Drupal 101
Topic: Developer | Audience: Beginner
Description
This training is for anyone who knows nothing or very little about Drupal and wants to learn the basics. Although this is a basic course, it will give you a very good overview of what Drupal is capable of, since most of its major features can be covered in a basic course.
The training will be in 3 parts. If you just want to understand what Drupal is and how it works, section 1 is enough, and then you can simply watch and listen during section 2, as opposed to doing all the setup required in that section to to actually develop with Drupal.
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1. Build a Drupal site using the Drupal GUI
Attendees will create a site on the Pantheon hosting platform. Using that site, we will walk through how to build a site using only the Drupal interface. We will learn about content types, fields, taxonomy, media, users, permissions, views (lists of content) and more. Only a browser will be needed for this portion of the course and you can stop after this section if you only want to learn about Drupal capabilities and not how to develop with it.
IMPORTANT: You will need a Pantheon account which you can get here for free: https://pantheon.io/register
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2. Developing with a Drupal site.
Using Git, we will pull down the code from our Pantheon sites. We will setup a "local" version of the site on our computers.
We will add modules using composer, configure them, and review the Drupal configuration file system. Then we will push our changes up our Pantheon sites.
If we have time, we will create a Drupal theme.
The Drupal part of this section is relatively simple, but the computer setup part is not. What is needed on your computer for this section is:
A. Terminal
We will be running commands in terminal. Mac and Linux have this included. Windows users may want to install this https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/ ...but have a look at this first: https://www.wikihow.com/Open-Terminal-in-Windows
B. Code editor
Highly recommend VS Code, which is free and many pro developers used these days. https://code.visualstudio.com/
But if you already have something else installed that you use, that's fine.
C. Git
See: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git
Optional: Sourcetree: https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
D. Composer
E. Drush (version 9)
See https://docs.drush.org/en/7.x/install/
F. Lando
See https://lando.dev/download
Lando is what we will be using for a local web server. If you already have something else installed that you use, that is fine, you don't have to use Lando.
G. SSH keys
In your main computer user folder, if you see a folder named .ssh and you see these two files in it, then you are all set: id_rsa id_rsa.pub
If you do not, you need to create an SSH key pair, see: https://pantheon.io/docs/ssh-keys
IMPORTANT: Please make every effort to have the above installed before you arrive, but the instructor will help you when you arrive if you need it.
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3. Q& A Period
We will leave a pretty long Q&A period at the end so that anyone who had difficulty can get help, and further questions can be asked.
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Requirements
1. A laptop computer: Mac, Windows or Linux.
2. Install the items mentioned in section 2 of the training (if you plan to do that section)
Resources
Training Length: Half Day | Room: TBD | Timeslot: Half Day Morning (9:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
Trainers: Rick Hood
