Drupal for Education and Elearning.
With clear instructions and plenty of screenshots, this book provides all the support and guidance you will need as you begin to create your classroom website. Step-by-step tutorials show you how to use Drupal in the most efficient and effective ways possible. People new to Drupal will find a good i...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham :
Packt Publishing,
2013.
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Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introducing Drupal; What is Drupal?; Drupal
- a short historical overview; What Drupal can do for you; Drupal terminology; Taking notes; Summary; Chapter 2: Installing Drupal; Assumptions; The domain; The web host; Web server; PHP version; MySQL version; FTP and shell access to your web host; A local testing environment; Setting up a local environment using MAMP (Mac only); Setting up a local environment using XAMPP (Windows only).
- Configuring your local environment for DrupalPHP configuration; MySQL configuration; The most effective way versus the easy way; Installing Drupal
- the quick version; Installing Drupal
- the detailed version; Enabling core modules; Assigning rights to the authenticated user role; Summary; Chapter 3: Getting Started; The core installation; Core user functionality; My Account; Add content; Log out; Administrative functionality; Dashboard; Content; Structure; Appearance; People; Modules; Configuration; Reports; Help; Next steps
- building the foundation; Installing modules and themes; Files.
- DirectoriesCore modules and themes; The sites directory; Steps for adding modules and themes; Step 1
- downloading; Step 2
- decompressing; Step 3
- uploading; Step 4
- enabling; Configuring modules and themes; Modules; Themes; Modules and themes
- a summary; Creating roles; Creating content types; Step 1
- creating the content type; The Name and Description sections; The Submission form settings page; The Publishing options page; The Display settings page; The Comment settings page; The Menu settings page; Step 2
- adding fields; Step 3
- assigning taxonomies.
- Adding a taxonomy to a content typeStep 4
- assigning permissions; The result; Creating content types
- summary; Creating views; Step 1
- adding a view; Step 1 (a)
- describing the view; Step 1 (b)
- selecting the type of data and filter; Step 1 (c)
- selecting a display type; Step 1 (d)
- setting display type options; Step 1 (e)
- setting the display format; Step 2
- editing the view; Step 2 (a)
- adding fields; Step 2 (b)
- adding/editing filters; Step 2 (c)
- adding/editing contextual filters (optional); Step 2 (d)
- editing display format (optional).
- Step 2 (e)
- setting additional configuration options (optional)Step 3
- defining multiple display types (optional); Step 3 (a)
- overriding the default values (optional); Creating views
- a summary; Summary; Chapter 4: Creating a Teacher Blog; Installing the text editor; Uploading and enabling CKEditor; Setting the proper text formats; Assigning user rights via roles; Understanding roles and how they work; Creating content types for the teacher blog; The blog post content type; Adding fields and assigning a taxonomy; Assigning permissions; Hey! Why not use the blog module?