Eight Days Mega Drupal Training at Information Technology University, LAHORE

Eight Days(56 hours)

Lahore

18 November, 2017

Course Fee

18000

Course Level

Beginners

Curriculum

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This training covers many different aspects of Drupal from zero to the masterly level. Many elements of Drupal's day to day task are part of this training enabling audience to build and maintain full fledged Drupal Websites.

Information Technology University Lahore, in collaboration with Drupak(PVT.)Ltd will be hosting this training. Registered students should deposit their fee at ITU for their seats to be reserved.

Who is this training for?

For Students wanting to start a career in Drupal
Webmasters of Universities and other organizations willing to empower their websites with Drupal
Company Owners and business personnel willing to maintain websites of their companies.
Freelancers to make a shift to Drupal Freelancing also.

Pre-requisites

There are no pre-requisites as such but basic knowledge of HTML & CSS will be a big plus. For Drupal module development days, PHP will be a must.

Curriculum

Day 1

Introduction to Drupal
Installing Drupal
Understanding Content in Drupal
Creating and Managing Content
Creating Diﬀerent types of content with Custom Content types
Categorizing content with Taxonomy
Understanding Blocks in Drupal
Menu Management
User Management and Permissions
Creating Blogs in Drupal
Creating Forums in Drupal

Day 2

Drupal's Magical Views Module
Understanding Views interface
Creating lists of data with views
Creating a slideshow with views Slideshow module
Styling views and views slideshow
Paragraph Module in Drupal
Understanding Drupal's Panels Module
Creating a custom frontpage with Panels module
Panelizer Module Ÿ Display Suite module
Understanding Drupal's Context module
Understanding Drupal's Rules module
Drupal's Webform Module for Surveys
Drupal's Quicktabs Module

Day 3

Theme Development

Introduction to theming basics
Preparing a site for theming
Enabling themes and theme settings
Introduction to Bootstrap
Translating a design into a Drupal theme
Creating the info ﬁle and adding CSS
Customizing the page template
Adding regions to the page template
Customizing the node template
Creating dynamic templates for speciﬁc node
Using the theme development module

Day 4

Adding JavaScript to a theme
Tour of popular Page Template variables
Adding a screenshot to your theme
Creating Drupal Content and views to be used
Conclusion to theming basics
Introduction to Advanced Theming in Drupal
Altering output generated by Drupal

Day 5

Building Shopping Carts in Drupal

Installing Drupal Commerce
Products & Product Variations
Pricing Rules and Discounts
Creating Diﬀerent types of Products
Shopping Cart Ÿ Customizing Product Displays.
Checkout Process
Power of Rules in Drupal Commerce

Days 6 7

CASE STUDY Creating a University Website in Drupal

Understanding and Analyzing Requirements
Choosing a theme for the website
Creating the Data structure (Content Types, Taxonomy etc)
Creating Content Ÿ Creating Views of content
Styling Views Creating and styling a front page slideshow via Views Slideshow module
Creating users to control site content
Creating a Teacher's blog
Creating a student's forum
Creating a sub website for every department of the university
Creating an online admissions section
Creating an online recruitment section on the university website
Putting it all together Ÿ Launching the website

Day 8

Drupal Module Development

Build a .info and .module ﬁles to set up your module.
What is Drupal hook and uses.
Write hook_menu and hook_permissions functions
Set up an admin settings form and use hook_form_alter
Create database tables using hook_schema and .install ﬁles
Write database queries and Introduction to Entity API Drupal Module Development
Create a custom block via your module
Theme the block and write CSS to style it
Use t function and other sanitization functions to secure your module
Use and create custom Drupal variables
Explore the research functions in the Drupal API- Creating a full ﬂedged Custom module