Drupal 7.14

Drupal is one of the Powerful Content Management System

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Thiyagarajan Veluchamy

Drupal is software that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to set up scores of different kinds of web sites. Drupal is open source software licensed under the GPL, and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers.

After comparing Drupal to its major competitors (Joomla, mainly, followed by PHP Cake and Zend) I have made a faster-than-anticipated decision to invest my time and effort into using Drupal as the basis for my proprietary-coded PHP game's community.

I will add however, that when I say Drupal is 100x better than Joomla, I am speaking to PHP coders and those who can reverse-engineer bugs to keep their site running smooth. But if you don't know how to code, what the hell are you doing building your own PHP/SQL driven community anyways? Hire a programmer, our job titles pretty much sum up what we're here for.

I agree with teks. Installet today and having playet around about 3 hours and still havent managet to do anything. I dont know allmost anything about html,css,php or whatever, only the basics. This is for pro coders etc, not for the masses like wordpress.

Hey Bo, you haven't looked at Drupal good enough. It can do almost anything that you need in matter of minutes. e.g.: I have a website that different clients can log-in and see only what is assigned to them. I did that in less than 2minutes!
This is only the start, once you get into the 'mood' of Drupal then everything becomes really simple, fast and powerful.

Drupal was a huge dissapointment, regarding restriction to content (really non-existing or lame work-around).

Am I the only person needing a CMS where an article only is viewable to a specific group (of users) ?

This is a great CMS.

From a developers point of view, it has the perfect amount of out of the box functionality to be considered a framework/platform. Then add on the great API documentation at api.drupal.org, and all of the books that have come out. You really can do anything.

From a designer standpoint, Drupal shines just as well. With the theme engine it has, themers can be as granular or strong as they want. For themers (with a few exceptions), the Drupal basics go along way. If you know the template systems basic behaviors and how to print a PHP variable, than your good to go.

this is so simple, but I know it could help other..

Drupal is the best CMS in the world.

Drupal is the best and powerful and robust than any other CMS. With variety and loads pf modules and themes u can create a interactive website in minutes.Little knowledge over PHP and MYSQL makes u a topWebmaster.

Drupal is certainly not simple. It has a *tremendously* steep learning curve, and anyone that tells you that you will be up-and-running, and developing totally customised sites within a couple of months, is just not being realistic. If you are very dedicated, you can learn to setup and configure a functioning, full-featured Drupal site within that time period, for sure. That means, learning how to install and configure the core package, then learn about all the different modules out there, learn how to install and configure those, and learning how to install and configure templates (site design themes), too.

The problem is, although there are *hundreds* of modules available for Drupal, the vast majority has problems, ranging from design flaws, through bugs, to security risks, as pointed out below. Modules often conflict with one another, and with the core.

Drupal is a rather well-established (ie., old) project in the CMS community. Unfortunately, this means that the code base is also quite dated - ie., Drupal is *not* object-oriented, and although much discussion has been made in community about it, the decision-makers have decided to keep it that way.

All of this means, that while getting a Drupal site up-and-running may be trivial, truly *customising* it - ie, changing built-in functionality by developing your own modules, or even designing your own templates - is nightmarishly difficult. The abundance of expensive tomes that you can buy attest to just how 'friendly' the api is.

Finally, the Drupal community, in my experience, certainly has lots of helpful people, and people working very hard at trying to make the product better. Unfortunately, not everyone in the community is welcoming of newbies. The experience described by the poster below (complaining of unfriendliness) is a very, very common one, and I for one would certainly advise anyone from trying to get support help on Drupal irc or forums, not unless you've already read at least 'Pro Drupal Development', and put together a couple of sites.

Although I've now invested a lot of time in Drupal, ultimately I would strongly advise anyone new to the CMS scene to invest time and effort with the project. There are certainly better, and easier, tools available, with more supporting communities. I would suggest beginners look at alternatives such as the wonderful 'Website Baker', for very simple, static sites. Slightly more complex sites can be built with easier alternatives, such as Silverlight. For truly customised solutions, I would not hesitate to recommend MODx - its community is absolutely outstanding. Any of these solutions would give you a better, more polished final product - IMHO - would require less learning time, and would certainly give you a lot less stress.

nice and simply cms. its work great for web designer

I repeatedly have trouble accessing the demo. It constantly says username/password not recognized.

Any comments would be appreciated.

In the PHP world, Drupal comes with many great features. But, the biggest problem I had with it was the way it indexes the site - it needs to be indexed via a cron job, otherwise new content isn't available in search. That's a bit of a pain and shouldn't be an extra step.
Some very nice sites have been created with Drupal - to me Joomla sites all kinda look the same.

Hi, in few words, i started in november 2007 using Drupal, with very poor Php, Css, Js, Jquery knowledge. In addition I'm no native english, so said that I got my first production site commission for 3000$ in December 07 and delivered the Portal on the 15 February 2008. So that speaks for what learning and working Drupal means to me. Thanks to all the Drupal Community !!!