Showing posts with label Beginner Help. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beginner Help. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
How to install Drupal 6.2
Installing Drupal is very easy. But if you can't understand how to install it then let me show you. In this tutorial I am using Drupal 6.2 version. Before installation make sure your have all recommended system requirements.
System Requirements are:
- Web Server: Apache or Microsoft IIS
- PHP 5.2 or Higher
- MySQL 4.1 or PostgreSQL 7.4 or Higher
- For other system requirements visit this link: http://drupal.org/requirements
Now follow these steps:
- First of all download latest copy of Drupal from this link: http://drupal.org/download
- Uncompress & put the it into your server's root directory. In my case I put it into /htdocs/ directory and renamed it as 'mydrupal'.
- Now visit it from your browser: http://localhost/mydrupal
- Choose your desire language, I chose: Install Drupal in English
- In this step Drupal will verify your system requirement. If your system requirements are correct then you have nothing to do, just move next.
- Now setup database: go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin & create a database something like 'mydrupal_db'
- Back to Drupal & enter database information. In my case I entered following:
- Database type: mysqli
- Database name: mydrupal_db
- Database username: root
- Database passowrd: [password of my database server]
- Now configure your site:
- Enter site name: 'My Drupal'
- Site email address: 'admin@localhost.com'
- Administrator Username: 'admin'
- Administrator Email: 'admin@localhost.com'
- Administrator Password: '123456'
- Save & Continue
As you are the administrator of your site, do the following tasks to enjoy full control of it:
- Create Administrator Role:
- Go to: Administer > User Management > Roles
- Add Role with a name something like 'Administrator'
- Go to: Administer > User Management > Users
- Here you will find a user with name 'admin'. Now click "Edit" link.
- In the next page check on "Administrator" role & Save
- Assign Administrator Permissions:
- Go to: Administer > User Management > Permissions
- Check on all checkboxes found under 'Administrator' column. This will allow 'admin' user to access all functions of all installed modules.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed Drupal. For more information about how to administer Drupal read this article: http://drupal.org/getting-started/6/admin
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Wanna be a web developer?
I posted this into my another blog It's a fun !!! I think you will find it helpful. Let me describe myself, I am a web developer working with php/mysql from last few years. My friends often ask me, how to start and become professional. I give them following guideline which may take more or less 10 weeks. I hope this will help you too. Here you go:
- Week 1: You need a book name "Beginning PHP 5" by Wrox publication. It's a good book to start. Read chapter 2, 3, 4 to learn php & also read chapter 9, 10, 11 for mysql.
- Week 2: After reading these 6 chapters now practice all examples found in these chapters. Type the same code in the editor & see how it works in the browser.
- Week 3: Build a simple content management site where people register, login & post articles. Also create an admin panel where administrator can add/edit/delete users & their articles.
- Week 4: Build a photo submission & rating site like www.hotornot.com, www.ivotethis.com or www.whosthebitch.com
- Week 5: You need to understand an ecommerce site. Here is an open source solution name "osCommerce". Download it from www.oscommerce.com, setup & try to understand how it works. Also download the documentation & read it.
- Week 6: Now try to build a simple ecommerce site.
- Week 7: Learn Smarty template. It helps to organize your code by separating php from html. You will find help from here: http://smarty.php.net/crashcourse.php
- Week 8: To become professional you need to have basic idea about the followings:
- CSS
- XHTML
- Javascript
- Photoshop (Specially Slice tool)
- ADODB Library - http://phplens.com/adodb/ (optional)
- Week 9 & 10 (Optional): Now try to understand a script name "Joomla" - www.joomla.org . It's a Content Management Script (CMS). With this open source script you can build any website in the world :) & can deliver to your client fast. It's a great script I have ever found.
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