Installing Drupal can be rewarding and easy. This howto assumes that you already have a Fedora 12 installation configured with both SE-Linux, Firewall active and minimal services/packages.  This tutorial is for beginners so that they can get Drupal installed quickly and easily.  It also guides users through installing Webmin and phpmyadmin.

Building A PHPTemplate Theme

Your probably just installed Drupal, poked around and want to create your own theme.  If your not a programmer, there are plenty free templates available or you could get paid Drupal services.  Some us are the kind of people who want to learn and do things themselves.  This is where Google and the community help out.

The goal of this article is to create a basic theme and to get a beginner Drupaler started on creating a masterpiece theme.

Getting Started

Create a directory for the theme.

A couple simple tricks to modify a form:

Everyone knows modifying a form can be a pain and particularly confusing for the beginner if you don't know where to start.  I am putting this quick article together to supplement my last article and highlight those tricks.
 

Introduction:

Drupal is a great open-source project that combines being a unified web-framework, a serious API and is highly modular due to its architecture.  It is also very community driven, powerful and above all, caters to the developer and the themer.  Off the bat, Drupal can be a little big confusing and intimidating for the beginner.  In this mini-series, I will show you various ways of adding fields to the registration and user process in Drupal.

IDEs such as Dreamweaver can cost alot of money for the results they produce.  As the web changed, a Java based-platform, Eclipse exploded onto the development scene.  As Eclipse gained more popularity, communities formed and open-source editions that packaged it into a PHP IDE.

One of these IDEs is called Aptana. 

This Howto covers downloading and configuring Aptana for PHP and Drupal development.