On Drupal
If you follow my delicious bookmarks you have probably noticed a lot of bookmarks on Drupal.. I’ve chosen Drupal for the next step of the Secret Project.
Why Drupal? It’s well supported and documented, it has really nice modules, and it’s permissions system seems perfect what what we are trying to do. Of course, with flexibility comes complexity and I’m fine with wading through that. But it’s hard when things just don’t work right.
I wanted to at least try install Drupal in PostgreSQL, and it says it’s possbile but the install only gives you the option to put in MySQL info. Okay, I’ll play with it in MySQL. That went fine — the install itself was incrediably easy.
Next I tried to install the TinyMCE module so we could enter entries in a WYSIWYG method. I followed the directions the best I could but they were a little cryptic. There were some hiccups but probably because I hadn’t installed a module before and I didn’t like the docs. But I was soon able to configure the module but it didn’t work!! I did some googles and found that some people had to dig into the tinymce.module file. I messed with the file, but that didn’t seem to work. Then, suddenly, it works! I’m not sure why or how, but it’s working now . . .
So then I tried to install the Control Panel module and had worse luck — it won’t even show up in the Module list! Maybe it’s because I have Drupal 5.x and maybe it hasn’t been updated for the 5.x series. I dunno.
There I’m a little frustrated but I’m going to continue on with it. Drupal has features that I need the other CMS doesn’t really have (like Joomla). And many sites use it and, after wading through the configuration I think it will work nicely for us.