CiviCRM for Drupal Developers, Designers, and Site Builders - DrupalCamp Colorado 6/30/2013
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This document summarizes a presentation by Kevin Reynen titled "CiviCRM for Developers, Designers, and Site Builders" given at DrupalCamp Colorado. It discusses Kevin's background and experience with CiviCRM and Drupal. It provides an overview of Drupal modules that integrate with CiviCRM like Webform, Groups, and Events. It also covers how CiviCRM uses the Smarty template engine differently than Drupal's PHPTemplate engine. The presentation compares using Drupal, Salesforce, or RedHen distributions with CiviCRM and discusses challenges of major upgrades. It demonstrates CiviCRM integrated with both Drupal and WordPress.
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CiviCRM for Drupal Developers, Designers, and Site Builders - DrupalCamp Colorado 6/30/2013
- 1. CiviCRM for Developers, Designers, and Site Builder DrupalCamp Colorado – 6/30
- 2. Kevin Reynen ● @kreynen on Drupal.org, CiviCRM.org, Twitter
- 3. Kevin Reynen ● @kreynen on Drupal.org, CiviCRM.org, Twitter ● google.com/search?q=kevin+drupal+civicrm
- 4. Kevin Reynen ● @kreynen on Drupal.org, CiviCRM.org, Twitter ● google.com/search?q=kevin+drupal+civicrm ● google.com/search?q=beardcast
- 7. A Little Help Hosting
- 8. A Little Help Hosting
- 9. A Little Help Hosting
- 10. A Little Help Hosting
- 11. A Little Help Hosting A LOT of Help Hosting
- 13. February 2007 December 2009 March 2012
- 15. 8.9MB ● TinyMCE ● CKEditor ● DOMPDF ● IDS ● JQuery ● JQuery UI ● Jstree By Removing These Libraries...
- 16. Why?
- 19. Don't Hack Core
- 21. Override It
- 22. modules - book - pole - block - color - contact profiles - standard - civicrm_starter - modules - civicrm - contrib - views - ctools - captcha - features
- 23. modules - book - pole - block - color - contact profiles - standard - civicrm_starter sites - all - modules - contrib - views - themes
- 24. modules - book - pole - block - color - contact profiles - standard - civicrm_starter sites - all - modules - contrib - views - themes
- 27. Process of updating Drupal and CiviCRM the same...
- 28. Unless you use Pantheon
- 30. ● CiviCRM Webform ● CiviCRM Group and Membership Sync ● CiviCRM Multiday Event Drupal Modules that Make Life w/ CiviCRM Easier
- 31. Synchronize Data Between the Systems
- 32. ● CiviCRM Cron (CiviCRM Scheduled Jobs) ● Views ● Rules ● Features CiviCRM Drupal Modules that Make Life w/ CiviCRM Easier
- 33. Module Demos
- 34. ● Extended... with Extensions ● Hooks and tpls to override ● CiviCRM uses Drupal Coding Style Ways CiviCRM is Similar
- 35. ● Extended... with Extensions ● Hooks and tpls to override ● CiviCRM uses Drupal Coding Style Ways CiviCRM is Similar
- 38. ● Self contained (same code works with WordPress) ● Bigger than Drupal ● More Functionality “Out of the Box” ● Must configure location of Extensions and Custom theme... not automatically detected Ways CiviCRM is Different
- 39. ● Inline editing ● Upgrades vs. Migrations ● More Security Force HTTPS, IDS, Core Payment Gateways ● Make It Happens (QuickBook Integration) ● Workflows and relations that make sense to people managing Contacts/Clients/Constituents ● Wall separating data from display Why Different can be Better
- 41. Smarty Syntax is different that PHPTemplate… but so is Twig
- 42. Smarty Template Engine Data → → Display
- 43. Smarty Template Engine <?php print $foo ?> {$foo}
- 44. Smarty Template Engine <?php print $foo['bar'] ?> {$foo.bar}
- 45. Smarty Template Engine {foreach $foo as $bar} ... {/foreach}
- 47. Smarty Demo
- 48. Starter Kit vs. Product Distributions
- 49. Drupal + CiviCRM = Pros: Most Features, Integration and Customization Possible... Non-profit workflows out of the box Cons: Not 100% Drupal,
- 50. Drupal + SaleForce = Pros: Stable, lot's of additional SF apps Cons: SaaS, lock in, cost, $$ focus
- 51. Drupal + RedHen =Pros: A lot of Integration and Customization Possible Cons: $$$ focus, upgrades, documentation,
- 52. *Major Upgrades to Distributions are Hard
- 53. Open Atrium in D6?
- 54. Drupal Commerce 1.x → 2.x?
- 55. Will D8's .yml configuration fix this?
- 56. CiviCRM Often Introduces new Features BEFORE Drupal
- 58. WordPress Demo
- 59. Why choose just one?
- 60. D7 ← CiviCRM → WP D6