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This is about How to Update Drupal Modules

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Learning Drupal 6 Module Development is a new book from Packt, which acts as a practical tutorial for creating Drupal 6 modules with PHP. Written by Matt Butcher, this book will help users to walk through the development of complete Drupal 6 Modules.

Drupal is a free and open-source modular web application framework and content management system (CMS) written in PHP. It can run in many environments, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD. It’s a modular system, with an elegant hook-based architecture, and great code. These are a few of the perks that make Drupal a choice platform for developers who want the power of an established CMS, but the freedom to make it work for them. From social networking to AJAX to e-commerce, the hundreds of existing modules attest to Drupal’s flexibility.

If users are eager to start creating modules for Drupal 6, this is their book. They will walk through the development of complete Drupal modules with this primer for PHP programmers. Specifically written for Drupal 6, this book will get users coding modules as quickly as possible, and help them add the features that will give their work that professional gloss!

This book will give users a clear, concise and, of course, practical guidance to take them from the basics of creating their first module to developing the skills to make them a Drupal developer to be reckoned with. Learning Drupal 6 Module Development covers the new and updated APIs to guide their transition to Drupal 6. The new menu system, the Forms and Schema APIs, and many core revisions are covered in this book.

This book is written for PHP developers who want to add custom features to Drupal. Users will need to know the basics of PHP and MySQL programming, but no experience of programming Drupal is required, although they will be expected to be familiar with the basic operation of Drupal.

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It’s quite common that you want to add a new Drupal module to your site. And Drupal has made this process very easily. But due to lack of the knowledge of Drupal folder structures, the module is installed in the wrong way, which increase the future maintenance cost of your site. In below, we will talk about how to install drupal module properly.

Download Drupal Module Source Code

In order to install a module, you will need to download the source code, and unzip it. The best place to find the 3rd party module is in Drupal official site: http://drupal.org/project/Modules, there are huge list of free and useful modules you can use to setup a powerful web site.

Upload Drupal Module Source code to Proper Directory

Then, we come to the most important step – unload the code to the correct directory. What the “correct directory” here means? Drupal can recognize the new module if you upload the source code to one of the below directories:

{Drupal}/modules/ {Drupal}/sites/all/modules {Drupal}/sites/{site}/modules

And each of above directory has its own purpose.

As a best practice in using open source project, it would be good to keep all the customized code to one place and don’t touch all the core code the open source projects have developed. This will greatly reduce your maintenance cost when upgrading your code to next version. For Drupal, the centralized directory for customized code is {Drupal}/sites.

For directory {Drupal}/modules/, this is the place to place the Drupal core file, even you can install your module there, we would like recommend you not to do it.

And for {Durpal}/sites/, if you want this module can be used by all the sites you host in your Drupal instance, it would be good to place the module source code to {Drupal}/sites/all/modules. And the module installed in {Drupal}/sites/{site}/modules will be only available in the specific site.

Active Drupal Module

You can go Administrator->Site Building->Modules, check the the module you just install and save the configuration to active it.

Now, you should be able to use the new module now.

In this quick video I shall demonstrate the nuts and bolts of creating a module.