drupal/drupal
Drupal
Drupal is an open-source enterprise content management system and PHP web application framework. It provides a toolkit for creating digital experiences through custom content types, blocks, and an extensible administrative interface.
The platform is designed for enterprise web publishing, managing complex website hierarchies and digital assets across multiple languages. It supports multilingual website administration through content translation and the import of locale files.
The system includes capabilities for managing user permissions, controlling access to unpublished content, and calculating security risks. It also provides tools for web content optimization and the delivery of cached content to improve resource efficiency.
Features
- Enterprise Content Management Systems - Provides an open-source platform for creating, organizing, and publishing content across large organizations.
- Multi-Language Websites - Manages websites that serve content in multiple languages through translation workflows and locale file imports.
- Locale File Import Workflows - Supports website administration across multiple languages through content translation and locale file imports.
- Database Abstraction Layers - Ships a database abstraction layer that wraps SQL queries in a PHP API supporting multiple database drivers.
- User Permission Managers - Controls access to content and features by defining roles, permissions, and security policies for different user groups.
- Entity-Based Cache Tags - Provides a cache tag system that automatically invalidates cached content when related entities are updated.
- PHP Application Frameworks - Provides a PHP-based framework for building extensible web applications with an administrative interface.
- Permission Management Systems - Controls access to content and manages user permissions with security risk calculation capabilities.
- Role-Based Access Control - Evaluates user permissions against a bitmask of system-defined and custom permissions for granular access decisions.
- Content Entity Definitions - Defines custom content types and fields through PHP hooks without requiring code generation.
- Annotated Class Discovery - Loads reusable functionality from annotated PHP classes discovered in module directories.
- Cascading File Resolution - Allows front-end templates to be overridden by theme files using a cascading file resolution system.
- Field-Level Translation Storage - Stores language-agnostic base content with per-language field translations in a shared database schema.
- Tree-Based Route Resolvers - Resolves HTTP requests by matching URL paths against a tree of registered route callbacks with parameter wildcards.
- Web Application Frameworks - Provides a PHP framework for building extensible web applications with an administrative interface.
- Digital Asset Management Systems - Organizes and delivers media files, documents, and other digital resources across the content system.
- Caching and Delivery - Improves website speed and resource efficiency through content caching and delivery optimization techniques.
- Content Management Systems - Enterprise-level content management framework.
