Drupal
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Drupal is a content management framework, content management system and blogging engine which was originally written by Dries Buytaert and is the software used to power Debian Planet [1] (http://www.debianplanet.org/), Terminus1525 [2] (http://www.terminus1525.ca/), Spread Firefox [3] (http://www.spreadfirefox.com/) and Kernel Trap [4] (http://www.kerneltrap.org), among others. Drupal is written in PHP using strict coding standards.
Drupal is the English spelling for the Dutch word 'druppel' which means 'drop'.
Though it started as a small bulletin board system, Drupal has become much more than just a news portal, thanks to its flexible architecture. Drupal has a basic layer, or core, which supports pluggable modules that enable additional behaviors. The modules available for Drupal provide a wide assortment of features, including e-commerce systems, workflow, photo galleries, mailing list management, and CVS integration. Drupal's taxonomy/classification module is especially interesting, in that it allows any content to be classified with a flexible tagging system.
Some of the more special roles that Drupal has filled include company intranets, online classrooms, art communities and project management. Many feel that Drupal's focus on user communities is what makes it stand out from its competition.
Drupal was also the basis for DeanSpace, a content management system used to power websites supporting the 2004 presidential campaign of Howard Dean. After the Dean campaign ended, that project grew into CivicSpace, also Drupal-based, a "grassroots organizing platform that empowers collective action inside communities and cohesively connects remote groups of supporters."
There are several customized Drupal distributions. Most of these are just prepackaged with extra third party modules, but some contain modifications to the core too:
- DrupalEd (http://cyberdash.com/node/311): aimed at using Drupal as an online classroom.
- Drupal For Bloggers (http://james.seng.cc/wiki/wiki.cgi?Drupal_For_Bloggers): aimed at bloggers, in particular ex-MovableType users.
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See also
External links
- Drupal website (http://www.drupal.org/)
- 2005 Drupal Conference (http://drupal.org/drupal-conference-2005)
Communities centered around Drupal development
- Spanish Drupal community (http://www.drupal.org.es/)
- Russian Drupal community (http://www.drupal.ru/)
- Hungarian Drupal community (http://www.drupal.hu/)
- Italian Drupal community (http://www.drupalitalia.org/)
- Drupal.it - Italian Drupal community (http://www.drupal.it/)
- DrupalCenter.de German Drupal community (http://www.drupalcenter.de/)
- Japanese Drupal community (http://www.drupaljapan.com/)
- CivicSpace labs website (http://www.civicspacelabs.org)
Companies built around Drupal
- CivicSpace Labs
- Bryght (http://www.bryght.com/)
- Webschuur.com (http://www.webschuur.com/)
Nonprofit communities built around Drupal
- Progressive U (http://www.progressiveu.org)
Service sites
- Drupal Theme Garden - community for Drupal design (http://themes.drupal.org)
- Documentation for developers (http://drupaldocs.org)de:Drupal