Drupal is a content management system (CMS), which was originally developed by Dries Buytaert and in the meantime in the most different ranges of application world-wide is used.

Drupal is free software and stands under the GNU general Public License. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL or PostgreSQL as data base.

Name and Logo

The name "„Drupal "“is the English discussion of the Netherlands word "„Druppel "“, which means in the German drop.

The official Logo is the so-called Druplicon. It developed after the idea to use a water drop as Logo. This should work however comichaft and have clearly again to be recognized. Therefore two into one another merged drops, which look like an infinity character, represent the eyes in the face of the water drop. Thus the almost infinite application type are to be represented by Drupal.

Characteristics

With Drupal, as also with other content management systems, contents can be placed in Internet and worked on simply. Drupal differs from other CMS particularly by the conversion from beginnings a Social software and supports thereby the structure of Communities, which work together on contents and over topics to exchange itself and want to inform. So users can put on for example own Weblogs, in forums exchange themselves or articles publish.

By the simple publication of own and common contents with a differentiated rolling and right system it supports in particular beginnings of the Community Buildings.

Drupal is available since 2001 as open SOURCE. Because of the integration of characteristics of a Social software Drupal finds active interest and world-wide employment for smaller to medium sized Websites to the most diverse ranges of topics of most different complexity. Beside well-known CMS like e.g. Mambo/Joomla and Typo3 have it with its specific beginning a place under "„the large "“"“PHP were based open SOURCE CMS to establish to be able. Drupal has a strong on-line Community, which supports its members actively. In addition there are enterprises, which offer commercial support and operate development professionally also in the German-speaking countries.

Drupal is considered as world-wide at most assigned CMS.

Structure and functions

The open SOURCE CMS Drupal consists of a core (dt. core), which basic functionality supplies, and modules, which if necessary by the administrator the system be added can, in order to integrate special functionality. The core is characterised by high quality and efficiency and is subject to an intensive quality control before distribution. The system can be adapted by the multiplicity of the available modules to most requirements of a CMS. Because of the complexity of the system conflicts between individual modules can develop.

By the modular structure of Drupal versatile ranges of application are present. The list is enough from "„one-man web pages "“as bspw. personal Weblogs is responsible for only one person, up to on-line Communities with those thousands user is announced and at new contents works together.

In the following the typical areas of application for the CMS Drupal are described:

Web log

An individual person can develop Blog "“a Web log as an exclusive user of the CMS with the help of the module "„. It is however just as possible that several users a Website divide "„"“and everyone has its own Web log, administered with an Drupal installation.

On-line Community

On-line Communities are web pages with those a great many users, everyone with their own account for the organization and contents of the Website are responsible. Articles can be provided or discussed in a forum. Everything that is with Drupal and unites auxiliary modules possible. An administrator and moderators are responsible for the monitoring and the smooth operational sequence.

Gemeinschaftsproduktionen

Over bspw. other open of SOURCE projects to develop can be used Drupal the co-operation and be supervised the Versionierung of the project to compile tasks apportionable and documentations.

Books

The left on the part of in a linear structure is often problematic in hypertexts and/or CMS. Here type of contents offers "„"“with Drupal a simple possibility to Book of writing and of administering (together) coherent pages of a book - without the overview of losing.

Selected characteristics

• Sophisticated taxonomy system for the horizontal and hierarchical categorization of contents
• Role-based right system
• Versionierung of contents
• Tree-well-behaved (English threaded) commentating possibilities
• Permalinks - each side is attainable over firm (itself not changing) URL
• Clean URLs - Drupal can produce human being and machine-readable URLs (e.g. for search machines)
• Inserted full text search function
• Drupal is data base independent (MySQL and Postgres are usual)
• Inserted Caching mechanisms help with overloaded Web servers
• Numerous Themes makes large adjustment possible of the layout
• Language attitudes (also multilingual Sites) by localization data
• Binding at LDAP server Authentifizierung
• Multisite ability: Structure of isolated Websites on an installation
• starting from version 4.7: Integration of Ajax features

Selected modules

Drupal can be extended by a multiplicity of so-called modules, so that one re-tools almost arbitrary functionality "„"“can.

• ADDRESS module: Address data bank
• Event module: Date administration with calendar functions
• FCKEditor /HTMLArea /TinyMCE module: Simple WYSIWYG treatment of articles
• Flexinode module: Simple production of own contents types
• Location module: Access to map material, distance computation etc.
• Web link module: Administration of Related links with link monitoring

Literature

• Robert T. Douglas, Mike Little, Jared W. Smith: Building on-line Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress. Apress, ISBN 1-59-059562-9
• Hagen count: Drupal. Addison-Wesley, Munich, ISBN 3-82-732321-5

Related links

• Drupal.org - Drupal web page English
• DrupalCenter.de - German-language Drupal Community
• Drupal.de - German-language Drupal side
• Drupaldocs.org - Drupal API documentation
• Themes.Drupal.org - Drupal Theme guards
• Drupal Security.de - safety-relevant information for Drupal on German

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