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What is Drupal?

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What is Drupal?

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- In this video, I want to answer the question what is Drupal? Well, Drupal is a content management system with literally thousands and thousands of ad-ons enabling you to build pretty much any kind of website that you might ever want to use. So what is a content management system? Well, in Drupal that boils down to the code which is PHP, HTML, CSS, Twig, Yammel, JavaScript, Ajax all rolled into one, we call that core. And then contributed modules and themes made up of the same kind of code that help Drupal along. All of that interacts with a database. Your content and configuration are all stored in a large database that Drupal works with. And finally, when we think about the creative design, we think about the theme and all of the things that go into that. So when somebody lands on your Drupal website, Drupal says, Oh, they want the content out of the database that's related to this URL. Let me go spin Drupal up, let…

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