Modules
Operation: administer -> Site builidng -> Modules
In the above diagram, the list of modules which comes along with drupal package is available. Some of the modules are enabled and some are disabled. It is upto the user that the modules can be enabled/disabled.
To Enable, the checkbox to the ticked.
How to add a new module
- To add any new module, go to the website http://drupal.org/project/Modules
- For example, a module called as webform is being downloaded to create forms in the webpage, to download go to this link http://drupal.org/project/modules?text=webform
- A file with an extension of .tar.gz will be downloaded. Which can be extracted through a standard software called as winrar for windows. Linux has the default extract of such files.
- Copy the folder webform/ which is extracted from the above step and put it into C:/wamp/www/drupal/modules
- After the folder is copied, refresh the module enable/disable link
- Enable the module by tick the checkbox
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It is a better choice to put the contrib modules & themes into the sites folder ie “/drupal/sites/all/modules”.