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Revision as of 17:56, 24 March 2017
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| 00:01 | Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on Adding Functionalities using Modules. |
| 00:08 | In this tutorial, we will familiarize ourselves with Modules.
We will learn about Book Module and Forum Module. |
| 00:19 | To record this tutorial, I am using:
Ubuntu Linux Operating System Drupal 8 and Firefox Web browser. You can use any web browser as per your choice. |
| 00:35 | Modules and themes are the primary way to extend or add features to a Drupal website. |
| 00:42 | Drupal offers a complete content management system. But sometimes we need more and that is where modules come in. |
| 00:53 | Modules add features to our Drupal website. There are three kinds of modules in Drupal. |
| 00:59 | There are Core Modules. These are the modules that come with Drupal, by default. |
| 01:06 | They can be turned off. But never go into the core area of a website using ftp, for instance, and remove these modules. |
| 01:15 | They will just get re-installed again, whenever we update Drupal. |
| 01:22 | These Core Modules are designed for the basic functionality of Drupal. |
| 01:28 | Then, there are Contributed Modules. We have already installed one; we installed Devel earlier. |
| 01:38 | A Contributed Module is a module that someone in the community contributes.And, it is available at drupal.org. |
| 01:49 | The final kind of module is a Custom Module. |
| 01:52 | This is where we just have some specific functionality that we need for our project. This module is not available and nobody else thought of it, up to this point. |
| 02:07 | But, very obviously, we either have to build it ourselves or pay someone else to do it for us. |
| 02:15 | There are many different modules available for Drupal. |
| 02:20 | Over here, at drupal.org, we can see that there are 32,458 modules already. |
| 02:30 | Modules do a variety of things. |
| 02:33 | One module may add a field to the Content type. Another module may add a complete Voting System for our entire website. |
| 02:45 | But we can only use a module that is compatible with the version of Drupal we’re on. |
| 02:51 | And so, we will always need to filter our modules here, at drupal.org/project/modules. |
| 03:03 | When we filter them, they are always listed in the order of popularity. |
| 03:09 | On the first three or four pages, are the most popular modules. Which means, they’re the most used and often they’re the most helpful. |
| 03:21 | To summarize, Modules add features and there are many modules available for free, at drupal.org. |
| 03:30 | Let us open our website which we created earlier. Click on Extend and then scroll down. |
| 03:38 | Here we have some of the modules that come with Drupal, by default. But they are not already turned ON. |
| 03:48 | Let’s enable the 'Book' module. |
| 03:53 | Scroll down a little bit further and we’ll find the 'Forum' module. Let’s turn that one ON too. |
| 04:01 | We can turn two completely separate modules on, at the same time. |
| 04:07 | Scroll down to the bottom and click on Install. |
| 04:12 | The Book module and Forum module are two very, very different types of modules. |
| 04:19 | But they both create brand new Content types. And, they bring added functionality to Drupal by extending it. |
| 04:29 | Drupal modules do very different things, even though they are all modules. |
| 04:35 | When you want to add new features to your site
where it’s a whole new functionality or even just a new Field type |
| 04:45 | you are adding a module to extend the Drupal core. |
| 04:50 | Now, let’s click on Structure and Content types. We see that there are two new Content Types here - a Book page and a Forum topic. |
| 05:03 | Check the Book page Content type by clicking Content and then Add content. |
| 05:11 | The Book page creates a book on our site, complete with chapters, navigations and even a block that can go anywhere we want. |
| 05:24 | Click on Book page. Now let’s type the Title as "Our Drupal Manual". |
| 05:30 | In the Body, let’s type: "This is the beginning of our Drupal manual". |
| 05:36 | On our Publication settings, we have a new setting. |
| 05:41 | Click on BOOK OUTLINE and change None to Create a new book.
