Drupal Development

India is an offshore software development center, Drupal (Content Management System), PHP-MySQL development and open source programming center. New challenges are always accepted by well skilled web developers and programmers in India. They are also resolving them and moving ahead. Well skilled and expert developers, web designers, expert PHP developers have motivated in India especially in outsourcing development market.

Drupal is a free and open source modular framework and content management system which is written in the programming language PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor). Drupal word is translated from Dutch word “druppel” which means drop. Originally Drupal is written by Dries Buytaert as a Bulletin board system, Drupal became an open source project in 2001.

There are so many Content Management Systems available but Drupal is very famous and user friendly. Drupal gives the permission to the system controller to arrange the content, modify the appearance, computerize administrative tasks, and handle site guests and contributors. It is a very sophisticated programming interface; most of the tasks can be achieved with small or no programming. Drupal is also known for web application frameworks, as its abilities expand from content management to allowing a wide range of services and transactions. A large community helps develop Drupal, From May 2006 to April 2007; Drupal was downloaded from the website more than 6,00,000 times.

Drupal is environment friendly with all operating systems, runs very well with Apache and IIS server. MySQL or PostgreSQL is used to store the content to manage the Content Management System. The common features are available in default configuration which is great help to web developers, web designers. They can also extend the features by using plug-ins and add, edit and delete the content. Any audio or video files, content, electronic documents can be managed easily by the administrator.

Drupal’s modular design is praised by web administrators, designers and programmers as well. All functions and presentation can be added through pluggable modules and themes. It also presents with the facility to categorize the content, post and review the comments, custom search is also provided, develop multi-level menus, can dynamically contribute in forums, blogs, RSS feeds, grant user access and access control, caste polls, post new content, updated existing ones, can re-write search engine friendly URLs and generate the reports.

The community of Drupal has donated by giving many free modules which can be distributed among the Drupal and other users of the community. Successfully developed and mostly used modules include workflow features, organic groups, Google sitemap, e-commerce, photo galleries, and mailing list management.