What is Drupal 7?

Drupal refers to a free open source content management framework (CMF) and content management system (CMS) that are written using PHP and distributed with the GNU General Public License. Drupal software began to work in 1999 as a message board after which so many people were interested to work in Drupal. In 2001, it came online as open sources services and Drupal community became so popular in 2005. Its primary use is to look for a backend system that range from personal blogs, to government, political and corporate websites. You can also use this framework and system in both business collaboration and knowledge management. The main components of Drupal are the most basic features that you can find in content management systems. Among these are menu management, registration and maintenance of user accounts, page layout customization, system administration and RSS feeds. Drupal 7 is the updated and latest version from Drupal community and services providers. Drupal 7 provides the strong foundations for transforming the designs into Drupal themes with full support of .info and tpl.php template files that provide the guidelines for adding CSS and JavaScript in the source code. Drupal 7 supports multiple web services platform which are capable of running PHP including Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, Cherokee or LiteSpeed etc. It also supports databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, SQLite, or Microsoft SQL Server to store content and settings. It offers a lot of essential tools that are extremely useful in finding, structuring, organizing and reusing your contents.