Acquia White Paper Sample

The menu system is a tool that offers a great deal of control and opportunity. It is easy to grasp and developers with a wide range of skills and abilities are able to use it effectively. It isn't the only tool available for extending or altering Drupal, and it isn't the right tool for every situation. Better tools exist if your goal is to alter a form or extend the definition or behavior of nodes or content types. Together, though, these tools allow for the enhancement and alteration of Drupal's core functionality and behavior while avoiding the need to hack the core code. By embracing this need for an architecture that is open and accessible, Drupal supports a very significant amount of community participation, has become the choice of platforms for hundreds of thousands of people and organizations, and has enabled thousands of developers to become open source contributors.