FreeGlobes (English version via Google) is a free PHP/mySQL links manager/directory/digg-like social bookmarking and voting script.

Current latest version: RC2

Official Demo

Its homepage, parts of the script and installation instructions in their wiki are in French and hence I thought a English version of its installation tutorial would be helpful.

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This is the fourth in the series of Creating a Web Site using Drupal. Here are the earlier ones: First, Second and Third.

Unlike earlier, this post is all text and doesn’t contain a screencast.

Moving Drupal from sub directory to root

Since I have had enough of sNews, I finally thought it is time to move my Drupal installation from /drupal to /. It was as simple as connecting via FTP and moving all the content of /drupal directory one level up. I made sure that I didn’t have index.php or index.html residing at / before you move. I went through some forum posts at drupal.org on what else I should be doing and saw that some have advised to modify the value of $base_url in sites/default/settings.php. I noticed that it’s commented out in my case and hence didn’t modify it.

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phpMyVisites is an open source (GNU/GPL) PHP/MySQL script for websites statistics and audience measurements. It gives a lot of information on websites visitors, visited pages, software/hardware utilization, etc.

Official Demo | Forum | Screenshot of my installation’s statistics page

Some of the significant features are:

• Security: Because security is a critical software element, phpMyVisites has maximum protection against intrusions and external attacks.
• Multiple Web Sites: Multiple web sites may be added. Each site will have precise and distinct statistics.
• Multi Users: Add an infinite number of users and manage permissions for each user (viewing and/or administration rights for certain sites).
• Receive web site statistics everyday by e-mail, by RSS feed, etc.

For the complete list, click here.

Installation is quite simple.

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In the first and second parts of this tutorial series, I showed you installing Drupal and doing initial configuration. In this video tutorial I peform the following tasks:

• Setting the length of trimmed posts to unlimited so that all the post/story content appears on the index page.
• Adding content i.e., creating a page and story.
• Adding specialized div, p, img etc. tags to the list of allowed HTML for filtered HTML so the attributes don’t get stripped out by Drupal. You can also see that I emptied the rows of cache_filter table so the changes take affect.
• Setting permissions to anonymous and registered users so we can control what modules are visible to whom via Access control.
• Adding a search form and Recent comments blocks to the right side bar.
• Changing the position of the above two blocks.
• Setting up the contact form and adding a link to it in the top right corner (Primary Links).
• Adding the categories I created in my previous screencast to the left side bar. I then moved Login box below the Navigation.
• Adding a link to the page in the page editing form itself.
• Putting a break statement so we can split a story via a Read more.

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In the first part of Creating a web site using Drupal, I showed you how I installed Drupal at http://www.scriptinstall4free.com/drupal/. In the screencast below, I perform the following tasks:

• I let Drupal create a directory by the name files which will house logos, avatars and other media.
• I then enabled Clean URLs.
• I entered the site information namely: Name, E-mail address, Slogan, Mission
• I disabled the default theme’s logo.
• I added a couple of links at the top right where it reads Edit Primary Links.
• I enabled the Contact and Search modules.
• I created a vocabulary called Categories and created my site categories. Drupal allows for hierarchical child categories.

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