Comments on: Drupal 4.7.0 Released

By: JFK

JFK — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:20:51 +0000

In spite of Drupal isn’t easy to install and have a high learning curve, it is great, stable and powerful CMS system. Drupal is more then just blogging platform. I like some great featrues like friendly URL or Threaded comments.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 03 May 2006 16:06:27 +0000

I run my online magazine and blog on Drupal 4.6, and it’s incredibly powerful. I had a list of things to develop for my site, but I might hold off and bungle through the upgrade first. I’m glad to see it mentioned here, Darren.

By: TLB

TLB — Wed, 03 May 2006 05:43:33 +0000

Correction to the above: “The core functions are preceded with some identifier naming it as a Drupal function and the module they’re in” is reversed: they are NOT preceded with some sort of Drupal identifier.

By: Arun Kumar

Arun Kumar — Tue, 02 May 2006 21:52:17 +0000

If you want a blog only site, go with WordPress, MovableType etc, but if you a blog/news site with CMS features, then go with Drupal. You can run multiple installations from the same database.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 02 May 2006 13:59:34 +0000

I used Drupal on my business site late last year and it is a great system to use as a non-developer. Ultimately I had my heart set on a MovableType blog and moved across after a short time experimenting with Drupal 4.6. If I were to ever go back to a CMS, Drupal would be right up there in my list of candidates (together with Joomla/Mambo).

WordPress and MovableType are great pieces of software but they are not CMS’s of the same ilk as Drupal and the others.

By: TLB

TLB — Tue, 02 May 2006 07:36:31 +0000

It’s also one of the most “procedural” (vs object-oriented) systems I’ve ever worked with. The core functions are preceded with some identifier naming it as a Drupal function and the module they’re in, and there’s basically just two “levels”: the files in the includes directory and the modules. And, the modules are interdependent, with node calling taxonomy which calls node, etc. And, all the magic constants.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 02 May 2006 07:12:25 +0000

to be fair I wouldn’t call drupal a blogging platform, it’s more on a CMS with strong blogging abilities.

I think a few people actually called Drupal a CMSMS — a content-management-system management system. It is a nice platform for PHP developers to build their own CMS with ease. Very extensible.

By: jhay

jhay — Tue, 02 May 2006 07:10:58 +0000

I tried drupal once, it’s cool. But I found WP to be more easier to tweak around, I’m not that fluent in PHP yet. But this new version will certainly be fun to play around with.

By: Regan

Regan — Tue, 02 May 2006 06:59:31 +0000

I know what you mean Paul. We’ve been waiting for this for a long time too! Hopefully the upgrade will be painless… however, I fear the worst

By: chase

chase — Tue, 02 May 2006 06:15:57 +0000

It nice to see that there are a lot of different blogging tools out there to choose from.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Tue, 02 May 2006 03:52:32 +0000

to be fair I wouldn’t call drupal a blogging platform, it’s more on a CMS with strong blogging abilities.

By: Paul -V-

Paul -V- — Tue, 02 May 2006 03:44:55 +0000

Happy day! Happy day! My site runs on Drupal v4.6. I’ve been waiting for this upgrade for months.

I won’t be writing content the rest of this week, I’ll be tweaking my site with the best damn CMS on earth.