Ways to get COD

Last updated December 3, 2012. Created by lisarex on January 14, 2011.
Edited by pcorbett, Steven Jones, tgeller, Senpai. Log in to edit this page.

There are three main ways to get the Conference Organizing Distribution:

• The speedy way (recommended)
• The command-line way (harder)
• The module-by-module method (flexible)

The speedy way: Download the packaged COD distribution

The majority of people should download the packaged distribution from usecod.com. It's:

• As easy to install as core Drupal
• Packaged with Drupal core and all required modules and libraries

The drawback: You won't get the benefit of improvements made since the latest package was created (which typically happens every few months).

The command-line way: Build it yourself using Drush and Drush Make

This method downloads COD and all dependencies. It's a great way to preview upcoming features in a development version of COD (cod-dev). However, you need to know how to use:

• The *nix command-line interface
• Drush
• Drush Make

Useful links:

• Cod stable make file
• Cod make file for developers

Steps

Note: These steps worked using versions that were current when this documentation was written: git 1.7, drush 4.5, and drush_make 2.2. Alter the instructions for later versions as needed.)

1. Install Drush, instructions are available on the Drush project page.
2. If you installed Drush 5 you can skip this step, otherwise install the Drush Make extension:
   
       $ drush dl drush_make
3. Setup your folder structure: (Note: this is to store the D6 and D7 versions of COD)
   
       $ cd ~/Sites/ (or wherever you usually setup your localhost sites)
    $ mkdir cod
   
   DRUPAL 7: Download the code:
   
     git clone --recursive --branch 7.x-1.x http://git.drupal.org/project/cod.git /path/to/install
4. DRUPAL 6: Run the cod-dev.make:
       $ cd cod/cod6
    $ drush make --working-copy 'http://drupalcode.org/project/cod.git/blob_plain/refs/heads/6.x-1.x:/cod-dev.make' cod6
   
   Note: this should download Drupal core as well as all of the modules you need to install COD.
5. DRUPAL 7: Run the build-cod.make:

   drush make /path/to/install/build-cod.make path-to/new/cod-site

6. Go to your actual Drupal install in your browser and at /install.php, it will automatically install based on the COD profile (in D7) or you'll need to select the COD profile (D6).

The module-by-module method: Download the individual cod_support modules

At the core of COD's functionality are the cod_support modules. You can download these modules from the cod_support project. If you clone from Git or use the development snapshot, you can have the latest version of these features. Simply download cod_support, and enable the features you want using the Features module interface at admin/build/features.

• Download and enable only the features you want
• Makes it easy to add COD functionality to an existing Drupal site
• Drawback: You have to download module dependencies