By babistine on

Am using drupal 7.x and how do i install new modules or theme onto my project. pls kindley show me the process to do that and i will be grateful. am trying it but it is showing me an error message as:

Unable to create directory 'temporary://update-extraction/pathauto/'
this message shows when i try to upload new module "pathauto" into my project.

thanks. Waiting.

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jordojuice commented

Go to your site directory and in sites/all/ create two new directories named "modules" and "themes". These are the directories in which Drupal looks for modules and themes. So these directories are where you will upload addon modules and themes respectively. Simply by placing a theme folder in the sites/all/themes directory it will show up in your themes, and by placing modules in your sites/all/modules directory they will show up in your site modules for activation.

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jordojuice commented

Also, be sure to unpack the zip file and upload the theme or module folder and contents themselves.

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babistine commented

thanks you it's working pefectly now.
Rgds

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jordojuice commented

Great! Glad to help.

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babistine commented

which module do i install to get a marquee feature for displaying news on my site.
waiting for your help soon.
Thanks.

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jordojuice commented

That's a good question. I think that is something you would want to add at the theme level. To my knowledge there are not any modules for that, but there sure are plenty of scripts around the internet. If you wanted it on your front page you might paste the code into page-front.tpl.php for Drupal 6 or page--front.tpl.php for D7. Alternatively, you could paste the code into a block in the region you want the marquee in and set the display to . Hope this helps.

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babistine commented

can u show me this code that i can download or copy to my D7.X project pls.
thanks

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jordojuice commented

I just googled "marquee" and found plenty of html code snippets for free online. Just Google and look around for the one you want.

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babistine commented

i need an urgent help as to how i can transfer my website from localhost to web server for live surfing.
Am waiting.Pls i will be very grateful if you will show me the process downwards.

Rgds

Patrick

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jordojuice commented

Check out this module for help with that process http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate