Drupal is a popular content management system (CMS) developed by Dries Buytaert and is known for its lightweight structure and extensive library of contributed modules. It supports multiple databases and operating systems, and allows for easy extension of its core functionality through modules and themes. The document also discusses key features such as its MVC structure, user permission management, and file directory structure essential for installation and customization.

1. The Born And Biography What is Drupal?

2. What is CMS?

3. Drupal was born by experimental effort of Dries Bytrate and its friends.

4. It was named by combining two words drop and pal.

5. It have earned the good name in worlds most popular, stable and well built CMS in few years.

6. Webware 100 - 2007, 2008, 2009

7. Packt Publishing 2007 Best Overall Open Source CMS

8. Packt Publishing 2008 Best Overall Open Source CMS.

9. Packt Publishing 2008 Best PHP Open Source CMS.

10. 2009 best Open Source CMS Award

11. Hall of Fame Award in the 2009.How Its Different Then Other CMSInitial package size. ( near about 1.5 Mb with is 1/10th then popular joomla CMS)Light weight (You will feel it when work).Large quantity of contributed modules are available. You can find lot lotlot ready made modules on drupal.org if you don’t which saves lot of time.Follows strict MVC structure. If you want to use this CMS without care of coding standards then please be away. This CMS is not built for you then.Perl script support for checking your modules coding standards. You can check your code for coding standard using Perl script provided with drupal. I think this is for Linux based plate form only. Following is the command to check your script.Multiple site with single package is possible which reduce disk usage as well as resource usage.Well built menu section.Reliable and extended user permission management.Easy to extend core functionality without affecting core code.Database Switching.Compatible with MySql, PGSQL and SQLLite. Not need to change your queries when you change data type. Nice database abstraction layer.