Drupal

Preparing your computer with a local installation of Drupal with WampServer is comparatively a trouble-free process to follow. Since WampServer will install an Apache-server, SQL, PHP and phpMySQL on your computer, with those tools you can install and run Drupal locally even without an internet connection.

By default, drupal will not allow inserting PHP code directly inside a post or in a block. To do this, you need to activate a drupal module called PHP filter via, Administer » Site building » Modules. Even though this module ships with drupal, it remains disabled by default.

Breadcrumbs or breadcrumb trail is a navigation aid used in drupal interfaces. Normally it appears in between the top banner area and the page title. It gives users a way to keep track of their location within programs. Breadcrumbs are really useful in a comparatively bigger website with plenty of sections and subsections. But when it comes to smaller websites, it may found useless. In those cases you may either hide it using CSS (eg. .breadcrumb {display: none;}) or in the page.tpl.php file remove the line that says <?php if ($breadcrumb) print $breadcrumb; ?>

Adding a new region in your drupal template is not a hard thing, but its not as easy as adding a new block. It's basically a two-step process:

► define the custom region in your theme's .info file

► insert some PHP in your theme's page.tpl.php file wherever you would like the new region to appear

Views is a practical necessity for sites built on Drupal 6, and it's imperative that your developer understands how to take advantage of it. Earl Miles has written a great summary on the Views project page.

Adding a new block is a simple process in drupal 6.

► Go to Administer » Blocks and click on the Add Block link (tab).

► Fill in the form with the necessary PHP/HTML code in the block body. And click the 'Save Block' button.

Create a new page with some extra information, so that your visitors don't ever plunge on to the default boring 404 - page not found error page.

Once this page is created:

► Remember its node ID,

► Go to Administer > Site configuration > Error reporting

► Set Default 404 (not found) page to the node ID you just created

► Save your settings

You can also use the Search 404 module as an alternative.

Yeah it's possible! You can apply different themes to different pages in your drupal site simply with the help of a cool module called 'Sections'.

Image module allows users with proper permissions to upload images into Drupal. Thumbnails and additional sizes are created automatically.

Images could be posted individually to the front page, included in stories or grouped in galleries.

To prevent the navigation block title or any other block title from appearing in the pages, just do the following.

► Navigate to Administer » Site building » Blocks and click the configure link next to the Navigation block.

► In the block configuration page, enter <none> in the Block title filed. This will override the default title for the block and remove the title.

Drupal's default URL structure is like "http://www.sitename.com/?q=node/10″ This URL format can be hard to read, and can sometimes prevent search engines from indexing all your pages properly. In this case you can eliminate this "?q=" and clean the URLs through the following steps.

Navigate to Administer » Site configuration » Clean URLs. By default, it will be disabled. Select enabled and click the save configuration button. You are done.

You can make your URLs even more cleaner with the help of path module.

Home » Administer » Site building » Modules: enable the Path Module.

The Pathauto module automatically generates URL/path aliases for various kinds of content (nodes, taxonomy terms, users) without requiring the user to manually specify the path alias. This allows you to have URL aliases like /category/my-node-title instead of /node/123. The aliases are based upon a "pattern" system that uses tokens which the administrator can change.

The interface text (like the "Log in" button and the "Add new comment" text) is in English by default, but can be translated. For many languages, there are completed or partly completed translations available. (See the locale module on how to use them.)

All languages need more translation contributions. Some have only incomplete versions of the text in core, so that parts of the interface will show up in English. Others may be complete but need corrections and improvements of the language. And no language has a complete set of translations for all contributed modules.

A favicon (short for favorites icon), also known as a website icon or bookmark icon is a 16×16 pixel square icon that appears near the address bar and in the bookmarks folder in a visitor's browser. By default, a drupal site shows that water drop kinda drupal logo as favicon.

Login to cPanel -> Databases box -> phpMyAdmin;

► Select the Druapl database folder from the left navigation bar. The page will refresh and and the Drupal database's tables will be displayed on it.

► Click on the SQL tab.

► In the text field write the following SQL query:

update users set pass=md5('NEWPASS') where uid = 1; where "NEWPASS" is your new Drupal administrative password.

Click the GO button to submit the query. If the query is executed correctly and no errors are displayed then you should be able to login with the new password.