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Here are the steps you need to take to get a copy of a Drupal website onto your local computer for development purposes, using the XAMPP stack and a variety of tools. Many of the steps taken here have been made so that you can keep your PHP files outside the standard htdocs DocumentRoot directory of the Apache server while maintaining whatever else you have running on your XAMPP installation. A mirror of this article is located here.

1) Install XAMPP software. This gets you Apache + MySQL all set up in a few clicks. Skip this step if you have both already set up (Drupal needs things like php and mod_rewrite in your Apache build.)

2) Download a copy of your production 'drupal' database to your local MySql server. I suggest using a program like Navicat MySQL since it handles UTF-8 data properly (unfortunately my favorite free MySQL client, SQLyog, seems to lack proper UTF-8 support).

3) Create a user on your local mysql database to match the remote connection settings and give them full permissions:

Hi,

I am new to Drupal and while struggling with it I have figured out a few things that I thought I might like to write down and publish somewhere here to make things easier for others who encounter similar problems.

Where should I publish such materials?

Hi,

I wonder if there is a list available somewhere of "Drupal environment variables", or variables (or arrays or objects) made available by Drupal to PHP scripts.

For instance, I noticed that there is a global $user object available and that $user->uid and $user->name (or maybe uname?) gives the current user´s user id and username respectively.

Thanks,

Thomas

Is there possiblity to relate customized drupal module development in our requirment based UML diagrams and documentations.

I am building a project using drupal. Is there a way to document all of my project. Can make use cases, sequence diagram, class diagram, webflow diagram.

Drupal can support class diagram?

Not sure if this is the right forum to post in, but I thought people might be interested in this. I started a new video podcast on getting started with Drupal. It's very much inspired by the nice Lullabot ones, and it's target audience is for people who are thinking about using Drupal, and just want to see how to get started visually.

If I make a comment on an issue, how do I follow it? I usually follow forum topics by looking at "my account" and then "track". But any comments I might have made directly to an issue don't seem to show up. However, if I start an issue it shows up.