Installing Drupal

I'm working thru " Drupal 7 Development by Example - Beginners Guide" as it provide a walk through using Xampp, GIT, Drush as well as an intro to Drupal development. I'm working under WinXP.

After making a vanilla (no post install customisation/configuration) download and install of xampp, git & drush using now current materials, the reader is instructed:

<<<
Open the Drush command prompt application, and type the following command:
cd /xampp/htdocs

Now, we are going to use Git to locally clone the Drupal core Git repository into a new d7dev folder (this will take a few minutes
$ git clone http://git.drupal.org/project/drupal.git d7dev
>>>

Running this command under Drush fails with "$ is not recognised as n internal ommands

Running the command under GIT Bash works AOK except the D7DEV is cloned to c:\documents and settings\user\d7dev which means Apache cannot find it because it should be in xampp/htdocs

If I copy folder d7dev into xampp/docs manually then it works fine and I can run the /localhost/d7dev to kickoff the drupal config process, however, I've just broken the git maintenance environment.

I have a really serious problem.
The following message appears when I want to assign roles / permissions:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 3813699 bytes) in /var/www/domain/user1/modules/user/user.admin.inc on line 787

Is installed approx.: 24 modules. There are 26 (so far) users and 18 roles.

Do I read wrong / understand it wrong?
It does look like there is enough memory.
What is then the problem?
/willy

Hi All,

I have installed Apache 2.4.2 , Mysql 5.5. and PHP5.4.11 ,..all of these are up and running fine. But when trying to install drupal after that,I am getting an error stating "check PHP extensions" , from which i found that php_pdo.dll is no longer available in php/ext folder and infact php-pdo.dll is inbuilt in the latest versions of PHP(in my case php 5.4.11). But the drupal is looking for php_pdo.dll in php/ext.

can any one help me with some links or videos which will help me to learn custom d7 theming from the html scratch ....

what am asking is....

is there any major difference in template files, any additional files ??

when I install drupal8, apache report a serious problem,

PHP Fatal error:  Call to a member function get() on a non-object in /var/www/drupal8/core/includes/bootstrap.inc on line 893, referer: http://xxxx.com/drupal8/core/install.php?langcode=zh-hans&profile=standard

how can i avoid it?

I need help urgently I have 6 websites urls are http://achisite.com http://webtvstreams.com http://myjoygames.com http://esnaper.com http://chudaipk.com http://how-to-romance.net now I want to install drupal on my servers but whenever I try to intall it then it shows this error database name