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What is Drupal?
Drupal is a CMS (Content Management System)
Drupal is an online editorial content management platform offered under Open Source license. It allows an organization, which wishes to send its messages, to easily place editorial content online – texts, images, documents, multimedia objects in a website, intranet, extranet.
Drupal offers a very rich palette of modules that allow you to add functionality to the website (forums, forms, blogs, editors, calendar, surveys …) as well as a large number of “display templates” – themes – for the display of content in the public part of the site intended for the Internet user.
Drupal benefits from the support of a global community of users and developers, in particular French-speaking, because Drupal was originally developed in Belgium.
The name Drupal probably comes from the name of its creator ( Dr ies B u yt a ert, Belgian citizen).
Furthermore, and this is sure, Drupal pronounced in English (drupêl) corresponds to the Dutch / Flemish word “druppel” which means “drop”. This is the reason why the Drupal logo represents the head of a character in the shape of a drop of water.
How is content structured with Drupal?
You may already be accustomed to other CMS such as, Joomla.
These tools offer a “pre-formatted and basic content tree”: section (section) / sub-section (subsection) / content (article).
None of that with Drupal …
And that makes things less easy to grasp at first, but it is – in fact – fairly easy to understand if you follow it well.
Drupal offers (basic) 3 types of content-related objects (types of content).
- The article
- The basic page
- The book page (which is not activated by default but it does not matter)
For these types of content, it is possible to organize the fields or to create others.
In addition, Drupal allows you to create as many types of content as desired with as many input fields as necessary.
An object “manipulated” by Drupal is a node (or node) determined by its node number (or ID) which corresponds to its registration number in the tables of the database.
Example: node / 36 corresponds to the title content article “description sheet”
Content ranking
To be clear; by default, the notion of content tree does not exist with Drupal, and to put it simply, the content of a site with Drupal is ultimately only a “good big pile of nodes”
Thus our previous node / 36 “The description sheet” does not know (as in other CMS) that it is linked to the sub-section “permanent members” which is itself the “daughter” of the “members” section.
This “seems” to be a disadvantage because thus the absence of tree structure makes the private part less easy to grasp. It is the webmaster who chooses the locations of its content in the public part of the site.
This disadvantage becomes an advantage when the Drupal philosophy is well understood. Drupal is thus more “open” than other CMS in the management of content by the webmaster.
to summarize
With Drupal
- All nodes are “free and equal in law” … there are no groupings (type of section / articles).
- No node is – by default – connected to another.
- The work philosophy is thought of ” types of content ” rather than ” grouping “.
- Drupal gives the webmaster the freedom to define their own groupings as they wish.
- With Drupal, you have to think ” access ” rather than ” classification “
To do a little “philosophy”, a ranking will always reflect what the organization “wants to say”, but not necessarily what the user “would like to hear”. Yes, but I still want to “prioritize” my content
Drupal anticipates this situation in three ways.
- Taxonomy
- The concept of book
- The notion of content type
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