Baiganova A.M,
Kulmagambetova Z.K
Aktobe
Regional State University named K.Zhubanov, Kazakhstan
Control system of
site Drupal
By means of this system it is possible to build the
sites and web appendices of different function and difficulties. The interface
of the user allows to operate the sites on Drupal without knowledge of HTML,
web imposition and programming languages. Drupal is developed by the
international team of developers, as the software with the open source texts
protected by the public license GNU. The international site of the project —
drupal.org, on the site it is possible to receive information on Drupal. There
is a set of ways of management of contents of your web site, beginning from the
simple mechanism of web magazines (blog) allowing the limited publication of
contents to the full-function integrated applied system on the basis of which
you can create an own control system of contents
Drupal — this software allowing to publish, operate
and organize easily various contents on the web site. Drupal contains the
functionality allowing to create control systems of contents, blogs,
environments for joint creative activity, forums, information letters,
galleries of images, systems of loading of files and many other things
Drupal is the program with open source codes which
uses the license GPL, copes and developed by community of thousands of users
and developers. Drupal can be loaded and used freely. The control system of
contents of Drupal keeps the contents in a database. In the database contents
are stored in a type of knots (nodes) and other objects of high level, such as
users and comments. There are many various, predetermined types of knots,
including notes (stories), blogs (blogs) and votes (polls). Drupal forms the
page containing one or several fragments of information in the form of knots,
blocks and other elements. Each page usually consists of the central column of
contents with the left and right side panels (side-bars), and also has the top
headline, or heading (header), and the lower headline, or a footnote (footer).
Except for the central column other areas are optional. The central column is
used for display of the main contents of the site, and optional areas are
intended for additional contents. For filling of optional areas with small
fragments of information of Drupal uses blocks. Optional areas usually contain
navigation references (for example, the most popular knots) and other reduced
contents. Similar to any contents, blocks can be dependent on a role of the
user, providing, thus, a specialized type of information. One of the most
important functionality of Drupal is ability to expand types of available knots
(for example, for specific contents of your appendix) by writing of specialized
modules of knot. The separation of contents from representation is carried out
by system which forms subjects of pages on the basis of templates.
The most part of contents can be easily structured and
issued by determination of templates (or tpl), files and functions of a
subject. Nodes can be organized in category or a taxonomy. The appeal to any
contents is made through system of powers for access control and change of
contents of the web site.
The important concept in Drupal is that all contents
are stored in a type of nodes. They are basic functional units for system and
create the base which can be expanded with the contents which is stored in
Drupal. Creation of new modules of nodes allows developers to define and save
additional fields in a database which are specific to the specific site. Nodes
are classified according to their type. Each node type can be processed and be
visualized differently on the basis of option of its use.
The system of a taxonomy in Drupal allows to execute
classification of nodes that gives the chance to organize contents of nodes on
the displayed web page. Such division into categories can be also used for
change of navigation according to the web site. Categories are defined by tags
or elements (terms). Item collections can be grouped in the dictionary. Drupal can
classify automatically node contents with elements, or contents of a node can
be classified manually with use of the assigned dictionaries. Also Drupal
allows to use freely tags, allowing users to define own elements for node
contents.
Development of the site on Drupal differs in
efficiency, flexible setup according to wishes of the customer and opportunity
it is simple to make necessary changes to site contents, and also in case of
desire quickly to expand the site according to new needs of the company owner.
This system easily adapts the opportunities therefore practically any site
regardless of the volume of its contents and functionality ideally works at it.
CMS Drupal is one of the most popular content
management systems of the site in a pattern. Primary benefits of the site
created on Drupal:
• first of all the reliability of CMS Drupal allowing
not to worry about possible cracking of the site;
• openness of the source code CMS Drupal that allows
to upgrade easily system under the needs;
• extensive community of users of CMS Drupal which
participants are always ready to answer questions about CMS Drupal at
specialized forums;
• a set of ready expansion units of CMS Drupal and
subjects of design of CMS Drupal that allows to create quickly the site on CMS
Drupal without knowledge of any technical subtleties, including HTML and CSS,
not to mention PHP.
References:
2.Drupal 6 Search Engine
Optimization
3. David Mercer - Drupal 6.