Drupal 4.7 is out
Ivan | Mon, 2006-05-01 12:22After more than a year of development we are ready to release Drupal 4.7.0 to the world. More than five years, 13 major releases, 30+ servicing firms employing 100+ Drupal professionals, 300+ third party modules, and over 55,000+ Drupal powered sites later, Drupal 4.7.0 is finally here and it rocks!
As you probably know creativebits.org is running on Drupal too. It's version 4.6 and we are planning to upgrade as soon as the image.module has a 4.7 version as it is essential for the critique section.
The new Drupal CMS features many great new features including:
- Easier installation
- AJAX goodness
- Easier module installation
- Multiple block regions
- Free tagging- this is huge!!!
...and much much more!
You can digg Drupal 4.7.
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The CVS version of the image module works with 4.7. It's running on my site now actually (see link below)...note the gallery page. The uploading is in AJAX now.
Thank you! I'll wait a bit more for a more stable version.
Your site looks different every time I visit. You must have at least 10 Drupal themes for it by now.
That's the module I am waiting for. The location_module is a big one for me.
I am excited about 4.7 the menu system seems really easy to work with.
I've got 4.7 running on a site already, and although it isn't hugely different from an administrator's point of view, it does have some really nice new features built in.
What continually impresses me about Drupal is the quality of the coding. It's still amazingly compact for all of it's functionality, and the code is exceptionally well laid out. Kudos to all of its contributors!
Arvana
arvanadesign.com
Quick question: how does Drupal compare to other CMS's? I've used Xoops and Mambo/Joomla, and (a while back) Postnuke. I'm currently thinking of converting my personal site over to a CMS, but haven't decided which. I was originally leaning towards Xoops, then Joomla, but I'm not sure yet. How does Drupal differ from the others?
One of my pet peeves with the web sites of most CMS's is that if they have a "Is _____ right for me?" page or something similar, it's nearly always focussed on "Is using a CMS right for me?" and never on whether that particular CMS would be better than others for you...
Soider Silk Design
http://www.spidersilk.net
Spidersilk, here are a couple of sites that you might want to check out:
http://www.opensourcecms.com
http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix
In my opinion, Drupal is one of the best-coded cms's. If you're setting up a site for a non-technical person, Joomla may be easier to admin, but if it's for your own use then you could be very happy with Drupal.
The only thing that bothers me a little about Drupal is its inherent blog/forum type structure -- you can make a site look however you want, with more flexibility than many other cms's, but if it isn't a blog or forum based site then you're going against the grain a little.
Hope that helps!
Arvana
arvanadesign.com
Thanks for the links!
Two of the features of said site are a blog and a forum, but it's also got a fairly large library of articles that are not "newsy" or otherwise time-based, and would need to be indexed by subject, not date.
One of the things that appeals to me about Drupal thus far is that it seems to offer more flexibility in categorizing content than other CMS's. The way I set the site up originally (when it was just straight HTML with little to no dynamic content) was based around six main topic areas, and within each one there are certain features like articles, book reviews, web site reviews, etc.
As I started moving into using more PHP &/or CGI scripts, it became harder to maintain the category structure, because most of the scripts -- including the components/modules of most CMS's -- tend to sort content functionally rather than thematically, so that the top categories would have to be articles, web links, etc. with the subject areas below that, not vice-versa. Drupal seems like it might have a little more flexibility than that...?
Soider Silk Design
http://www.spidersilk.net
Yup, actually Drupal has a great categorization system they call taxonomy -- you can create whole vocabularies of topics in a tree structure, have them cross-referenced, assign content to multiple topics, and create dynamic views by subject. There are also quite a lot of modules that extend this functionality even farther. The main challenge is figuring out how to use all of the available features as they aren't that well documented (as far as I've been able to find at least!).
The built-in forum in Drupal isn't nearly as powerful as something like phpBB, so if you're used to that you might be a little disappointed. CreativeBits does a great job of maximizing Drupal's forum capabilities (thanks guys!) so this site should give you a good idea of what's possible in that area.
Arvana
arvanadesign.com
Drupal has one of the best and most flexible categorization systems I've seen. This is why I used it to re-launch my personal site (if you follow the link, it's still VERY early in setup -- I've still got to build a theme and such). I can combine different kinds of content (blog entries, "stories", static pages, download pages, etc...) in a single organization hierarchy. Alternately, I can apply multiple hierarchies, functional hierarchies (i.e. by content type), etc...
Compared to other CMSes (I've messed with Wordpress, Nuke, and Joomla), it's a bit geekier than, say, Wordpress, and a bit friendlier (albeit geekier) than Joomla. If a blog, forum, or other sort of regularly updated content is a key feature of your site, it handles that quite well. If not, well, it seems to handle that well, too, provided that you're okay with "content goes on the front page" or some way to code around it.
The built-in modules and configuration of Drupal is incredibly powerful. I've been quite impressed. With some very modest PHP hacking you can get some amazing customization.
OK, I'm sold. :-)
I've just installed drupal on a subdomain and am testing it out. Lack of an install script was mildly annoying, but it didn't really take that much longer than it would have with one. And thus far seems pretty easy to configure. This just might be the solution I've been looking for!
Thanks!
Soider Silk Design
http://www.spidersilk.net