Drupal 7 Social Networking Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Drupal and Social Networking
Chapter 2: Preparing Drupal for a Social Networking Site
Chapter 3: User Content: Contributions, Forums, and Blogs
Chapter 4: Users and Profiles
Chapter 5: Enabling User Interaction
Chapter 6: Social Seasoning
Chapter 7: Module Development: Rapidly Improve your Social Network
Chapter 8: How We Can Design Our Site
Chapter 9: Communicating with Our Users
Chapter 10: Deploying and Maintaining Your Social Network
Chapter 11: Easing Growing Pains
Chapter 12: Promotion, SEO, User Retention, and Monetization Strategies
Appendix A: Setting up a Local Development Environment
Appendix B: Installed Modules
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Drupal and Social Networking
• Social Networking: An introduction
• Business logic to social networks
• Examples: Businesses making use of existing social networks and their own social networks
• Why not join or use an existing social network?
• Provide a service
• Improve business
• Improve communications
• Existing social networks
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• MySpace
• Twitter
• Drupal
• What is a CMS?
• What is Drupal?
• Drupal as a social networking platform
• Alternatives to Drupal
• Roll your own
• Elgg
• Hybrid approaches
• DinoSpace!
• Installing Drupal
• Requirements
• Download
• Installation
• Extracting the Drupal files
• Creating the database
• Running the Drupal installer
• Configuring Drupal
• People: Account settings
• System: Site information
• Other configuration options
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Preparing Drupal for a Social Networking Site
• How Drupal works
• An abstract framework
• Nodes
• Modules and themes
• Administering Drupal—An overview
• Logging in
• Dashboard
• Content
• Content statuses
• Creating content
• Comments
• Structure
• Blocks
• Content types
• Menus
• Taxonomy
• Appearance
• People
• Permissions
• Roles
• Modules
• Configuration
• Reports
• Help
• Content types and taxonomy: A detailed look
• Creating a new content type
• Adding fields to the content type
• Test content in action!
• Planning our site
• Static content
• Grouping content
• Starting to build our site
• Using taxonomy
• Creating the vocabulary
• Summary

• Chapter 3: User Content: Contributions, Forums, and Blogs
• Our site
• User roles: An important note
• Drupal modules
• Managing comments
• Comments within DinoSpace!
• Forums
• Planning our forum structure
• Creating and managing forums and containers
• Viewing our forums
• Creating a forum topic
• Taxonomies
• Planning: How will roles fit in?
• Setting up and using blogs
• Viewing blogs and the blog menu
• Using the blog
• Collaborative writing
• Creating a book
• Creating pages in the book
• Outline
• Permissions and roles
• Why not grant all permissions?
• Polls
• Adding roles
• Contributions in the form of pages
• Permissions and roles
• Uploaded files
• Roles
• Anonymous role permissions
• Authenticated users
• Additional roles
• Contributors
• Moderators
• Power contributors
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Users and Profiles
• What are we going to do and why?
• Getting set up
• Users, roles, and permissions
• User management
• Users: Viewing, searching, sorting, and filtering
• Creating a user
• Editing a user
• Bulk user operations
• Roles
• Permissions
• Creating customizable user profiles
• Listing your dinosaurs
• Linking to other social network profiles
• Profile in action
• Globally recognized avatars: Enabling Gravatars
• Tracking user activity
• User centric home page
• Account settings
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Enabling User Interaction
• DinoSpace!: A review
• Preparation: Installing the modules
• Relationships
• Planning user relationships
• Managing and creating relationships
• Creating a relationship type
• Creating default relationships
• Settings
• General settings
• Customizing e-mail notifications
• Customizing on-screen messages
• Sharing content
• Other settings
• Permissions
• Relationships in action
• Befriending users
• Approving requests
• Related user activity stream
• A template for each relationship type
• A rule for each relationship type
• Activity stream in action
• Contacting users
• Groups
• Groups for DinoSpace!
• Using the organic groups module
• Creating a group content type
• Configuring content types
• Formatting groups
• Using panels to structure the group page
• Using views to pull in group content
• Creating a group
• Adding content to a group
• Viewing our group
• Commenting on user profiles
• The guestbook module
• What to look out for
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Social Seasoning
• Let's prepare our modules
• Encouraging discussion with Disqus
• Register for Disqus
• Sharing content with AddThis
• Leverage other features
• Like this on Facebook
• Enabling PHP in content blocks
• Like this page
• Creating the block
• Tweet this
• Find us on Facebook
• Latest tweets
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Module Development: Rapidly Improve your Social Network
• Dinosaur-friendly venues
• Useful resources
• Building our module
• Installation files
• Map installer: dino_friendly_places/dfp_map.install
• Venue installer: dino_friendly_places/dfp_venue.install
• Module information files
• Map information file
• Venue information file
• Module files
• Create the map module file
• Venue: no module file required
• Template files
• Map: node--dino_friendly_places_map.tpl.php
• Venue: node--dino_friendly_places_venue.tpl.php
• Module in action
• Install the module
• Creating a map
• Creating a venue
• Viewing a map
• Viewing a venue
• Summary

