Learn Drupal CMS & plugin development

Training Delivery Options

Instructor-led Online

Best for people with limited time in the day

No hassle, no wastage of time commuting

Clear out all your doubts interactively

Take classes from locations anywhere in the world

People with moving jobs can take this class
Self Paced Online

Great for those slow learners who master the subject after learning

Allow you a whale of a time to practice

Defer next topic till you have mastered previous one

This is a great option if you find it difficult to find time

No hassle of commute

It's good if you are a Busy-bee
Regular Classroom

This is for you if you like learning with others

If you want to the get the feel of things

If you have the time to come and learn

You would get to learn face to face

Interact with other students
Corporate Training

For a firm wanting trained employees

Corporate training is a good to retain employees

Increases skill sets so that same employees work for variety of projects

No new hiring required

A great alternative to corporate jaunts

The cost per employee is low

Course Features

Industry professionals as Trainers - No Academic trainers
Well researched advanced course content created by Industry professionals
Free 100+ Drupal videos
300(+) Assignments
Free access to Text based learning resources - 400(+) PDFs | 500(+) PPTs
Live web design project
1000(+) Recruitment partners across Maharashtra
Technical & HR Interview preparations
Exam + Industry recognised Certificate
Unlimited Job calls

Overview

Drupal is a content management framework written in PHP for managing websites. Drupal forms the backend of 2.1% websites the world over. Moreover, this framework is widely used for knowledge management, business collaborations and as a web application framework.

Drupal is used by all kinds of websites, personal blogs, government websites, political movements and parties, social organizations, business organizations and social sites. Being open-source and a huge community of developers mean that it is always on the cutting edge.

There has been a new upgrade launched on 6th January 2014. There is also a marketplace for Drupal project which help with design, development etc. As such the use of Drupal can only grow in upcoming years.

The course offered by TLabs covers all aspects of this dynamic software and teaches the student on making websites as it is done in the industry.

Features of the courses offered

General concept of Drupal and specific concepts that are widely applied.
Focus on the latest and upcoming versions
Emphasis on hands-on-training

Goals of the Course

You should be able to configure any site
Should be able to handle themes and contents
User administration and its setup
Should be able to handle site structure and modules

Who all can learn

For all those people who want to be Drupal developers. The course is also fit for those professional developers who are hungry to learn more on the different Content Management System.

Course syllabus

Drupal Administration

What is a CMS? What is a social site/network?
Looking at a basic Drupal page – what does it include? (header, blocks, links, comments....)
Basic Site configuration
- Site-information
- Date and time
- Files uploads
- Clean-urls
- Site maintenance
- Input formats

Themes (concepts, switching)
Content
- Content submission
- Creating new content types with CCK
- CCK add-ons and field types
- WYSIWYG in Drupal (currently teaching TinyMCE integration)
- Taxonomy
- Views
- Working with media – images, audio, video
- Searching for content
- Comments

Users administration
- Creating roles
- Registration
- Editing users' details and blocking users

Site's structure
- Modules (choose, download, install, configure)
- Access Control
- Menus
- Blocks

Installing Drupal
Installing new modules and themes

Installing Drupal
Installing new modules and themes

Drupal modules development

Introduction:
How is Drupal built?
- What is "Core"
- Drupal's folder structure and why its important.
- The ever important sites folder
- Modules, sites/all/modules, sites/mysite.com/modules
- Which one is used? How do you know?
- Drupal's module weighting and selection process
- Basic structure of a module - .module, .info, .install files

Tools and Rules
- Drupal coding standards
- Demonstration of api.drupal.org and the API module
- Writing secure code
- Tricks of the trade
- Devel and coder module

Hooks
- We fishing or writing code?
- Overview of what a hook is
- Demonstration of a hook
- Simple module implementing hook_nodeapi and drupal_set_message($op).
- Naming conventions
- Introduction to few important hooks: init, menu, nodeapi, block, user
- How to create your own hooks for other modules

Database
- What if you need custom storage?
- Adding a table to Drupal's DB
- Using the .install file for installation and updating

Forms API
- FAPI, uugggh another acronym don't be scared FAPI is good
- Why use an API? writing forms HTML is really easy!
- A simple form
- Validating the form
- Submitting the form
- Hook_form_alter() hooks for forms! WOW, can you feel the power!?!

Custom nodes
- How to create a custom node
- Why not just use CCK? A comparison
- A node module's tacklebox hook_load, hook_update, hook_delete, etc.

Theming
- The theme_ function and when to use
- Print vs. return

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Upcoming Batches

Batch Name	Commencing Date
DPL/Bt1	1 Jul
DPL/Bt2	8 Jul
DPL/Bt3	15 Jul * Only Few Seats Left!
DPL/Bt4	22 Jul * Only Few Seats Left!
DPL/Bt5	29 Jul
Lane no.5, Prabhat Road Pune, Maharashtra 411004 India

Custom Batches - Just in case you are unable to attend the scheduled batch, Custom batch times are also available.
Give a missed call on +91 898 300 2500

Customized Corporate Private Training: We deliver all our courses as Corporate Training as well - if you are a group interested in the course, this option may be more advantageous for you. We are based in Pune.

Your Job Profile

Once you are through with this course, you will be able to work thoroughly with Drupal. As a Drupal software developer you will get to work on some of the most challenging online projects.

Custom programming and web application development for Drupal
Design and build websites, intranets, knowledge and content management systems
Be responsible for technical, support and maintenance engagements

Where to next?

Now that you have done PHP course, you have various choices before you. Nowadays there is demand from the Industry for developers of various PHP Frameworks & JavaScript Frameworks like