Drupal 6 Social Networking Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Drupal and Social Networking
• Social networking
• Why create a social network instead of joining an existing one?
• Improve business
• Enable communication
• Provide a service
• So why create a social network?
• DinoSpace!
• What is a CMS?
• What is Drupal?
• Drupal as a social networking platform
• Installing Drupal
• Requirements
• Download
• Installation
• Configuring Drupal
• Actions
• Administration theme
• Clean URLs
• Date and time
• Error reporting
• File system
• Image toolkit
• Input formats
• Logging and alerts
• Performance
• Site information
• Site maintenance
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Preparing Drupal for a Social Networking Site
• How Drupal works
• An abstract framework
• Nodes
• Content flags
• Collaboration
• Terminology
• Administering Drupal: an overview
• Logging in
• User management
• Access rules
• Permissions
• Roles
• User settings
• Users
• Content management
• Comments
• Content
• Content Types
• Post settings
• RSS publishing
• Taxonomy
• Site building
• Blocks
• Menus
• Modules
• Themes
• Site configuration
• Reports
• Recent log entries
• Top 'access denied' errors
• Top 'page not found' errors
• Available updates
• Status report final
• Planning our site
• Static content
• Grouping content
• Starting to build our site
• Taxonomy!
• Creating the vocabulary
• Creating terms and tags for our vocabulary
• Creating another vocabulary—free tags
• Creating content
• Summary

• Chapter 3: User Content: Contributions, Forums, and Blogs
• Our site
• User roles: an important note
• Drupal modules
• Comments
• Comments within Dino Space
• Forums
• Planning
• Creating and managing forums
• Creating a forum topic
• Taxonomies
• Planning: How will roles fit in?
• Blogs
• Blog menu
• Viewing blogs
• Using the blog
• Blog API
• Posting a blog entry from Microsoft Word
• Collaborative writing
• Creating a book
• Creating pages in the book
• Permissions and roles
• Why not grant all permissions?
• Polls
• Roles
• Contributions in the form of pages
• Permissions and roles
• Uploaded files/attachments
• Automatically generated content
• Feed aggregator menu
• Viewing the feed in action
• Cron
• Social aggregation
• Download the module
• Install and enable the module
• Configure the module
• Using the module
• Roles
• Anonymous role permissions
• Authenticated users
• Creating the additional roles
• Contributors
• Moderators
• Power contributors
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Users and Profiles
• What are we going to do and why?
• Install the modules
• Users, roles, and permissions
• Users
• Viewing/searching/sorting/filtering
• Creating a user
• Editing
• Roles
• Permissions
• Adding special properties to user profiles
• Module overview
• Extending our users' profiles
• Single-line text fields
• Multi-line text fields
• Date field
• List selection field
• Free form list field
• Web address field
• Editing our profile
• About you
• About your dinosaur
• Tracking user activity
• Settings and rules
• Access rules
• Blocking email domains
• Preventing swear words in our user's usernames
• Checking rules
• User settings
• User registration settings
• User email settings
• Picture settings
• Blog themes
• Enabling themes
• Using the blog themes module
• Expanding on this feature
• Open ID
• User already exists
• User does not exist
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Enabling User Interaction
• Dino Space: a review
• Installing the modules
• Relationships
• Planning
• Creating our relationships
• Settings
• General settings
• Email notifications
• Elaborations
• Messages
• Permissions
• Relationships in action
• Default relationship
• Creating a relationship with another user
• My relationships
• User activities
• Permissions
• Activities in action
• Public list
• Friends list
• Settings
• Profile comments with the Guestbook module
• Settings
• Permissions
• Site-wide guestbook
• User guestbooks
• Viewing guestbooks
• Contacting users
• User contact forms
• Site-wide contact form
• Creating the contact form categories
• Adding information to the top of the form
• Enabling the contact form in the menu
• Taking the content form for a spin
• Groups
• Groups for Dino Space
• Organic Groups module
• Create group content type
• Configure page content type
• Enabling the block
• Creating a group
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Communicating with our Users
• Getting started
• The modules
• A look back
• Modules
• Communicating on an individual basis
• Inactive users
• Communicating with individuals publicly
• Mailing lists
• How to send an email to all our users?
• HTML emails
• Legalities
• Throttling
• Third-Party Services
• PHPList
• Constant contact
• Google Groups
• Direct contact
• The address module
• Users perspective
• Administrators perspective
• Content blocks
• Creating a content block for anonymous users
• Theme customizations for communication
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Improving our Network with Custom Modules
• Our module
• Drupal's modular system
• A module
• Useful resources
• Creating our module
• Content types
• New content types
• Google Maps
• API key and the JavaScript files
• Template files
• node-map.tpl.php
• node-venue.php
• Module files
• Directories and locations
• .info files
• .module files
• .install files
• Putting everything together
• Installing the modules
• Creating a map
• Adding a venue
• Seeing the module in action
• Useful APIs
• GMap
• Facebook
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Designing our Site
• Drupal themes
• Themes and our users
• Pre-installed themes
• Bluemarine
• Chameleon
• Garland
• Marvin
• Minnelli
• Pushbutton
• Contributed themes
• Installing contributed themes
• Customizing the default theme
• Color scheme
• Custom color sets
• Color set preview
• Toggle display
• Logo image design
• Shortcut icon settings
• Global settings
• Creating a theme: The basics
• Theme structure
• Info file
• Template files
• Template.php
• Logo and screenshot
• Other files for themes
• Getting started
• Info file
• Template files
• Template.php
• Logo and screenshot
• In action
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Deploying and Maintaining our Social Networking Site
• Installing the modules
• Security
• Security announcements
• Securing our site
• CAPTCHA
• Mollom
• Legal
• Passwords
• Deploying
• Hosting and domain names
• Getting the site online
• Setting up the database
• Uploading the site
• Changing the database settings
• Maintenance
• Cron
• Performing maintenance
• Upgrading Drupal
• Reports
• How can these help?
• Backing up
• Backing up with cPanel
• Restoring
• Restoring within cPanel
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Promoting our Site
• Online advertising
• Buying advertisement space
• Pay Per Click Advertisements
• Advertisement networks provided by search engines
• Newsletter advertising
• Caution: Search Engine Penalization
• Newsletters
• Marketing materials
• Social marketing
• Viral marketing
• Twitter
• Social bookmarking
• Search Engine Optimization
• On-site SEO
• Meta
• Sitemap and webmaster tools
• Links
• Up-to-date content
• Off-site SEO
• Monetizing your site
• Summary

• Appendix: Installing WAMP
• Installing WampServer
• Downloading WampServer
• Installing WampServer
• WampServer overview
• Configuring WampServer
• GD2
• Rewrite Module
• Summary

• Index