It is a fact that drupal development is about a free open source CMS (content management system). It is distributed under general public license and is written in PHP. At the very minimum one percent of the websites around the world, use this as a back end system. These websites could be a small blog all the way up to large corporate and government sites. It is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration.
The standard version contains the standard features that are typical to most content management systems. These would include system administration, page layout customization, RSS-feeds, menu management as well as user account maintenance and registration. The installation can be utilized as a brochure ware website, a community website, an Internet forum or a multi user or single user blog.
Since July 20, 2010, there are more than fifty eight thousand free community modules available to extend and change the core capabilities of this application. The appearance and behavior can also be changed. Because it has plug in extensibility, it is sometimes referred to as a content management framework. It can also be referred to as a web application framework. This is because it passes the standards required for such frameworks.
This application will run on any computing platform that supports a database and a web server. Examples of the database would be PostgreSQL or MySQL, while the server-based examples would be PHP 4.4.0+ and this would include nginx, Lighttpd, IIS and Apache.
Dries Buytaert originally wrote this as a message board. In 2001, it became an open source project. The name comes from the Dutch word druppel, which means drop as in a drop of water.Buytaert did want to call it dorp for Dutch village. This was due to the application’s community prospects. While checking for the domain name a typo was made and this is why it is known as drupal development.
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