Drupal CMS V5.0 installation made easy

Please click on the following link if you want to make Drupal CMS V5.0 Beta1 installation easier.

http://www.geotechnical.org/drupal5p0.html

This is just an assistance, not the real drupal software or cms files. Use as it is. If it does not work, please don't complain. Try another method. It should work in Linux platform based servers, that is where I tested the php codes. It can save your time, money and effort if you have not yet obtained or do not like 30 day evaluation kinda unzipping software to unzip your tar files. My four steps php codes work right at your server, and avoids all burden of uploading and downloading stuffs large number or files or large sized files (do not worry about interruptions).

If you already have 3rd party unzipping software, you want to avoid using my php codes, you can do that too. To download Drupal CMS V5.0 separately without using my PHP code, go to the following URL:

http://www.Drupal.org/ and follow instructions outlined inside this official Drupal website.

Enjoy the fruit of Drupal CMS. Drupal is my favorite CMS software. My PHP code also work for Joomla CMS, but you need to have some minor adjustments in URL, file name and destination directories.

I personally like Joomla and Drupal both. What-so-ever I am not a polygamist, hehehe. Here are some comparisions between Drupal and Joomla.

1. Joomla is Easy to use. Download, install and start using. Drupal needs sometime to understand it. Activation is main hurdle if you are a first time Drupal User.

2. Outlook and Menu: Joomla Menus are cool. Ready made. Drupal menus are developed or enhanced by you (best phrase would be "CUSTOMIZED BY YOU"). Joomla is ready made up to date saloon type, but Drupal is custom made type, comes with at least two piece clothes, at least not to the extend the people I had seen at Ajana Beach, Goa, India sometime back when I visited the beach (It was my very first time time to see people without dress in a public place.... top and bottomless). You need to spare some extra time to understand Drupal's customization methods, and fit your dress to your need.

3. Scalability: Both are scalable. I like Joomla's ability to integrate other 3rd party forums: SMF, Gallery 2 for photos. Unfortunately, Drupal does not like these 3rd party famous Gallery 2 and SMF softwares. Its the issue every user is trying to request at Drupal. Drupal is very scientific, module based. You just download and install it. Installation of modules is much easier at Drupal than at Joomla.

4. Scalability of domains: Drupal is fablous in this perspective. If you have several domains, the same set of programs work for all domains. If you are having different user set for each domains, then its best choice, because I have found that same set of Drupal works perfectly fine for different domains with different dB e.g. MySQL database. Thats the best thing with Drupal. It means a lot to you, you can configure the same program set, and keep on working on same program set. In Joomla, you need to install the whole set of programs corresponding to each domain set and they should installed in different directories, unless all the domains point to the same contents. Drupal is great from WebMaster's perspective. Joomla is great from User's perspective..

4. Upgrading: Drupal seems easier than Joomla.

5. Mobile Equipment adjustments: I tried to make my domains ( http://www.egs.mobi/ and http://www.eTech.mobi/ ) to be accessible to mobile equipments with 240 or 320 pixel wide screens. I was able to adjust the Joomla CMS, and it looked working well at http://www.eTech.mobi/ but I have complications on other child pages next to the home page ). That means, I need to hack Drupal CMS much better, but at Joomla hacking the Theme Page will turn the computer based screen to Mobile Equipment based screen. You can design two Themes one for mobile, and another for computers (desktop / portable). So, you can easily switch to others. I am still unable to do that in Drupal CMS. I am not an expert in WebProgramming, so I have to drill it later when I get free time. I am certainly a "professional" in FORTRAN language based programming, and I had independtly written at least 20,000-30,000 lined FORTRAN programs in my professional life (in last 18 years). Meanwhile, I had also written JAVA based graphics plug-in for my FORTRAN programs, and I recently wrote a program in PHP to convert traditional true type font based Devnagari Characters to UNICODE based Devanagari Characters ( http://www.pokhara.org/ and http://www.chhahari.com/unicode/ ). I mean, I know programming flow chart, but I am not expert in web programming syntax. It is so vast, I just gave up my summer project of developing an independent CMS, and moved to Free CMS.... I am now trying to put these programs on my operating table so that I can understand their inside details and customize as I need. You have to do the same. Drupal and Joomla guys are doing their best, but with the financial constraints that they have (working free of charge), they are offering what they could do from their unpaid volunteer jobs. I am very much satisfied with both Drupal and Joomla CMS. "GROW INTO BIZ or GO INTO BIZ". They are growing into business.

5. I like both of them. I am not biased to anyone. As I said before, I am not a polygamist.

I can speak 4 different languages, and one of them is Japanese. Yatta! is an Equivalent of Yahoo! in Japanese Language.

Yatta! (Yari + Mashita = Yatta.) Say Yatta! loudly and clearly, raise your both hand with both thumbs up. When I searched Internet / googled, first found and used PhpNuke, and later found Drupal and Joomla (removed PHPnuke, sorry guys at PHPnuke), I said Yatta! loudly and clearly.