Developing for Drupal

As fantastic as these features are, they will certainly not satisfy the needs of all users. To that end, Drupal’s capabilities can be easily extended with modules, themes, and installation profiles. Take a look at Drupal’s main website, https://drupal.org/, and you will find thousands of modules that provide new features and thousands of themes that transform the look and feel of the application or website.

The flexible way Drupal can be extended and transformed through the module and theme mechanisms has led many to claim that Drupal isn’t just a CMS but also a Content Management Framework (CMF), capable of being re-tooled to specific needs and functional requirements.

Establishing whether Drupal is rightly called a CMS or CMF is beyond our purpose here, but it is certain that Drupal’s most tremendous asset is its extensibility. Want to use a directory server for authentication? There’s a Drupal module for that. Want to...