Drupal can handle some pretty advanced publishing scenarios. The core installation provides a handful of settings that enable us to control many aspects of how nodes are published. In this tutorial, we dig into these controls and provide some use cases.

We start with the basics of using the published setting to switch nodes from draft to live. We then review how to work with the author information and conclude with a tour of Drupal's handy revision system.

Drupal supports many different types of content, but the king of them all is the node. Nodes contain static copy and markup (usually) authored via Drupal's admin. The majority of pages in most Drupal sites are nodes. They come in many different flavors, such as basic pages, blog entries, products, and press releases.

In this tutorial video we see how Drupal manages content and how nodes work. If you are new to Drupal, this video will help get you oriented quickly for productive content management.

Recipe for creating a node module skeleton:
1. Create three files using the code snippets at the bottom of this post

• foo.info
• foo.module
• foo.theme

Note: replace foo with your module name. If this is for a specific project, use project codes in the format [pc][nodetype]

2. do the following search and replace on all three files
"[pc]foo" -> [pc][nodetype]
"foo" -> [nodetype]

foo.info code:

; $Id $
name = "Foo"
description = "Foo posts."
package = 
dependencies =

foo.module code: