Drupal Tutorials #11 - Installing Your First Module - Pathauto

hey what's up this is Scott with the level up Hut's and today we're gonna pick up where we left off the last lesson with URL aliases and what we're gonna want to accomplish is setting up patterns so that when we create new content our URLs are going to be nice and clean to accomplish this we're gonna have to install our first module and maybe a couple others so to install our first module what we're going to do is we're going to go to drupal.org and under here we're going to search for this particular module that we're looking for is called path auto typically though if you want some sort of functionality and you're trying to accomplish it in in some sort of way yeah you know you just want to go to the search bar search for modules and see what you can find actually I think path Auto spelled with one word okay here it is okay so this is your basic module page here you'll find all sorts of things notice this says requirements it's going to require this token module as well so I'm just going to open this in a new tab for after we do this so here you can find all sorts information about the version the the known issues recommended modules over here you have issue reports and bug reports if you're having problems typically you can come in here and see if other people are having those problems as well and there's usually their bug fixes or patches or look basically hopefully somebody is also having that problem so that you can troubleshoot and get to the bottom of what the problem is so if we go down here and you'll see downloads this is just like where you download a Drupal core here there's recommended versions of their releases and development releases what we're going to download is the most recent recommended for Drupal 7 and so this is 7 X 1.0 and just grab the zip of this it's going to download it so as we can see this path auto file is in my downloads if we go to our site it's in htdocs' tea we're gonna go to sites and then inside of here you'll have all in default inside of all there's a modules folder this is where you're going to be putting this entire path Auto folder so you're just going to drag and drop this into your modules we now have it there as you can see prior to this tutorial I've also dropped in a couple C tools and jQuery update and views these are all ones we're going to be using you know when we go over those lessons I'll just have you install them then but for now you know don't worry about it okay so under requirements it's also said that we need token which I've opened here and token is another module so some modules are required by other modules and some modules have requirements and basically sometimes to achieve one bit of functionality you have to install a couple of different modules that work together to achieve what you're looking for so we're gonna grab this recommended this one right here and same thing we're going to unzip it then we're going to throw out right in our modules folder if you notice in your site's main folder not your site's folder itself but in here there's also a modules folder this is not where you're going to be wanting to add contributed modules this is where modules like the core modules live so don't worry about this modules folder don't put them in here put them in sites all modules okay so now that our modules are in their module folder we're gonna go back to our site and in our site we're gonna click this modules link that's in your admin bar okay this is just saying there's updates for some for some modules hmm well not worry about that right now so we'll scroll all the way down these are all the modules we have installed right now and we're gonna find path auto and token which are the two that we just put in here and we're going to check both of these boxes and we're going to click Save and configure save configuration and pen options have been saved will cook out of this now we're going to go back to configuration searching metadata to URL aliases and you'll notice now at the top here there's pattern settings book update delete aliases so these are a lot more options than we had before let's click patterns and here you'll see that you can set up patterns so right now the default pattern for all content types is it's going to say content slash node title well we just want this to say no title okay I'm going to copy this and for all article paths we're also going to just leave it at the default so we don't have to put anything there and then basic pages we're going to leave it as the default however for projects I want my projects to live in a in a path that says projects or spell that correctly project and then slash node title so now when we save these it's going to always say projects and then whatever the node title is if you notice these replacement patterns these will get a little bit complicated to show you all sorts of things you can use like node title you can also use node ID content type all this stuff is available for use if you click through these you can see what's all here but right now we're just going to use node title and keep it simple in taxonomy it's going to be term vocabulary we don't need to change any of these because we're just worrying about our pages right now so save and continue okay so now if you would expect to go to our projects page you'd expect to see the new URL well that's not the case that doesn't update any of your old nodes just the ones from here on out so to update all of your old nodes let's go to find content and then we're going to select all of our files and under update options if you select this drop-down you'll notice there's an update URL aliases so this is going to essentially take all of them and then put them through the patterns that we have made before and get them to what we need them to be okay it's updated four of them now if we go back to our page let's go to our home page click projects it's now st slash projects about is now slash about this is perfect is exactly what we wanted and if we create any new pages from here on out it's going to follow the same pattern okay well now you just learned how how to install your first module so feel free to pop through drupal.org and see what kind of cool little bits of functionality you can throw into your site and what sort of great things you can accomplish it should really open your mind up to the power that Drupal has also you now learned how to have clean URLs and have those all looking nice to set them up from here on out okay once again it's the Scout with level of tuts thanks for watching

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Length: 7min 25sec (445 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 25 2012