Questions tagged [drupal-7]

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Drupal 7 is the Drupal version that was officially released on January 5, 2011.

Requirements

  • Web server: Apache, Nginx, or Microsoft IIS
  • Database server: MySQL 5.0.15 or higher with PDO, SQLite 3.3.7 or higher Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle are supported by an additional module.
  • PHP: PHP 5.2.5 or higher (5.3 recommended)

Notes

  • The standard PHP extensions (enabled by default) Hash and JSON are required by Drupal 7.
  • Drupal 7 Update manager can install/update modules and themes via SSH if the required libraries have been installed on the server. If you have administrator rights on a Debian/Ubuntu server, and SSH is not already available (see your phpinfo) it can usually be installed by executing: apt-get install libssh2-php.
  • PHP Data Objects (PDO) must be activated for Drupal 7 to install and run correctly. Look in your php.ini. Uncomment (remove the leading semicolon) at line extension=php_pdo.dll, extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll. In Linux, these would be extension=pdo.so, and extension=pdo_mysql.so. Some Linux distributions may have these extensions by default in files found in the conf.d folder. If these lines are not there, you will need to add them. The PECL version of PDO is not compatible with Drupal 7 and cannot be used. More information can be found on What is PDO?.
  • Drupal 7 may require the time parameter to be at least 30 seconds.
  • Drupal 7 is not the latest release of Drupal and it will reach its end of life in November 2021.

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How Drupal works?

Could someone provide a architectural overview of the Drupal 7 control flow? Perhaps in the sense of a flowchart about how a page gets generated. What additional resources would you suggest consulting with regards to how Drupal works?
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Adding text (just text!) to a form in Drupal 7

OK, I finally figured out how to add (or edit) form controls through the form API in Drupal. But now, I would like to add text to a form. Not a