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Drupal 3419

Drupal is an open source content management framework (CMF) written in PHP and distributed under the GPL license. It allows users to build websites, applications and online communities. Some key features include integrated blogging and forum functionality, taxonomy, search, and a customizable architecture supported by over 600 modules and 250 themes. Drupal has a large global community and powers websites for organizations like MTV, Warner Bros, Forbes and Greenpeace.

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Drupal

Isriya Paireepairit
markpeak at gmail dot com Thailand Open Source Festival #7 Bangkok Convention Center 2 August 2007

me
Webmaster of Open Source Evangelist Technology Columnist

User

Drupal

What is

Drupal is
full-featured CMS many claim: CMF
(Content Management System) (Content Management Framework)

What can it do?


Community Web Site Weblog Forums Social Network Site Wiki/Knowledge Base Business Web Application

System Requirement
PHP Apache/IIS MySQL/PostgreSQL

Oracle support is coming IBM is working on DB2 support

AppServ is recommended for Windows Lighttpd works as well

History & Status

Drupal History
Started in 1999 by Dries Buytaert (Belgium) Current version is 5.1 Roadmap Drupal 6.0 - 2007 Drupal 7.0 - 2008 Open Source - GPLv2

Naming druppel
pronounces {Dutch} means

drop
{English}

Drupal
{English}

Druplicon

Druplicon Cookie

Source: http://buytaert.net/happy-sixth-birthday-drupal

Project Status
600+ developers for Core 800+ developers for Contributution 600+ modules 250+ themes 40 languages localization (including Thai)
source: knaddison.com/book/export/s5/475

Download Statistics

source: buytaert.net

Drupal Books

source: drupal.org/books

Events and Conferences

Why Choose

Drupal?

Pros
Most basic CMS features are included Highly Customizable Plenty of Modules Good Architecture and API Good Documentation Performance Good Community

Drupal vs Joomla

source: buytaert.net

Cons
Learning Curve few Themes Lack of Commercial Support (in Thailand)

Community support available at Codenone.com

PHP knowledge needed

Drupal Learning Curve

source: buytaert.net

Features
Blog, Forum included Searching built-in RSS support Multi-language Statistics, Tracking, Logging, Reporting Caching included
source: drupal.org/features

(Killer) Features
Installer with Proles Taxonomy/Category/Tag Friendly URLs (Optimized for SEO!!) Theme with Color-changable
source: drupal.org/features

Comparison Matrix

source: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-osource1/#N10245

Case Study
Note: All images in this section are from buytaert.net

MTV

Warner Bros.

FOX

Forbes

PlayStation

Ubuntu

Hillary Clinton

Green Peace

and...

Playboy Germany

Installation

Demo

Architecture

source: Drupal Booklet

Contribution Modules

Core (Optional) Core (Required)

Core (Requires)
Block - box display Filter - input format Node - content System - admin, theming, ... User Watchdog - logging

Core (Optional)
Blog Comment Forum Menu Locale (translation) Path (URL alias) Poll Prole (User page) Search Statistics Taxonomy (Tag) Upload

Block

Menu

Theme

Presentation

Taxonomy

Node User
Comment Content Type Content Module

Role
User

System
Locale System

Modules

Core
Path Taxonomy

Contributions
Pathauto Tagadelic CCK Views Workow Actions Schedule

More Resources

Download
Drupal.org Main Program Modules Themes Translations

Documentation
Drupal.org Installation Manual Example Case Code Snippet

Support
No commercial-support in Thailand Drupal.org Forum Bug Report Drupal Groups Codenone.com (Drupal User Groups) Forum

Druplicon Cake

Source: http://buytaert.net/happy-fth-birthday-drupal

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