Just a quick few notes from tonight's meeting:
First, for those of you who haven't setup your own Drupal installations before, I forgot to mention DAMP from Acquia. It's the "stack" installer there, and should be a one stop install for you. I've not used it yet, but I've heard good things. If you're more adventuresome and want to do a little more work, xampp, wamp, mamp are great tools for getting a server up and running on your machine.
We discussed some of the MUST-HAVE modules, the quick ones I mentioned were:
CCK
Views
Token
Pathauto
The other modules people mentioned as great tools
Drush
Panels
Webform
Menu_trails
Admin_menu
Finally I demo'd super simple versions of virtually everything that views could conceivably do from the admin. I realize I may have flown through this. What I'd love to see for next month is perhaps people bringing their own questions, and let's see if we can start hashing through them and distributing the knowledge in some other format than what we did tonight :-)
I really look forward to seeing everyone next month!
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Great Time
Had a great time. Will start putting together some of my own questions for the next meetup.
I have a question regarding what we went over yesterday about getting a test environment up. Say I have MAMP installed on my Mac and have been running a test environment for weeks and now I want to start over with a basic load of Drupal. What's the easiest way of starting over with a fresh load and database? Or... what if I wanted to run multiple test sites on the same installation of Drupal and create a new site instead of deleting the old test environment site?
Thanks.
MAMP will support as many
MAMP will support as many drupal installs as you like, so you just need to get a new drupal directory in your htdocs dir, and create a new db for it to connect to. As simple as that. Don't worry about a drupal multi-site install unless you REALLY need that. I've never had to do it with MAMP, so I dunno what might go into that, but getting multiple drupal installs running under MAMP is a snap. Shouldn't take much.
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