Drupal Installed
Posted on May 2, 2007
Filed Under Drupal, Free Software, Informatics |
Building a community website for an online publication at the International Journalism Master - City University.
Drupal has been installed. As we still have the project of the last year on www.londonproject.co.uk we have installed it at 2007.londonproject.co.uk.
Log:
- Blocks. Under
administer » blocksone can add and delete blocks (left, right, up, down). When a new module (a small program that, when inserted, adds a feature) is installed, a new block can appear. To install a module upload the file you find on http://drupal.org/project/Modules on the modules directory and expand it - Pages and stories. Under
Create contentone can add Pages or Stories. Difference explained there, but articles will be inserted as stories. Stories are published automatically, if not chosen otherwise, on the home page. The taxonomy module has been installed in order to categorise the articles (http://drupal.org/node/78698). See also http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/taxonomy - Multi language.
administer » modules » locale. Enablelocale.
http://drupal.org/project/Translations , get your file, expand it. eg arabic: you’ll have a folder “ar” and some other files inside. Between them ar.poBack to our site.administer » localization. Add the language you just have chosen (upload to the site the ar.po file)The multi language (calledlocale) module is built-in, and gives the possibility to have the interface (menu etc) in different languages. What we actually need is to post articles on different languages in a way the reader can switch between them. Then:Installed module localizer http://drupal.org/project/localizer. That allows to have not only the interface, but also blocks, menus, stories etc. User (readers) can choose the language they want to use.Added the language block to the used theme(s) (
administer » block). Remember that when you add a block, you have done it only for the selected theme.Now the reader can switch between English and Arabic. If stories are translated (when you open them a new tab
translateappears)
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