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About Drupal…

• Drupal is– a Content Management System (CMS)– a Content Management Framework

(CMF)– a Web Application Framework (WAF) – under the GPL General Public License

(GPL) - open source

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About Drupal…

• Dries Buytaert is the original creator and project lead of Drupal

Today a large community helps develop Drupal

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About Drupal…

• CMS AWARDS ’08

– Best PHP Open Source CMS from Packt Publishing

– Best Overall 2008 Open Source CMS Award for Second Year in a Row

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General features• The"Drupal core" contains basic

features common to most CMSs– customizable layout– personalization environment – multi-level menu system – multi-user content creation and

editing– flexible account privileges

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– various access control restrictions (user roles, IP addresses)

– includes a hierarchical taxonomy system wich•allows content to be categorized• tagged with keywords for easier

access.

– access statistics and logging – advanced search functions

General features

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• Modularity and extensibility • Multi-platform

– Apache / IIS / Unix / Linux / BSD / Solaris / Windows / Mac OS X support

– Database independence - use with MySQL and PostgreSQL

Patform

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• Poll module• Templates from HTML and PHP • Threaded comments • Version control system • News Aggregator• Blogger support• Web based reports and

administration

Management

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Language• Content with three types :

– English– Hungarian – neutral

• Why gets mixed the content? – The system is independent of the

language, the author defines it! – Everything appears what the author

wrote.

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Appearance

content defined by the author

languagechange

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Appearance

list offresh, active

content

header menu

side menu

content

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Content

All of the contents in a chronological

order

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After login…Customizable

layout

fresh content

display

side menu

layout

add new

content