Learn Drupal in New York, New York

This course builds on the skills and concepts taught in Drupal Introduction.
Students will practice working with URLs, managing permissions and spam,
creating blocks and panels, working with taxonomy, attaching media, and
much more.

Drupal 6.x training course is a clear path to a Drupal 6.x install with basic configuration of some core and community contributed modules. There will be audience Q + A sessions during and after the course.

Dealing with Date and Time-zone
Date format
Date widgets (pop-up, drop-down, text, etc...)
Showing events depends on the time-zone
Automatic time-zone (depend on the visitor location)
Recurrent events
Irregular events (like Monday 6:30 to 7:30, Thursday 3:15 to 8:00, etc..)
Event duration
Calendar
Calendar module
iCal export
Showing events on Google calendar from external systems
Time-line module
Resource Management
Managing Resources (Merci)
Signing up to the event
Booking and tentative booking
Handling cancellation
Notifying user about changes
Organic Groups and Events
Event Evaluation

Seo basics
Business Analysis & Research
Keywords
Target Group
Website Structure
HTML basics
Tags used for SEO
Links
Drupal SEO Basics
Categorization
Clean Urls & Paths
Avoiding Duplicate Content
Correct Page Titles
Better 404 pages
Meta Tags
Link Attrributes
XML, Page & Google News Sitemaps
Site Verification
Service Links
User Statistics
RSS Feeds
Drupal SEO Advanced
Advanced Automated & Semi-Automated Crosslinks
Related Content
Semantic Content (automatically create rich semantic metadata for your content)
Other
Webmaster Central
Google Adwords, Trends, Insights
SEO Tools

Panels and other module related to theming
Structure of a Drupal Page
Sourcing Themes
Installing Themes
Modifiying an exisiting Theme
Theme engines
PHPTemplate Engine
Theming Blocks and Content Types
Template suggestions
Coverting theme function to a template file
Cascading Style Sheets
Overiding existing Style Sheets
Creating a new theme from scratch
Subthemes
Devel Module
Firefox tools
Plugins - Firebug and Webdeveloper

Drupal Core
Drupal Architecture
Inversion of Control (IoC)
Drupal Core Modules
Menu Creation Process
Drupal Modules
Creating Own Module
Info files
Module files
Install files
Updating exiting module
Disabling and uninstalling modules
Hooks
Core Hooks
Modules Hooks
Defining Own Hooks
Implementing Basic Hooks
Database Abstraction Layer
Executing queries
Inserting, updating and deleting rows
Forms
Create a Form
Validate a Form
Multi Form Sites
Add and modifying validation of existing form
Overriding default submit functionality
Theming
Theming Engines
Using default theme functions
Overriding theme function in a theme
PHP Template
tpl Files
Variables
theme Function
CSS Inclusion
Caches
CacheAPI
Utilizing Caches in Modules

Drupal views overview
Creating a view
Filtering a view
Exposing filters
Passing arguments to a view
Views and relationships
Displaying data from two nodes in one row (e.g. page title and authors date of birth)
Using relationships in filters
Analysing and Searching Data
Views Bonus Pack
Views Fast Search
View Calc
Dynamic Reports
Filtering date range
Charts
Summaries, sum, average, min, max, etc...
Calculated fields
Cross table reports
Exporting and importing views

Exporting a view
Importing a view
Hard coding a view in your module
Exporting views data
Exporting data to Microsoft Excel (CVS)
Exporting data to Microsoft Word document and other formats

What is New in Drupal 6
Architecture changes
New hooks
Form API changes
Drupal Core
Drupal Architecture
Inversion of Control (IoC)
Drupal Core Modules
Menu Creation Process
Drupal Modules
Creating Own Module
Module name, directory and group
Module dependencies
Installation scripts (hook_install, hook_uninstall)
Updates (hook_update)
Database schema changes during an update
Hooks
Core Hooks
Modules Hooks
Defining Own Hooks
Implementing Basic Hooks
Database Abstraction Layer
Forms
Create a Form
Validate a Form
Multi Form Sites
Theming
Theming Engines
PHP Template
tpl Files
Variables
theme Function
CSS Inclusion
Caches
CacheAPI
Utilizing Caches in Modules

Understanding Drupal Design
Drupal Core Design
Module (package) dependencies
Node Abstract Class and derived content
Taxonomy Term and Vocabulary Class
User Class
Drupal Contributions Modules
Modelling CCK Content Type
Generating CCK Content Type From a UML Diagram
Class Diagram
Data Types and Stereotypes
Designing Own Content Types
Inheritance
Treating Content Related Functions (node_load/save, user_load, etc...) as Methods
Reducing Dependencies
Generating Package Dependencies Diagrams
Reducing Module Dependencies
Reducing Content Type Dependencies (association, aggregation and composition)
Changing Dependency Direction
Creating Links Modules to Brake Hard Dependencies
Code Generation
Generation Drupal Code Based on Diagrams

What Drupal can and cannot do out of the box?
How to extend Drupal profiles
How to put a couple of pieces on a single page?
How to aggregate data
Adding extra fields to a node with CCK
Standard field types (Text, Number, Node and User Reference)
Widgets (Checkbox, Select List, Textfield)
Contributed CCK extension modules like email fields, date fields, etc....
Views
Creating simple views with Views UI module
Overriding views
Views type and available extensions
Dealing with relationships (nodereference and userreference fields)
Panels
Creating pages with multiple content
Panels basic options and definitions
Panels displays, panel pages, panel nodes
Mini panels
Panels arguments
Panels context
Creating Master/details pages
Making smart sites by adjusting them to user location, language, gender, age, etc...

Social Networking in Drupal Overview
Drupal as a Social Networking platform
Open Source and Commercial solutions
User Profiles
Modules related to user profiles and their extensions
Profile Counters and Recent Visitors
Commenting on user profile
Keeping fields private or visible only to friends or certain groups
User registration process
Terms and Conditions
Images and Photo Galleries
Comparing existing solutions (gallery, acidfree and other)
Forum
Core forum module and its limitations
Form module alternatives
Subforum, locking threads and permissions
Forum performance
Buddylist/Friends
Buddylist and Friends modules
Friend’,s reciprocation
Organic Groups
Organic Groups functionality
Organic Groups and nodeaccess
Events
Events module
Repeat events
Calendar module
Private Messaging
Private messaging module and alternatives
Blog
Blog module and alternatives
Search Facility
Indexing
Moderation
Content Rating and Voting
Tags
Feedback and Contact forms
Sending emails to users
WYSIWG Editors
Dash Board and User Sites