Publisher review:Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including
- Community web portals
- Discussion sites
- Corporate web sites
- Intranet applications
- Personal web sites or blogs
- Aficionado sites
- E-commerce applications
- Resource directories
- Social Networking sites
Drupal is ready to go from the moment you download it. It even has an easy-to-use web installer! The built-in functionality, combined with dozens of freely available add-on modules, will enable features such as:
- Content Management Systems
- Blogs
- Collaborative authoring environments
- Forums
- Peer-to-peer networking
- Newsletters
- Podcasting
- Picture galleries
- File uploads and downloads
and much more.
General Features:
Collaborative Book - Our unique collaborative book feature lets you setup a "book" and then authorize other individuals to contribute content.
Friendly URLs - Drupal uses Apache's mod_rewrite to enable customizable URLs that are both user and search engine friendly.
Modules - The Drupal community has contributed many modules which provide functionality that extend Drupal core.
Online help - Like many Open Source projects, we can't say that our online help is perfect but have built a robust online help system built into the core help text. Available to you on your own site.
Open source - The source code of Drupal is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public License 2 (GPL). Unlike proprietary blogging or content management systems, Drupal's feature set is fully available to extend or customize as needed.
Personalization - A robust personalization environment is at the core of Drupal. Both the content and the presentation can be individualized based on user-defined preferences. Role based permission system - Drupal administrators don't have to tediously setup permissions for each user. Instead, they assign permissions to roles and then group like users into a role group.
Searching - All content in Drupal is fully indexed and searchable at all times if you take advantage of the built in search module.
Changes in version 6:
Quick and easy setup Installing Drupal is now a snap, since the new installer guides you quickly through the process. You can even import translations of the Drupal interface from within the installer and enjoy Drupal in your own language right from the start. You'll be posting content in minutes!
Drag-and-drop administration Use drag-and-drop to create and manage your site's menus. Move blocks around to change the content on your pages, or organize books intuitively by dragging pages within an outline. The drag-and-drop interface is available for menu items, forums, taxonomy terms, uploaded files, input formats, profile fields, and more.
All languages spoken here! Translate posts to different languages through an easy interface. Have Drupal automatically choose a language for the interface based on a custom URL, a user setting or browser preferences. Take advantage of left-to-right and right-to-left language support directly "out-of-the-box".
Actions and triggers Need a custom workflow? Want to send customized e-mails when a post is created or control how posts are published? Automate your processes with just a few clicks using the new and powerful "actions" feature. No programming knowledge required! Actions are available for posts, users, comments and more.
Sign in with OpenID OpenID support is built in, making it even easier for your visitors to become a member of your site. OpenID is a free and easy way to use a single digital identity across the internet. With OpenID, login to all your favorite websites and forget about the online paperwork.
Update status module Always know when new versions or security fixes are available. The update status module stays in touch with drupal.org to keep you informed of new versions of Drupal, your modules and your themes.
CSS-only theming Define regions, dependencies and features with simple theme .info files without writing a line of PHP code, opening the door to slim CSS-only themes.
Customize your theme Want to change how something looks? Almost all themeable content now uses separate template files written in simple HTML, so just copy a template to your theme directory and modify as desired. No coding - no hassle.
Enhanced preprocessing Preprocessing functions free themers from maintaining PHP code (the template.php file) in themes. Themes remain just as flexible as before and with improved, comprehensive documentation, are even easier to use.
A unified approach Drupal 6 extends its themeing support and automatic translation features to interface elements provided by JavaScript.
Changes in Version 6.2:
Drupal 6.2 is a maintenance release that fixes problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as security vulnerabilities. The security issues identified were in code new to Drupal 6, and are therefore not applicable to sites running on Drupal 5. What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ] · SA-2008-047 - Drupal core - Multiple vulnerabilities · #225880 follow up by webchick: improve error message when writable settings.php is not present · Patch #275801 by Damien Tournoud and Gribnif: fixed performance issue due to typo. · Patch #281943 by webchick, Arancaytar, dropcube et al: order install profiles alphabetically. · Patch #285467 by mustafau: fixed typo a MT blog API function. · Patch #238600 by scor: removed two unused links from context-sentive help. · Patch #268491 by mustafu, pwolanin, et al: fixed notice after deleting aggregator feed. · Patch #293434 by eMPee584 and Damien: fixed broken watchdog call. · Patch #254725 by Steve Dondley and BioALIEN: maxlength field for 'allowed HTML tags' is too short · Patch #290918 by pwolanin: don't unset project info during processing. · Patch #165642 by Damien Tournoud: error in SQL syntax in user.module. · Patch #246522 by mustafu, Dries: fixed typo in documentation. · Patch #283806 by mustafau, Aron Noval: improved error handling in drupal_http_request(). · Patch #290869 by Wim Leers: AHAH functionality was not working for radio buttons. · Patch #293421 by Bart Jansens: fixed documentation of sess_count(). · Patch #290869 by swenterl, cwgordon07: fixed notice in #ahah handling. · Patch #293343 by Bart Jansens: removed obsolete table name from documentation. Candidate for Most Trivial Patch of the Month Award. · Patch #293504 by Damien Tournoud: fixed search on PostgreSQL - argument of AND must be type boolean, not type integer. · Patch #283806 by mustafau: fixed bug in drupal_http_request()
Drupal 7.31 is a PHP script for Content Management scripts design by drupal.org.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris and has as system requierments: PHP 5.3 or higher
Web server (Apache, IIS)
PHP XML extension
PHP register_globals: off
Database: MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite (MS-SQL and Oracle supported unofficially)
PHP Data Objects (PDO) ac.
Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.
Requirements: PHP 5.3 or higher
Web server (Apache, IIS)
PHP XML extension
PHP register_globals: off
Database: MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite (MS-SQL and Oracle supported unofficially)
PHP Data Objects (PDO) ac
Operating system:
Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris
Drupal 7.31 script details 
