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Drupal is a modular content management system, forum, blogging and community engine. It is database driven and can be used with MySQL, MySQLi, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. Its features include (but are not limited to) discussion forums, Web-based administration, theme support, a submission queue, content rating, content versioning, taxonomy support, user management with a fine-grained permission system based on user roles (groups), error logging, support for content syndication, locale support, and much more. It is considered to be an excellent platform for developers due to its clean code and extensibility, and it can also be used as a Web application framework.

Tags	Internet Web Dynamic Content Site Management Communications Software Development Libraries Application Frameworks
Licenses	GPLv2
Operating Systems	OS Independent
Implementation	PHP jQuery

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7.18

28 Dec 2012 21:57

Release Notes: Resolves a vulnerability that allows blocked users to appear in user search results, even when the search results are viewed by unprivileged users. An arbitrary PHP code execution vulnerability was also fixed in the file upload module.

6.27

28 Dec 2012 21:57

Release Notes: Resolves security issues with an access bypass in the user and upload modules as well as arbitrary PHP code execution in the file upload module.

7.15

17 Sep 2012 21:03

Release Notes: This is a maintenance release. It includes bugfixes and small API/feature improvements only (no major new functionality); significant new features are only being added to the forthcoming Drupal 8.0 release. No security fixes are included in this release. Besides documentation fixes, no changes have been made to the .htaccess, robots.txt, or settings.php files in this release, so upgrading custom versions of those files is not necessary.

7.14

03 May 2012 09:25

Release Notes: This is a maintenance release to fix 17 miscellaneous bugs.

7.13

03 May 2012 09:25

Release Notes: Security vulnerabilities related to a denial of service, unvalidated form redirect, access bypass in the forum listing, access bypass for private images, and access bypass for content administration were fixed.

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22 Aug 2012 04:01

domperignon

Great modular CMS. You can build anything with it. Easily customizable and well documented.

23 Mar 2009 14:33

msimanga

This is a very very good CMS as evidenced by the awards it has recieved. It is so clever it will take you a while to understand. I only truly began to appreciate it after six months or so on and off use.

I am conducting a survey to determine how much code Drupal implementers actually need to write. The advent of modules such as CCK, Views, Organic Groups, Workflow, Ubercart, E-Commerce, Panels and Actions along with a dozen or so other modules has a empowered web developers with the ability to create sites writing little or no custom code. Is this true? If you are Drupal user please take the survey at www.mahalasoft.co.za

29 Nov 2007 02:27

Gear7

Drupal
I love Drupal's layout. Everyone I see says Drupal is hard to use, but I find it the easiest of all the mainstream CMS's to use. I can get things done much easier and faster in Drupal than I can in Joomla. I guess some minds just work differently.

28 Jan 2006 03:01

honewatson

I recommend you try Drupal
A real easy installation with cpanel fantastico hosting!

Plus heaps of ported themes coming over now including themes from wordpress.

A great all round CMS plus has decent scalability.

25 Oct 2005 03:57

sethcohn

Drupal's concept explained - why the CMS is unique
One thing I've found is that newbies often don't grasp the basic concept of Drupal's structure...

Almost everything is a node of information. Nodes tend to be individual blog posts, articles, images, reviews, what have you, based on the modules installed. Flexinodes allow creating new custom node types without coding, and coding a new module is fairly trivial, thanks to a well thought out and evolving API.

Addon modules allow customizing nodes, through either adding properties (location, product sales, voting, tags, excerpt, group membership, rsvp, event time/date, eg), or adjusting module content (content filtering, display properties, permissions, pdf output, eg)

Think of it like tinkertoys: the basic concept is just spokes and hubs, but the complexity is up to you, and the choices are wide ranging. The more options you put into practice with Drupal, the more it will pay off for you in terms of a complex website that scales well.

Unlike many CMSes, there is no glass separation between modules: if your event calendar suddenly needs to be able to sell tickets to the events, just turn on the e-commerce module, tell it those events are products and you're off and running. If a blog post turns into a chapter of a book (or part of a series), just add it to that book's content, just tagging it correctly, and it'll be indexed in the correct tree, gaining navigation links as well.

Layout is very very flexible, using blocks of content, and a variety of choices of templating engines. Many Drupal sites tend to use standard layouts, but that doesn't mean yours has to look the same at all. CSS is widely used and well documented with the ability to customize almost every bit of data displayed.