Ways to get COD

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

1. The speedy way (recommended)
2. The command-line way (harder)
3. The module-by-module method (flexible)

The speedy way: Download the packaged COD distribution

There are two places to obtain the packaged COD distribution:

1. Drupal.org
2. usecod.com

Benefits

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

Drawbacks

• Doesn't receive 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).

Prerequisites:

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

Make files

• 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 -y dl drush_make
   

3. Setup your folder structure: (Note: this is to store the D6 version of COD)
   

       $ cd ~/Sites/ (or wherever you usually setup your localhost sites)
       $ mkdir mysite
       $ cd mysite
   

   Download the code:

     git clone --branch 6.x-1.x http://git.drupal.org/project/cod.git
   

4. 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. Run the build-cod.make:
   

     $ drush -y make cod/build-cod.make
     $ rm -rf cod
   

6. Go to your actual Drupal install in your browser and at /install.php, as you'll need to select the COD profile (D6). If you like to do the install from the command line use the following command.
   $ drush site-install cod --db-url=mysql://username:password@localhost/db_name
   replace username,password & db_name with your database login credentials.

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