1. Overview of REALNEO Technologies
REALNEO Web Platform Architecture
Overview of Drupal

2. Overview of REALNEO Technologies
REALNEO Web Platform Architecture
Overview of Drupal

3. REALNEO Web Platform Architecture
Web Platform is Unix Server
Database-Driven Web Site
MySQL Database
PHP Hypertext Scripting Language

4. REALNEO Web Platform Architecture
Database-Driven Web Site
Provides separation of site design and content
Users can easily add content without having to know HTML
Site design not affected by user input

5. REALNEO Web Platform Architecture
MySQL Database
MySQL is an Open-Source Relational Database Management System
Fast, Reliable, and easy to use
Supports all essential web technologies
Scalable to high-volume web sites
Used on 20% of worldwide web sites

6. REALNEO Web Platform Architecture
PHP Hypertext Scripting Language
Open source, server-side, HTML embedded scripting language
Used to create dynamic Web pages
Functionality similar to Microsoft ASP
Used on 20% of worldwide web sites

7. From: LAMP, MySQL/PHP Database driven website design and development, and the List-Detail-Post paradigm. Part I By David Rolston

8. Overview of REALNEO Technologies
REALNEO Web Platform Architecture
Overview of Drupal

9. Overview of Drupal What is Drupal? Basic Features of Drupal
Why use Drupal?

10. Overview of Drupal What is Drupal? Basic Features of Drupal
Why use Drupal?

11. What is Drupal?
Drupal is the product of an open source project devoted to the development of a dynamic web site platform.
Drupal is a "content management system". This means it's a system for managing website content--like articles, photos, or other files.

12. Overview of Drupal What is Drupal? Basic Features of Drupal
Why use Drupal?

13. Basic Features of Drupal
User Management
Drupal allows individual users to ["register" Drupal user registration and personal account information].
By requiring users to register, Drupal allows for ["private messaging" Private Messaging & Notification] and other forms of private communication with other registered users.
Registered users can be given specific rights and permissions. This adds an extra layer of security to the system, by allowing the administrator to pick and choose which individuals can view and edit specific information.

14. Basic Features of Drupal
Weblog
Allow communication between members of the community.
Allow the entire community to view and respond with their own thoughts, ["comments" Creating and editing nodes and comments], and ideas.

15. Basic Features of Drupal
Discussion Based Community
Members of the community can reply to weblogs or posts made by other users. This ability can also be expanded to include comments and possible revisions for information stored in the content management system.
Forums Module enables users to create discussion boards, empowering individuals and gives them a unique voice.
Users from all over the world can have conversations over certain material, while still being able to post at their convenience.
Postings allow for the whole revision process of projects and information to be shown. This means that users can become involved in a project at any given time throughout the revision process.

16. Basic Features of Drupal
Discussion Based Community
Members of the community can reply to weblogs or posts made by other users. This ability can also be expanded to include comments and possible revisions for information stored in the content management system.
Forums Module enables users to create discussion boards, empowering individuals and gives them a unique voice.
Users from all over the world can have conversations over certain material, while still being able to post at their convenience.
Postings allow for the whole revision process of projects and information to be shown. This means that users can become involved in a project at any given time throughout the revision process.

17. Basic Features of Drupal
Locale or internationalization support
Drupal provides a framework to setup a multi-lingual web site.
Albanian
Arabic
Basque
Catalan
Chinese (traditional)
Chinese Simplified
Czech
Dutch
Esperanto
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Portuguese (Portugal)
Romanian
Russian
Spanish
Swedish

18. Basic Features of Drupal
Locale or internationalization support Drupal provides a framework to setup a multi-lingual web site.
Albanian
Arabic
Basque
Catalan
Chinese (traditional)
Chinese Simplified
Czech
Dutch
Esperanto
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Portuguese (Portugal)
Romanian
Russian
Spanish
Swedish

19. Overview of Drupal What is Drupal? Basic Features of Drupal
Why use Drupal?

20. Why use Drupal? Drupal Mission Statement:
“Building on and realizing relevant standards and open source technologies, Drupal supports and enhances the potential of the Internet as a medium where diverse and geographically-separated individuals and groups can come together and collectively produce and share rich bases of information and expression.”

21. Why use Drupal? Strong focus on security
Administrators can control the flow of information into the content management system.
User accountability by tracking user login history and creating an audit trail.
Result is a moderated public forum encouraging the free exchange of ideas while maintaining user privacy and accountability.

22. Why use Drupal? Drupal has a solid track record
Based on established, scalable web technologies.
Regulated by Open Source Initiative (OSI) Certification requirements.
Since creation in 2001, implemented on many sites worldwide, including high-volume sites.