Starting with Drupal

The Internet world is very volatile, dynamic and most usual way to access it is through websites. Today there to be an expert or have much knowledge of computers or programming to create a website, because there are many ways in which only a way to click and follow a few instructions can achieve the same goal.

One of the ways to create a website quickly and easily that is reaching boom in recent times is by using the CMS, then the next question arise: What is a CMS?

CMS Content Management System English is a content manager. In other words is a program that allows you to create a support structure (framework) for the creation and content management.

Content Management System is a software application used to create, edit, manage and publish digital content in various formats. The CMS generates dynamic pages interacting with the server to generate the web page request from the user, the default format and the content extracted from the database server. Consists of an interface that controls one or more databases which hosts the site content. The system can independently manage the content and design. It is possible to manage content at any time and give a different design to the site without having to format the content again.

Knowing as it is a CMS is then to decide which is more suited to our needs. In a very personal way I have chosen from the huge list of CMS that are in the market to Drupal.

What is Drupal?

Drupal is a content management framework, content management system and blogging engine based on PHP. Drupal is the English spelling for the Dutch word 'druppel' which means 'drop'.

Drupal has become more than just a news portal, thanks to its flexible architecture. Drupal has a basic layer that supports modules that enable additional behaviors. The modules available for Drupal provide a wide range of features, including e-commerce systems, photo galleries, managing mailing lists, etc..

Drupal can fulfill almost any role, from, corporate intranets, to, teaching online art communities and project management. Drupal stands out among those of a large extent by the active user communities

After reading these fundamental concepts, then it's time to start the installation.

Installing Drupal

The first is to download the latest version of Drupal. Drupal 6.17Luego Now unzip the file and put it in the appropriate directory. If you install it on your machine you need to install Apache and MySQL. There are programs that you install all look like they are a Wamp (In this case you put it in the www folder) or XAMPP (In this case you put it in httpdocs folder). Set then the browser http://localhost/ and Here you select phpmyadmin and create a BD.Luego http://localhost/ also select the folder with the name you put to the Drupal installation folder you extracted and copied in step 2 and start the first screen instalación.La appears has two options. This installation is in English but other languages ​​can be installed. Later language install the demos now click Install Drupal in English.Luego a screen with a red box means that there is a error.Lo to do is go to the folder / drupal / sites / default /, double the default.settings.php file settings.php and put the name and then click the try again the next screen to configure the connection BD.Ponemos name of the database we created in step 3 and the username and password of the database (" root "and" "by default), but it is advisable to change them.

Continuamos.En store and configure the screen below the site.

Site information

Site name: The name you want to put ("Site" for example)

Site e-mail address: Email address of the site

Administrator account

Username: User Management

E-mail address: The e-mail management

Password: The password management

Confirm password: Confirm password

Server settings

Default time zone: Set time zone

Clean URLs: Set whether to use clean URLs. This option is disabled if the php configuration is also disabled.

Update notifications: Determine whether or not to receive update notifications Drupal.

Save and Continue

Here we have a site ready to start well and introduce you to personalize content, but this site is in English, in case you want to install other languages ​​is necessary to follow some steps.

Change the language for Drupal

The first thing to do is download the language you want to install. In http://localize.drupal.org/ include all the translations of Drupal, which deseemos.Cuando have downloaded the file downloaded unzip it in the installation folder Drupal.Ahora we go to our site, go to the list modules and activate the modules "Content translation" and "local" and maintain. The module "Content translation", allows content to be translated into different languages ​​and "Locale" adds language handling functionality and enables the translation of the user interface to languages ​​other than on the menu ingles.Notemos Administer-Site building new functionality is added, Translate interface. We turn to this option and we click Import to import the new language. Load the file extension. Po found in the Drupal installation folder profiles \ default \ translations and put the name and guardamos.Ahora going to Administer-Site configuration-Languages. Notice how the language has been added, but you must delete it and create it again to take the translations. Therefore, we click the delete option is located next to the language, we verify that we have not mistaken and discard. We go to the Add language option, select the language and keep it, see how it goes bar that shows how important the latter marking interfaz.Por translations language as default, store, and now our site is in another language.

Now we are ready to activate modules, change the layout of the site, enter content, organize it, in short, they will realize that just browse through the menus is entirely possible to create a fully functional site that meets the desired requirements.