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.

ModulesThe 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 & MenusAt 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.

TemplateOn the top layer is the site

theme (the "skin"). This is

made up predominantly of

XHTML and CSS, with

some PHP variables

intermixed, so Drupal-

generated 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

Tutorialohttp://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 oRetrieve all records that match certain criteria oUpdate records in bulk oCross-reference records in different tables oPerform 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.oRelational 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/ServicesClick on SoftaculousInstall 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 drupal-

6.20.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 stepAs 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-3.3.5-drupal.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:ohttp://<your_drupal_home>/drupal-6.2/sites/all/

modules/civicrm/install/index.phpoThis 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.