Drupal
Drupal is a free and
open-source platform and content management system written in PHP
for
building dynamic web sites offering a broad range of features and
services including user administration, publishing workflow, discussion
capabilities, news aggregation, metadata functionalities using
controlled vocabularies and XML publishing for content sharing
purposes.
Equipped with a powerful blend of features and
configurability, Drupal can support a diverse range of web projects
ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven sites.
People and organizations are using Drupal
to power scores of different web sites, including:
- Community web portals
- Discussion sites
- Corporate web sites
- Intranet applications
- Personal web sites or blogs
- E-commerce applications
- Resource directories
- Social Networking sites
- Aficionado sites
Features include:
- Polls - enables admins and/or users to create
polls and show them on various pages
- Templating - separates content from presentation
allowing you to control the look and feel of your Drupal site
- Threaded comments which provides a powerful
threaded comment model for enabling discussion on published content
- Version control - tracks the details of content
updates including who changed it, what
was changed, the date and time of changes made to your content and more
- Access statistics and logging
- Advanced search functions
- Caching and feature throttling for improved performance
under load
- Comments, forums, and polls
- Descriptive URLs - uses Apache's mod_rewrite to
enable customizable URLs that are both user and search engine friendly
- Modules
- Multi-level menu system
- Multi-site support
- Multi-user content creation and editing
- OpenID support
- RSS Feed and Feed Aggregator
- Security/new release update notification
- User authentication
- User profiles
- Various access control restrictions (user roles, IP
addresses, email)
- Workflow tools (Triggers and Actions)
- Online help
- Personalization
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