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Drupal Development

 

Drupal development is an open-source and free content management system that allows you to manage, organizing, and publishing your content. It carries under the general public license and it is been built on the PHP environment. The CMS is a platform to edit, modifying, storing, publishing all the data in your contents such as text, music, photos, documents, etc. And make it available on the website.

Drupal Development

Why Drupal?

It provides a flexible CMS environment comparing to any other web development CMS. It provides a powerful tool to develop a large and very complex site. It provides both technical and non-technical users to develop websites with PHP-based templates. As it can handle the more complex form and workflows.

Features of drupal development

  • It has a built-in user interface to translate anything into the system.
  • It has search engine connection capability which tends to connect your website to other sites.
  • It provides customized themes, and a template to designs your own themes for your website.
  • Its fully open source and there is no licensing and cost.
  • It provides easy maintenance and easy creation of websites.

Drupal development tools

There are a lot of tools uses to develop Drupal sites faster. Let us discuss some of the most important tools for their site development.

1. Total solutions

Acquia cloud– An Drupal hosting platform that provides faster and powerful development. It also provides multiple environment development and a desktop GUI client.

Aegir Hosting System

It’s free and allows us to create, deploy, and manage Drupal and WordPress websites.

Pantheon

It is an instant cloud development environment for drupal development. With free sign up you can develop, test, and make a live with Git version control.

OpenDevShop

It is a cloud hosting system. Which provides the front end for drupal by Devmaster and back end with drush by DevShop provision.

Drupal Development

2. Drupal development modules

Devel

It is a suite of modules that provides the functions, admin pages, and Drush commands to be used for development. It provides the examine service containers, routes, and events.

3. Command-line tools

Druch

It is one of the popular drupal command line and scripting interface, which is mainly used for speeding up the installation, developing, and maintaining of sites.

Drupal Console

It’s a tool to generate the boilerplate code, interact, and debug drupal.

There are some other important command-line tools such as DrumlDrupal Code generatorGitComposerand Dos2unix, etc.

4. Tools for the browser

Mozilla Firefox – an opens source browser with development tools, web development extension, YSlow, page speed, and fireFTP with a Drupal firebug module included in the Firebug extension.

Microsoft Internet Explorer – It is a windows only browser with development tools, multiple versions, IETester.

There are other important browsers such as OperaSafari, Google Chrome, and some cross-browser extensions such as Drediotor, Firebug lite, Drupal for Firebug.

Drupal Development

5. Tools for working with code & text

VIM

One of the advanced text editor, with high editing efficiency. it a free and open-source and it is fully based on vi.

There are other most important editors like EmacsGNU global, and some of the commonly used editors like AtomBBEditBluefish EditorBracketscodaDreamweavergPHPeditjEditNotepad++, Smultron, Sublime Text, TextMateand TextWrangler.

6. Integrated development environment (IDE)

Eclipse

It is a popular open-source IDE. With some plugins to develop PHP. With the Eclipse Che a cloud-based IDE which is an in-browser online IDE.

Some other platforms such as Aptana Studio3Netbeansbluefish EditorEmacsQuantaplusgeanyKomodo IDEPhpEDcodeLobsterXcodeand Zend Studio.

Drupal Development

7. SQL & Database tools

Ther are a lot of software to aid your SQL and database needs such as from small queries to administration. The most popular tools for drupal are MYSQL WorkbenchphpMYAdminDbVisualizerAdminerpgadmin3, and much more.

Conclusion

The development of Drupal mainly depends on the usage of the supportive tools as you can develop your website with Drupal in a cost-effective way with our services or if you wish to develop on your own and need some consultancy contact us.

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