This is an online alumni network and social media product for various schools and institutions across UK. Different schools and institutions can register to this online alumni network platform, can set up their personalised network, where students and alumni can join and interact using vast number of tools available to them. Social Media Integrated, Intuitive and Sequential Registration workflow for Students, Alumni, School, Parent Tutor. The video conferencing system was implemented using Big Blue Button (BBB) Open Source System. It is an excellent open source platform system and provides a rich API as well for doing things like recording, scheduling and access check for conferences. Extensive search powered by Apache SOLR. Other major features were implemented using drupal APIs like form API, for Ajax API, Field API to create custom widgets and formatters, database API. In terms of contrib modules, we used a lot of them for various purposes.
Why Drupal was chosen
Drupal is one of the few content management system which earned considerably good reputation and large user base in short span of time. Drupal’s success is not by chance but it really packs some of the great features that provide you with all the things required to do for creating a successful website.
It is a leading Open-source content management system for developing flexible and robust websites.Drupal has been adopted by tens of thousands of websites, from individual blogs to massive social media networks. It is also considered to be a mature product with a huge developer user base.Hook terminology makes Drupal highly flexible and customizable, we can easily extend and customize the existing core functionalities by creating our own modules.
Feature module gives functionality to export views, pages, content type into modules, which can be installed. It helps in updating production environment from development environment.Drupal’s core code has been proven to prevent common security problems such as those defined by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). Additionally, the thriving development community has entire forums dedicated to delivering the best security strategies for each system.
Technical Specifications
Drupal version:
1. Chaos tool suite -CTools is used by Views, Views Slideshow, Webform. It's also required by popular layout modules such as Panels and Display Suite.
2. Views - Views is the way to organize content in Drupal.
3. Token - allows to create re-usable patterns across your site.
4. Libraries API- it is a foundational module. It's an essential part of the WYSIWYG and Colorbox module and powers several Views Slideshow features.
5. Pathauto - combines with Token to allow to create default patterns for your URLs.