Then click Save and publish. |
| 05:55 | Notice a new link over here, named Add child page. At drupal.org, click on Documentation. |
| 06:06 | Now, when we click on Understanding Drupal, we can see the Book module. |
| 06:12 | Over here, on the right hand side, is the navigation. Here, at the end of the page, is some more navigation which is automatically generated. |
| 06:24 | On the left hand side, are the links. |
| 06:29 | Click on Drupal concept. Notice we have navigation here. |
| 06:34 | And our navigation on the right hand side has also expanded to show us what’s coming up next. |
| 06:42 | We can build complete and complex user guides or any kind of books we want using the Book module. |
| 06:51 | Let’s go back to our website and click on Add child page. |
| 06:57 | Type the Title as "Installing Drupal" and Body as- "This is where we explain how to install Drupal". |
| 07:08 | Notice that it is automatically put in the Drupal manual that we are creating.
This happens simply because we clicked on Create Book page. |
| 07:20 | Click Save and publish. |
| 07:23 | We can see that the navigation is automatically generated for us. |
| 07:29 | Click Up. It takes us to the main level. Recall - I mentioned earlier that there is a block available with this. |
| 07:41 | Click on Structure and Block layout. |
| 07:45 | And, in the Sidebar first, let’s place the block.
Click Place block and we can see here - we have the Book navigation menu. |
| 07:56 | Click Place block, then click Save block. |
| 08:01 | Click Save blocks and go back to our site. Here is our Book navigation, Our Drupal Manual and Installing Drupal. |
| 08:14 | This will collapse and grow as needed, when we add new child pages. |
| 08:21 | Again I am reminding you- Go to drupal.org, browse through the user manual or documentation that uses the Book module to make this happen. |
| 08:35 | It’s really powerful if this is the kind of content you need on your site. You are not restricted to the title and the body here. |
| 08:47 | You can add fields to the Content type that comes with the Book module. |
| 08:53 | If a website really benefits from having a forum, then the Forum module is really helpful. |
| 09:01 | Click on Content and then on Add content. |
| 09:07 | The Forum module actually creates a new Content type called Forum topic. |
| 09:13 | These are field able, which means we are not restricted to just the title and the body. |
| 09:21 | Click on Forum topic. Enter a new forum topic, say, "Learning Drupal". In the Forums, put it in the General discussion. |
| 09:35 | Then enter the body - "Hi, I’m just learning Drupal. Can someone help me?". |
| 09:42 | Click Save and publish. |
| 09:45 | Now, because it is in the Forum Content type, one responds through adding comments. |
| 09:53 | Let’s add a comment -"Sure I can help". "You should just read everything at Drupalville!". And then click Save. |
| 10:07 | Since we are logged in as the super user, these are automatically approved. |
| 10:14 | If we click on General discussion, we have one general discussion. |
| 10:21 | Forum topic called "Learning Drupal", with 1 comment. |
| 10:25 | Now, if we click on the comment, we can continue to add comments. In this manner, we can create all kinds of forums. |
| 10:37 | Let’s click on the word Forums. |
| 10:41 | You can click here to add a new forum topic that will be in the general discussion. But, as the administrator, you might want more forums apart from this one. |
| 10:55 | So, let’s do that. Click on Structure and then on Forums. Here’s where we can add new forums and new containers. |
| 11:07 | If I want to add a forum, I can do that. And I can reorder them in anyway I want. |
| 11:18 | Let’s come back to Content and then on Add content and a Forum topic.
Now I have a choice of putting it in other forums. |
| 11:31 | This is how we can maintain a nice forum like this, on our Drupal website. |
| 11:38 | With this, we come to the end of our tutorial. Let us summarize.
In this tutorial, we have learnt about: Introduction to Modules Book Module and Forum Module. |
| 12:05 | This video is adapted from Acquia and OSTraining and revised by Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay. |
| 12:16 | The video at this link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. Please download and watch it. |
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| 12:35 | Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by NMEICT, Ministry of Human Resource Development and NVLI, Ministry of Culture, Government of India. |
| 12:49 | This is Calvin Nikil Tomy, signing off. Thanks for joining. |
