New Drupal 6 Environment

I know most of you will be eager to get going at the moment, and might well prefer to dive straight into making modifications to your Drupal site. Before we do so, we can take a few moments to read over this section to gain an appreciation of how everything is put together behind the scenes.

Having a basic knowledge of how the various technologies co-operate in order to produce a working Drupal site will help immeasurably in the long run.

Take a look at each of the individual underlying technologies we will be using:

PHP: PHP, or PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, is the language in which Drupal is written. PHP is widely used on the Internet for a multitude of different projects and is renowned for its ease of use. The current version of PHP is PHP5, which is what we will use in this book.

It is strongly recommended that you use PHP5 from now on because support for PHP4 will soon be discontinued and Drupal 7 will no longer run on anything less than PHP5!

The good news is that we will not have to delve deeply into programming code in order to build a site—Drupal handles most, if not all, of the complex programming issues.

Apache: This is the web server we will use to serve web pages during the development phase. Apache is the most popular web server on the Internet, with millions of live sites using it every day. In fact, as the Apache website says: It is more widely used than all the other web servers combined.

MySQL: This is the database software that we will use to store all the information required to keep the website running. Everything from customer details to product information and a host of other things will be stored in the MySQL database.

You must make use of MySQL 4.1 or a later version in order to work with Drupal 6.
Keeping with the trend of popularity, MySQL is also the world's most popular bit of database software with over six million active installations worldwide.
Apache2Triad is not the only package that is available. You might also
wish to try out the ever popular XAMPP distribution that is available at
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html.
Now that we know what we are using, it is important to take a quick look at how it is used. The following diagram shows a simplified view of how everything works, with the shaded section denoting the package containing the Apache web server, PHP interpreter, and MySQL database, with Drupal installed on the system:

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