google.com/group/open-web-discuss
- http://groups.drupal.org/microformats-in-drupal
- http://groups.drupal.org/activity
- http://groups.drupal.org/semantic-web
- http://edinbuzz.net