Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Installation of Drupal module of my choosing...

After reviewing the available modules under development for 6.x I decided to install the morelikethis module. It only took me about five minutes to find the download file name (found here http://drupal.org/node/316767). I followed the same command convention as given to us in the exercises. After entering the command one time, I got an error message. I looked closely but did not notice a typo. I almost got depressed and thought I had to go back and find another module but I decided to give it another try. As luck would have it, second try was the charm! (Could it have been a typo?#$% - well who cares it worked so moving on...) My next minor challenge was trying to configure it. I found some hints on the readme file (found here http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/morelikethis/README.txt?view=markup&pathrev=DRUPAL-6--1). The challenge that I wasn't able to overcome was how this actually works after a search is conducted because I still don't have a search box on my Drupal site. I'm not going to let this go because I want to see how it works. I'll be back... : )

1 comment:

Bruce Fulton said...

Do you have search enabled? Administer >> site building >> modules, then look for core - optional and make sure search is checked.