CiviCRM is a Drupal Package for managing memberships, donations, etc. The hope is to use it to handle the membership management needs we've had going for a long time - but without having to create a whole bunch of custom content types ourselves.

Problems

CSS isn't perfect in Safari, especially for administration forms, using Firefox is recommended. If this affects public/non-admin pages then we'll have to fix the css somehow

Install CiviCRM

Following instructions from the CiviCRM 1.8 install for Drupal

unzip tar ball into ~/src/civicrm

Create Folders for Drupal

Create folders with write permissions:

/var/www/html/files/civicrm/crm_docs/
/var/www/html/files/civicrm/templates_c/
/var/www/html/files/civicrm/upload/

cd /var/www/html/files/
sudo mkdir civicrm
sudo mkdir civicrm/crm_docs
sudo mkdir civicrm/templates_c
sudo mkdir civicrm/upload
sudo chown -R apache.apache civicrm

Drupal Page Caching

To disable page caching for CiviCRM pages, added to /var/www/html/sites/osgeo.org/settings.php:

$conf = array(
  'file_directory_path' => conf_path() .'/files', // not needed for this, but probably exists
  'page_cache_fastpath' => 1,
);

function page_cache_fastpath() {
if (substr($_GET['q'], 0, 7) == 'civicrm' || substr($_GET['q'], 0, 4) == 'user') {
    global $conf;
    $conf['cache'] = CACHE_DISABLED;
  }
}

Set Up Database

I chose to keep the CiviCRM database separate from Drupal.

Install CiviCRM Code

Verify your PHP version: 4.3.9
Verify MySQL version: 5.0.27
Downloaded appropriate tar ball from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=177914
Unzip and moved to drupal modules folder

sudo mv civicrm /var/www/html/modules/
sudo chown -R apache.apache /var/www/html/modules/civicrm

Load CiviCRM Database

cd /var/www/html/modules/civicrm/sql
# Following uses _41 file even though mysql is ver 5
mysql -u civicrm_user  -p civicrm_database < civicrm_41.mysql
# Following loads default sample contacts, re-run above to have the db cleared after testing
mysql -u civicrm_user  -p civicrm_db < civicrm_generated.mysql

All ran without any trouble.

Edit CiviCRM Configuration File

cd /var/www/html/modules/civicrm
cp civicrm.settings.php.sample /var/www/html/sites/osgeo.org/civicrm.settings.php
Edit this file and set various settings where needed, in particular each of these lines was edited:
define( 'CIVICRM_UF_VERSION'       , '4.7' );
define( 'CIVICRM_UF_DSN'           , 'mysql://drupaluser:PASSWORD@localhost/drupal_db?new_link=true' ); # Drupal DB
define( 'CIVICRM_MYSQL_VERSION', 5.0 );
define( 'CIVICRM_DSN'          , 'mysql://crmuser:PASSWORD@localhost/civicrm_db?new_link=true' ); # CiviCRM DB
$civicrm_root = '/var/www/html/modules/civicrm/';
define( 'CIVICRM_TEMPLATE_COMPILEDIR', '/var/www/html/files/civicrm/templates_c/' );
define( 'CIVICRM_UF_BASEURL'      , 'http://www.osgeo.org/' );

Enable CiviCRM Module and Blocks

In Drupal admin menu, select Modules and turn on civicrm. Do the same with Blocks. This should be all we need.
Set Access Control for CiviCRM in the normal Drupal access control admin menu. For now, admins and project managers can add/edit contacts, etc.

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