Drupal 7: A more powerful platform for building library applications

• Cary Gordon, The Cherry Hill Company, cgordon@chillco.com

Code4Lib 2010 - Wednesday, February 24 - 13:20-13:40

The release of Drupal 7 brings with it a big increase in utility for this already very useful and well-accepted content management framework. Specifically, the addition of fields in core, the inclusion of RDFa, the use of the PHP_db abstraction layer, and the promotion of files to first class objects facilitate the development of richer applications directly in Drupal without the need to integrate external products.

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