• Chapter 8: How We Can Design Our Site
• Drupal themes
• Theme management and pre-installed themes
• Bartik
• Garland
• Seven
• Stark
• Contributed themes
• Installing contributed themes
• Customizing the default theme
• Color scheme
• Toggle display
• Logo image
• Shortcut icons
• The basics of creating a theme
• Structure of a theme
• Overriding specific parts of Drupal with a theme
• Creating the .info file
• Rapidly building a theme
• Building a theme properly
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Communicating with Our Users
• Getting started
• A look back
• Modules send e-mails too!
• Direct contact with a user
• Mailing lists
• External mailing lists
• Automatic signup on user creation
• Signup for anonymous users
• Alternative e-mailing options
• PHPList
• Simplenews
• Amazon Simple Email Service
• Using content blocks to get our message across
• Using theme customisations to indirectly communicate with our users
• Inactive users: Please come back
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Deploying and Maintaining Your Social Network
• Installing the modules
• Security
• Security advisories
• Server security
• Software
• Securing the site with a firewall
• Shared hosting precautions
• CAPTCHA
• SPAM prevention
• Passwords
• Deploying
• Choosing a domain name
• Registering a domain name
• Popular domain name registrars
• Signing up with a hosting provider
• Choosing a web hosting provider
• Considerations for hosts for social networking websites
• Popular web hosting providers
• Setting the nameservers for the domain
• Creating a database on the hosting account
• With cPanel hosting control panel
• With appropriate privileges on PHPMyAdmin
• Exporting our local database
• Importing our local database to the hosting account
• Changing the database settings
• Uploading the site
• Testing
• Maintenance
• Cron
• Looking up the secure cron URL
• Performing maintenance
• Upgrading Drupal
• Reports
• How can these help?
• Backing up and restoring your social network
• With cPanel
• Using the command line
• Do they work?
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Easing Growing Pains
• Basic performance tips
• Introduction to caching and caching options
• NoSQL options
• Can't someone else do it?
• Statistics
• Sending e-mails
• E-mail services
• Hosted Apache Solr search
• Using content delivery networks
• CDN module
• Code improvements and custom modules
• Code profiling
• Slow queries
• Compression
• Server performance and configuration
• Apache
• MySQL
• Alternative web servers
• Scaling our resources
• VPS cloud hosting
• Additional servers
• Adding redundancy to our setup
• Keep an eye out…
• Summary

• Chapter 12: Promotion, SEO, User Retention, and Monetization Strategies
• Promotion and marketing
• Online advertising
• Pay-Per-Click
• Advertising space
• Newsletter advertising
• Newsletters
• Social marketing
• Viral marketing campaigns
• Twitter
• RSS feeds
• Search Engine Optimization
• On-site SEO
• Headings
• Internal links
• Up-to-date, relevant content
• Page meta data
• Site speed
• Search engine goodies! Sitemaps and tools
• Off-site SEO
• What to look for in an SEO company
• User retention
• E-mails for the user's action
• User feedback
• Hello there!
• Monetization options
• Final tips: Web stats
• Modules to consider
• Summary

• Appendix A: Setting up a Local Development Environment
• WampServer for Windows
• Installing WAMPServer
• WAMPServer overview
• Configuring WampServer
• GD2
• Rewrite module
• Linux
• Install Apache
• Enable the rewrite module and restart Apache
• Install PHP
• Enable MySQL and GD
• Install MySQL
• Install phpMyAdmin
• Mac
• Summary

• Appendix B: Installed Modules
• Chapter 1 to Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7 to Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11 to Chapter 12

• Index