I’ve recently started developing with the Drupal content management framework. \u00a0I did a lot of work with Drupal in the past, but haven’t done much work with the platform since Drupal 6. \u00a0While it still feels a bit strange coming from MVC frameworks and more expressive languages, it seems like Drupal and PHP have come a long way in offering a fluid development experience in the last few years. \u00a0This is how I set up my development environment in Ubuntu 12.10, though it probably works for newer releases of Ubuntu or other Debian-based Linuxes.<\/p>\n
# Add the PHP5 PPA\r\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej\/php5\u00a0\r\nsudo apt-get update\r\n\r\n# Install PHP5. \u00a0This will also install a recent version of Apache\r\nsudo apt-get install php5\r\n\r\n# Install PEAR, this will make it easier to install drush\r\nsudo apt-get install php-pear\r\n\r\n# Install drush via PEAR\r\npear channel-discover pear.drush.org\r\nsudo pear channel-discover pear.drush.org\r\nsudo pear install drush\/drush\r\n\r\n# HACK: The first time I ran drush it needed to install some dependencies via PEAR, \r\n# but I ran drush as my user so I didn't have permissions to write to the global PEAR\r\n# directory. \u00a0Work around this by running drush with sudo and then chmoding your\r\n# ~\/.drush directory back to your own user. \u00a0You can probably just install the\r\n# dependencies using PEAR.\r\nsudo drush\r\nsudo chown yourusername:yourgroupname -R ~\/.drush\r\n\r\n# For local development, I like using SQLite\r\nsudo apt-get install php5-sqlite<\/pre>\n# drush dl\/en needs crul
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