One of the excellent and popular modules of Drupal CMS is the Views module. The power and feature of views is excellent and provides a flexible method for Drupal site designers to control how lists and tables of content, users, taxonomy terms and other data are presented. I can’t think any of my Drupal website without views and I mostly like this module. Based on the importance of this module views, I decided to publish some tutorial for all of the Drupal lover. For creating this tutorial, I use Drupal 7. If your Drupal website has a different version like Drupal 8 or Drupal 6 then do not worry. The tutorials are alike except the options are located to different places. To start publishing views tutorial, I would like to explain the installation method of Views.
Requirements:
- Drupal installed website
- Views module
Steps to install views for Drupal website:
Views module (a contributed add-on module of Drupal) can be obtain from the Drupal.org and you will will find a description about the module, links to its support page, download package, and sometimes, even documentation. These pages are found at http://drupal.org/project/Views.
From the Views page, there is more than one version of the module and we will choose the he Recommended version for our Drupal 7 website.
Step 1: Navigate to the Views project page at http://drupal.org/project/views and scroll down to the Downloads section of the Views project page. In the Views project page, you will find the following screenshot:
Step 2: From all these download option, we will choose the recommended release of Views for Drupal 7 website and we would download the package (ZIP or tar.gz) to our computer.
Step 3: When the download has been finished, we would decompress that and use an FTP client to upload the resulting Views folder to the directory, which is usually sites/all/modules of our Drupal website.
Step 4: Now, navigate to the modules admin page of your Drupal website which is located like admin/modules. For easy navigations, just click on the modules link of your Drupal website.
Step 5: In the modules page of your Drupal 7 website, you will find options like Views and Views UI. Just enable these two and click the Save configuration button.
Finishing the above steps, you can easily install views module for your Drupal website. I again like to say you that View is much much powerful module then all Drupal modules. As this module is much important, I would like to create some tutorials based on views. In this post, I just describe the installation process of Views module for your Drupal website. In the coming tutorials, we would explain lots of views tutorial.
