Notes and Resources - 2009

Resources

John Walling's list of resources for Drupal beginners (highly recommended, comprehensive):
http://www.listology.com/jwalling/list/drupal-beginner-resources

See also: attachments below.

Notes about Class/Site

Drupal version: 6.13

List of contributed modules and themes used in class (all of these are modules except as noted):

• Admin Role 6.x-1.1 - http://drupal.org/project/adminrole
• Administration Menu 6.x-1.5 - http://drupal.org/project/admin_menu
• Advanced Help 6.x-1.2 - http://drupal.org/project/advanced_help
• Backup and Migrate 6.x-1.2 - http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate
• Calendar 6.x-2.2 - http://drupal.org/project/calendar
• Content Construction Kit (CCK) 6.x-2.5 - http://drupal.org/project/cck
• Date 6.x-2.3 - http://drupal.org/project/date
• Path Auto 6.x-1.1 - http://drupal.org/project/pathauto
• Token 6.x-1.12 - http://drupal.org/project/token
• Views 6.x-2.6 - http://drupal.org/project/views
• WYSIWYG 6.x-2.0 - http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg, and FCK Editor 2.6.4.1 library from http://www.fckeditor.net/download
• Pixture Reloaded theme - http://drupal.org/project/pixture_reloaded

List of other contributed modules and themes available on student sites for individual projects (these are all modules except as noted):

• FileField 6.x-3.1 - http://drupal.org/project/filefield
• Image API 6.x-1.6 - http://drupal.org/project/imageapi
• Image Cache 6.x-2.0-beta10 - http://drupal.org/project/imagecache
• ImageField 6.x-3.1 - http://drupal.org/project/imagefield
• Webform 6.x-2.7 - http://drupal.org/project/webform
• Flexible 2 Theme 6.x-1.6 - http://drupal.org/project/flexible
• Zen Theme 6.x-1.0 - http://drupal.org/project/zen - there is also a Zen "starter kit" sub-theme in each student sites directory

Student site set-up - if you want to teach a similar class

1. Create a new domain for the class, and install Drupal there.
2. Make a subdomain for each student, and make the subdomain's document root the same as your domain's main document root.
3. Make a database for each student, and note the user name and password -- or use a shared database user name and password for the entire class and assign this database user name to each student.
4. Make a sites folder for each student subdomain.
5. Make sure the sites subfolder and the settings.php file within it are writable by the web server.

See http://drupal.org/getting-started/6/install/multi-site for more information on using Drupal in multi-site mode.