Drupal

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Template:Infobox Software Drupal is a content management framework, content management system and blogging engine which was originally written by Dries Buytaert as a bulletin board system. Drupal has become much more, thanks to its flexible architecture, and is the software used to power Debian Planet, Terminus1525, TPM Cafe, Wikinerds Portal, Spread Firefox, and KernelTrap, among others. Drupal is written in PHP using strict coding conventions.

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Meaning of Drupal

Drupal is the English spelling for the Dutch word 'druppel' which means 'drop' (as in, 'a drop of water'). The name was taken from the Drop.org website (now defunct), whose code slowly evolved into Drupal. Dries actually wanted to call the site 'dorp' (Dutch for 'village', referring to its community aspects), but made a typo when checking the domain name and thought it sounded better. The project was started in 2000.

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Content Management System

Drupal has a basic layer, or core, which supports pluggable modules that enable additional behaviors. The modules available for Drupal provide a wide assortment of features, including e-commerce systems such as the Amazon Items module, workflow, photo galleries, mailing list management, and CVS integration. Drupal's taxonomy/classification module is especially interesting, in that it allows any content to be classified with a flexible tagging system. Drupal achieves clean integration between the core and the modules via a system of hooks, or callbacks, to allow modules to insert functionality into Drupal's path of execution. Drupal core provides protection against many usual security problems, like SQL injection. Its security team can be contacted at security@drupal.org.

Some of the more specialized roles that Drupal has filled include company intranets, online classrooms, art communities and project management. Many feel that Drupal's focus on user communities is what makes it stand out from its competition.

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DeanSpace

Drupal was the basis for DeanSpace, a content management system used to power many independent websites supporting the 2004 presidential campaign of Howard Dean. After the Dean campaign ended, the DeanSpace project grew into CivicSpace, a Drupal-based "grassroots organizing platform that empowers collective action inside communities and cohesively connects remote groups of supporters."

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Distributions

There are several customized Drupal distributions. Most are simply drupal repackaged with third party modules, but some also include modifications to the core.

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Books

Drupal has been discussed in several books.

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See also

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External links

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Communities centered around Drupal development

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Companies built around Drupal

Note: this section is about companies who do most of their development on Drupal and contribute back to the Drupal project. This is not a place to spam just any site that uses Drupal.

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Service sites

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Other noteworthy Drupal implementations

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