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Drupal 4.6.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the drupal-carey-show dept.

ajayg writes "Drupal is IMHO one of the best open sourced Content Management Systems out there. The Drupal community has just released version 4.6.0 of their PHP based CMS which finally provides support for PHP5. The release follows 6 months of development, and includes -- among other changes -- better search function as well as usability improvements for permissions, block configuration, statistics tracking, logs, forum configuration, content administration, etc."

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  1. ... plone by dago · · Score: 4, Informative

    or to plone ? (which is my favorite opensource CMS)

    Compare with Drupal with xxx on CMS Matrix

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  2. Re:PHP-Nuke by styrotech · · Score: 5, Informative

    PHP-Nuke and PHP-BB are spaghetti coded nightmares with frequent security holes, and are a total pain to extend/customise.

    Drupal has a much cleaner core design with a good API and theme engines. It also has impressive metadata capabilities for organising content. And a friendly vibrant community with no big egos involved, and lots of available 3rd party modules.

    The only criticism I can think of would be that out of the box it is more of a blog style community portal than a static site CMS. It can do static site type stuff, but you will need to tweak it a little.

    It's also pretty fast - up there with the fastest CMS apps. I'd recommend checking it out.

  3. The most well designed PHP app by dolmen.fr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't know if Drupal is the best Open Source CMS, but at least it is by far the most well designed PHP application I've ever seen. The hook mecanism uses the PHP language symbol table to provide very good extensibility. It doesn't use PHP classes in its structure, but it is a strong point as this article shows: Drupal Programming from an Object-Oriented Perspective.

    I hope many open source PHP applications will reuse the Drupal architecture principles.

    1. Re:The most well designed PHP app by JonBob · · Score: 4, Insightful

      As the author of the article in question, I'd be happy to take some constructive criticism.

      Quick summary for the link-wary:

      • Drupal doesn't use PHP's classes, for a few reasons such as support for PHP 4 and problems with conditional code inclusion.
      • Drupal does have an architecture that reflects many of the underlying principles of OOP.
      • Drupal also implements many of the standard Gang of Four design patterns.
      • The designers are open to the use of OOP language constructs, so long as they don't require PHP 5 (Debian is still on 4.1!) and they aren't "classes for the sake of classes"; that is, they must provide a benefit that cannot be trivially realized using the current methods.