How i started Drupal

HI there,

today I’m gonna write something about my drupal work today, how i started it..

After the completion of my training in PHP for 1 month..i was started learning Drupal..it was September 2007..I was a complete newbie in all those stuff and i didn’t have a pinch of idea about Drupal..It was the first time when I heard about it….On the very first day I installed drupal 5.2 and setup the DB..for that

> I downloaded a copy of drupal 5.2 zip version,

> unzipped and put it in my WWW folder and renamed it to ‘mydrupal’,

> Created one database  called “db_mydrupal”,

> Now opened the Drupal folder -> sites -> default -> found a file called settings.php with read-only attribute -> unchecked it to give the file the read-write acccess

> changed the mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename to mysql://mydbusername(root):mydbpassword(****)@localhost/db_mydrupal

> then again gave the file read-only access for safety..

> now opened my browser and run the install script (http://localhost/mydrupal/install.php)

————-AND MYDRUPAL IS INSTALLED

now created my first account with a valid email address….got my password by the email…reset it…and finally done.. quite easy if  you see…

There are five main sections for the control of the site in the administration section…they are

> Content management

> Site building

> User management

> Site configuration

> Logs

the drupal package comes with modules like forum, comment, blog, poll, profile which makes it great for a community site..here you can create user with specific permission you want instantly without installing any other module..you can make a site without any external effort..it looks great..

I did a lot of experiments and explored a lot of things on the very first day.. Thats it for today..I will come up with those in my next posts later..