How To Setup CIVICRM & Drupal
Submitted by robb on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 19:48.
Download Install Drupal - pretty easy and well documented
Download the CiviCRM Drupal Php5 tar ball and unzip it in the sites/all/modules directory.
- modify civicrm.settings.php.sample to civicrm.settings.php and put in the drupal database and the database in the civicrm database settings.
Docs for a manual installation are here: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Install+CiviCRM+1.9+fo...
The auto installation works as well: if it is the first set-up, if you are doing multi-site you'll need to do the manual.
Todo autoinstallation all you do is go to yoursite.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal/install/index.php and type in the database username, no need to even configure the settings.php file as referred to above.
Change configurations.
Now it is all up and running, you have some more Drupal work to do. Setting up a generic about us page for the primary links and aliasing it with URL Path.
Setting up Contact Sign-Up form using CiviCRM profile.
This will enable interested individuals to sign-up directly through your web-site and be added to a contact list.
First create a group through CiviCRM. This will be a mailing list.
You can do this through the CiviCRM menu item and then New Group.
To enable everyone who signs up to be added to this group you have to go under advanced settings and select add to group.
Then create a profile. Add the fields from the individual.
You will probably need to create some custom fields as well. This is done under CivicRM Custom Fields. In order for users to sign-up to a profile with custom fields they will need to be given the permission access all custom fields user drupal - user - access control.
Two forms of access control need to be done for anonymous users to sign-up for accounts.
profile listings and forms - check
access all custom data - check
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/Configure+CiviCRM+Profile
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