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Parent Item

The item under which a node can fall as a subset. Assigning a parent item to a page will make that page into a menu item.

Path 

In Drupal terms, a unique, last part of the URL for a specific function or piece of content. For instance, for a page whose full URL is http://example.com/node/7, the path is “node/7”.

Permission

In Drupal, a permission is a tool for controlling access to content creation, modification and site administration at the application level. Administrators assign permissions to roles (such as “Administrator”, “Authenticated User” and “Anonymous User”), then assign users to those roles. The first user of a Drupal site (user1) automatically receives all permissions. (The “cws” user account is user1 in the distro.)

Personal Publishers

"Personal publishers" are individuals at the university who publish web content unrelated to those individuals' official work role at the university. Examples of such information include student pages, faculty curriculum vitae that are published independently of departmental faculty information, and staff members' pages that represent personal information such as hobbies.

PHP, Hypertext Preprocessor

Is a general-purpose scripting language that quickly became the de facto server-side language of choice for web developers after its initial release in 1995. Today, a majority of sites on the web run on PHP, due in large part to its popularity as the back-end of content management systems, CMS, such as WordPress, Drupal and Joomla.

Published

The state of a node that can be viewed by visitors to the website. To easily hide nodes from the public (i.e. anonymous role), go to the add/edit form of the node and uncheck the “Published” select box. This effectively un-publishes the node.