This document provides an overview of the open source content management system (CMS) Drupal. It discusses Drupal's history as a message board created in 2001, describes its basic features and architecture, lists some major websites that use Drupal, and outlines the requirements and process for installing Drupal including the necessary web server, database, and PHP components.

1. Nirbhay Narayan Upadhyay
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2.  Introduction to Drupal
 Brief History of Drupal
 Release History of Drupal
 Basic Drupal Features
 Architecture of Drupal
 Websites run on Drupal
 Requirements for Installation of Drupal
 Conclusion

3.  Drupal is an open source CMS based on PHP and MySQL
 It can be installed and run on any server with Apache, MySQL
and PHP (including Linux/UNIX, Windows and Macintosh)
 It also runs on PostgreSQL (another open source Database
system)
 It has an extremely active developer community, with lots of
resources available
 It has become arguably the most popular open source CMS for
nonprofits

4.  Drupal is more developer friendly than it is user friendly (for site
building, primarily)
 This makes it extremely flexible and powerful
 It makes it possible for developers to create feature rich sites
 It makes it very difficult for nonprofits to build websites on
Drupal on their own
 However, organizations can maintain Drupal sites quite well
once trained

5.  It was originally written by Dries Buytaert as a message board
 It was created originally as a bulletin board system, and open
sourced in 2001
 It has had broad adoption since version 4
 It is now on version 7.0 (point upgrades happen every few
months)
 Many sites are still built with Drupal 5 because some modules
haven't caught up.

6.  Drupal 4.7-May 01,2006
 Auto-complete form
 Free tagging
 Multiple block regions
 Drupal 5.0- Jan 15,2007
 Web based Installer
 Updated Admin Pages
 U.R.L filtering

7.  Drupal 6.0-Feb 13,2008
 Open Id support
 Localization feature
 Drag & Drop admin
 Drupal 7.0-jan 05,2011
 Improved image handling
 More secure handling of tasks
 New default theme

8. What can Drupal be
 blog
 Forum
 Online newspaper, Portal / Directory
 Brocure site, portfolio, flickr like photo drop
 Social community site, job post board
 Video site like youtube
 Project management site
 CRM, ERP, SCM, Wiki
 Shopping cart system
 E-learning, training site
 Dating site
 Anything you can think of…

9.  Over 10 years of development
 Millions of downloads
 Over one million drupal.org members
 Hundreds of thousands of sites
 Almost 1,000 contributors to Drupal 7
 Over 5,000 contributed modules

11.  Wikipedia/www.wikipedia.org
 Yahoo!/www.reserch.yahoo.com
 Harvard University/www.harvard.science.harverd.edu
 NASA/www.appel.nasa.gov
 Eclipse/www.eclips.org
 PayPal/www.paypal.com
 Twitter
 Facebook
 Whitehouse/www.whitehouse.gov
 At&t/www.att.com …and hundreds of thousands more

12.  Web Server-Apache 2.2.17
 Database Server-MySQL 5.5.8/higher
 P.H.P 5.3.5
 Php MyAdmin 3.3.9
 FileZilla F.T.P Server 0.9.37
 Tomcat 7.0.3
 Drupal 6.2/Drupal 7.0

13.  Drupal is open source and free content management system
which has made it very popular
 Drupal is a powerfull,free, and complex program. the
abilities of this program are limitless
 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 offer a sophisticated programming interface for
developer, no programming skill are required for basic
website installation and administration