Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Understanding the Architecture of Drupal

After Installing Drupal, now we have the challenge to understand the basic structure and functioning of drupal
open your drupal site--
http://localhost/mysite/
as:

















Now you have some fields like
  • My Account
  • Create Content
  • Administer
  • Log out

Friday, September 3, 2010

Lession-1: Installastion of Drupal

Download drupal from http://drupal.org/ 
Select Drupal 6.16 version,  you can also select earlier version but Drupal 6.16 will serve you better
After the download follow the procedure
  • First unzipped the downloaded file 
  • Copy and paste it in htdocs directory (if you are using Xampp) and www directory (if you are using wamp).
  • After copy and paste rename it as mysite or whatever you want.
  • Before calling in Browser make sure you have already created database in http://localhost/phpmyadmin/.
  •  Now call it in you browser as- http://localhost/mysite/
  •  Click on the Install Drupal in English
  • Verify requirements : Just follow the instruction displayed there.Copy the ./sites/default/default.settings.php file to ./sites/default/settings.php.
  • Set up database:now you have three textboxes
    • Database name : inter your database witch u have created in  http://localhost/phpmyadmin/.
    • Database username: Default username of database is root
    • Database password: default password is blank, do nor enter anything , leave it blank. 
  • Save and Continue: it will install the site
  • Now your are on the Site configuration page where you have some information to fill , Fill all the details and Save and Continue.
  • Now Druapl Site is installed on your Computer.

    Drupal: Learn and Build website yourself.

    Hi Freinds,

    This is my first post, and it is based on the drupal, a very powerfull Content Management  Sytem (CMS).
    Here we will learn to build website based on drupal.