Drupal Features – Most people were unaware of

Drupal is a free community-built website development tool. It is gaining adoption all over the world and is also regarded as one of the best website frameworks available. Drupal is an English translation of a Dutch word “Druppel” which means drop (as in water droplet).

721,200 users and developers are working on developing this open source software. It is used to build everything from personal blogs to enterprise applications. Any site can be developed and designed with the help of thousands of add-on modules and designs. This open source software is constantly improving with the help of thousands of passionate people around the world working on this software; it is free, flexible and rich with features.

It was originally written by Dries Buytaert as a message board, Drupal became an open source project in 2001. There is a large and rapidly growing community developed around Drupal, and they are working on improving the software and supporting its usage.

• There are five basic layers of Drupal:• Data – These are nodes (articles, comments, users)• Modules: Plug-ins to expand the site’s functionality• Blocks and Menus – Provide output for sections of a

page, which could include navigation• User Permission – control what users can see and do.• Themes- Templates rendering the site in XHTML and

CSS from the underlying data.

• Drupal Statistics:• 1,400 themes on Drupal.org• 14,462 modules available• 761,244 people helping develop• 228 countries using• 181 languages involved.

• It has also won many awards for being the best CMS among all others.

• Drupal received one of the “Webware 100” awards for the publishing category by CNET Webware in 2007.

• It also won the 2008 Webware award in the same category.

• In 2009, it won the best open source PHP content management system for the second year in a row.

•Drupal again won the “Webware 100” award for the third year in a row.•It won the Bossie Award for being the best open source application in 2011

Never hack core is the phrase we often hear from Drupal community or see it on t –shirts. It is used to provide safety warning. It is one of the most important and best practices for Drupal.

• No matter how easy it is to modify or amend the core files, it is not advisable to do so:

• This will make it impossible to apply site updates like security and bug fixes.

• It makes it difficult for the next person accessing the site.

• It might leave the site vulnerable to exploits.

• The Drupal core has been designed to be modular; hence, there should not be any reason to hack it. However, if there is a feature one wants and can’t be accomplished outside of modifying core; one should consider submitting the hack as a patch. One can create an issue and submit it to the Drupal community to take it forward.

• These are few of the features and functionalities, you always wanted to know.

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