Drupal

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Note; oldish, to rework.

Drupal started out in 2001 as a forum CMS, but has evolved into a strong middle-of-the-road CMF (GPLv2). Its framework benefits from a well-balanced module, development ecosystem. There are a variety of basic levels of abstraction, with fields, entities, bundles for content, and hooks pretty much all the way down that other modules and themes can work with, building a network of possibilities. Bunches of module state+configuration can be saved as a Feature, and make files and install profiles are used to build and provision new sites.

Use cases

It's used by a wide variety of organisations for a large number of purposes;

whitehouse.gov, economist.com, grammy.com, pythonline.com, ubuntu.com, mtv.co.uk, warnerbrothersrecords.com, popsci.com, appdeveloper.intel.com, research.yahoo.com, corp.aol.com ...

to update

Overview

Provision

Development

  • Drupal dev docs - "Newcomers to Drupal development should read the conceptual information provided in the 'Components of Drupal' section, and then proceed to examine one of the heavily-documented example modules below. The examples are fully-functioning Drupal modules, so you can download them from the contributions repository and alter them as you experiment."

Forms

For beyond basic content types fields;

Modules, etc.

Content

  • How to display content nodes using Views 3: *to source again*

Social

News

Videos

Handy