Installing CiviCRM onto
Wordpress
How does it work?
Data (Nodes, etc.)
At the base of the
system is the
collection of
nodes—the data
pool. Before
anything can be
displayed on the
site, it must be
input as data.
Modules
The next layer up is where
modules live. Modules are
functional plugins that are
either part of the Drupal core
(they ship with Drupal) or
they are contributed items
that have been created by
members of the Drupal
community.
Modules build on Drupal's
core functionality, allowing
you to customize the data
items (fields) on your node
types; set up e-commerce;
programmatically sorting and
display of content (custom
output controlled by filters
you define); and more.
Blocks & Menus
At the next layer, we find
blocks and menus. Blocks
often provide the output from
a module or can be created
to display whatever you
want, and then can be
placed in various spots in
your template (theme)
layout. Blocks can be
configured to output in
various ways, as well as only
showing on certain defined
pages, or only for certain
defined users.
User Permissions
Next are user
permissions. This is
where settings are
configured to determine
what different kinds of
users are allow to do
and see. Permissions
are defined for various
roles, and in turn, users
are assigned to these
roles in order to grant
them the defined
permissions.
Template
On the top layer is the site
theme (the "skin"). This is
made up predominantly of
XHTML and CSS, with
some PHP variables
intermixed, so Drupalgenerated content can go in
the appropriate spots. Also
included with each theme is
a set of functions that can
be used to override
standard functions in the
modules in order to provide
complete control over how
the modules generate their
markup at output time.
Templates can also be
assigned on-the-fly based
on user permissions.
Order of Operations
1.Lithium Hosting Set-Up
2.MySQL Set-Up
3.Drupal Upload and install
4.CiviCRM Upload and Install
Lithium Hosting
For those of you who have done this before it will be a
review
Tutorial
o http://bit.ly/hnKysU
Follow this until page 6.
Databases and MySQL
What is a Database?
Databases designed to offer an organized mechanism for
storing, managing and retrieving information. They do so
through the use of tables. If you’re familiar with
spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel, you’re probably already
accustomed to storing data in tabular form.
Here are just a few of the actions that you can perform on
a database that would be difficult if not impossible to
perform on a spreadsheet
o Retrieve all records that match certain criteria
o Update records in bulk
o Cross-reference records in different tables
o Perform complex aggregate calculation
MySQL
What is MySQL?
MySQL is a relational database management system
(RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi-user access
to a number of databases.
o Relational in the sense that it is a DBMS in which data is
stored in the form of tables and the relationship among the
data is also stored in the form of tables.
MySQL Set-Up
What is MySQL?
<-- Create a database
name. Write this down!
Create a user name. You can
create multiple users if you want.
Above, you can see
two databases my
wordpress db and
the new MySQL.
Also, we have
created a new user.
Below you will see
users currently in
operation.
Install WordPress
In Cpanel, scroll down to Software/Services
Click on Softaculous
Install wordpress on your domain or subdomain
1. If you scroll down to file
manager within cpanel you
want to click on “public_html”
2. Continue by
clicking upload &
upload your drupal6.20.tar.gz file
3. Select the .tar.gz file
and select “extract”
Wordpres is now installed
Now you can type “www.url.com/wp-admin
This will direct you to the back end of you word press
Enter in "database name" from MySQL step
As well as the username and password
The advanced options include the
server/host name. For this you will stay with
"localhost"
In that new "modules" folder you created, select upload
in the menu bar of the file manager.
From here, browse for an upload "civicrm-3.3.5drupal.tar.gz" file that you downloaded form the CiviCRM
site via sourceforge.
Once it is successfully uploaded you will see the file
as seen above.
From here you will select "extract" in the menu above
and to the right
As suspected this will extract the
file "civicrm" from the tar file.
Next step is the CiviCRM install
in the address bar of your browser enter:
o http://<your_drupal_home>/drupal6.2/sites/all/modules/civicrm/install/index.php
o This will bring you to the following steps...
Enter info in the spaces
accordingly.
This is why writing down all of
you info is VERY important.
the civicrm installer gives you info about what you
have missing or need to change.
Here for example, we would need to right click on
the "default" folder and change the permissions if we
hadn't done it already.
Green is good!!!
You now have CiviCRM up and
running on your drupal site.