A new way of creating a website is using what is sometimes called a “headless” site, with the front end being served by an MVC framework (Model View Controller).

Headless Drupal means using Drupal purely for content creation and management and feeding all the data in JSON format to a JavaScript front end.

Stragegy

• download no-core version
• replace all modules in repo with symbolic links
• create standard Drupal 7 site
• link openatrium directory into profiles/openatrium
• install site using openatrium install profile

dget install openatrium 7.x-2.19-no-core d7paths
grep memory_limit /etc/php.ini       #should be >= 256M
grep max_allowed_packet /etc/my.cnf  #should be >= 32M (add under [mysqld]}

• Go through OA contrib modules and any we have already replace with the one in the repo

mod=/opt/dr7/contrib/modules
oa=$mod/openatrium

function repoa {
  rm -Rf $oa/modules

1. Install modules on server

dget install redhen 7.x-1.7 d7paths
dget install message 7.x-1.9 d7paths
dget install relation 7.x-1.0-rc5 d7paths
dget install registration 7.x-1.3 d7paths
dget install redhen_membership 7.x-1.x-dev d7paths
dget install entityreference 7.x-1.1 d7paths
dget install addressfield 7.x-1.0-beta5 d7paths

• assume entity, ctools already installed

2.

Here are some useful links:

• chapterthree.com/…-performance Very interesting but not sure about the views cache
• friendlymachine.net/…in-drupal Varnish plus some other caching options

In case the problem is the underlying system performance:

• www.howtoforge.com/…h-sysbench
• www.interworx.com/…nux-servers

Here are some resources for comparing the two systems:

• Differences between CRM Core and Redhen from the CRM Core issue queue
• What makes Party Special —not a lot of content
• The main discussion group
  • Why did you choose Redhen or CRM Core? —some interesting opinions
• The Drupal Experience —a useful comparison
  • Part 1: Differences in Phi

1. Install necessary modules and themes:

site=/home/mysite
dsite add $site zurb-foundation -m theme
dsite add $site views_foundation
dsite add $site jquery_update

Notes

• foundation.zurb.com/…nvas.html Off Canvas menus
• foundation.zurb.com/…sink.html This page includes every single Foundation element

Optional modules

• drupal.org/…ject/mobile_detect (If Foundation only to be used on mobile sites)

Installing the theme is the easy bit. What is much harder is setting up automatic SCSS recompilation.

• The README.txt file suggests using a full-blown installation of node.js just to manage this.
• A much more lightweight solution is to use compass