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Drupal
Home page of a default Drupal installation (with a Lorem Ipsum article).
Latest release:	5.2 / July 26, 2007
OS:	Cross-platform
Genre:	Content management framework, Content management system, Community and Blog software
License:	GPL
Website:	http://drupal.org

Drupal (IPA pronunciation: [druː pʰʊɫ]) is a free and open source modular content management system written in the programming language PHP. A content management system (or CMS for short) is a web application that handles the displaying of content without any special knowledge (or in some cases none) of the language the system was programmed in, which in this case is PHP.

Drupal is able to run on a number of different platform environments, assuming the system can run one of the two web server systems, Apache, or IIS. Since Drupal, like other content management systems, uses a database to store content and settings, it requires a database package such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.

As of July 26, 2007, the current version of Drupal was 5.2.^[1]

History

Originally written by Dries Buytaert as a bulletin board system, Drupal became an open source project in 2001. Drupal is an English transliteration of the Dutch word