Drupal Interview Questions - 1. Why do you think Drupal is powerful & popular CMS compare to others? Drupal Allows to create multiple content types using content construction kit (cck) without any programming skills. Also allows customize theme template for each content type. For example you can have page, article , story, slideshow content type. 2. What is a Module in drupal ? A module is software (code) that extends Drupal features and/or functionality. Drupal Supports – Core modules – included with the main download of Drupal, and you can turn on their functionality without installing additional software. Contributed modules are downloaded from the Modules download section of drupal.org, and installed within your Drupal installation. You can also create your own module – CustomModules” using PHP programming, and Drupal’s module API. 3. What are hooks in Drupal ? hooks are drupal api code which allows module to interact with the Drupal core. 4. How does caching work in Drupal? Drupal caching system allows customized settings to speed up website using different configuration with page caching, block caching and lifetime for cached pages. 5. Name few important modules - Views - Panels - Ctools - Token - Pathauto - Webform - Rules - Drupal rules will allow you to set up condition actions. Date - This is useful for allowing the easy selections of dates in content types (with a nice date popup). It also integrates nicely with the views module. Quicktabs - Libraries - Makes organizing your various libraries of functionality easy (see Jquery UI above for an example). Google Analytics. This module makes it very simple. What gets measured, gets improved after all. 6. Whether drupal is written in procedural-style or object oriented? (Procedural oriented) 7. why not object oriented? When drupal is in initial stage, PHP is not full integrated with OOPS. Also absence of class and constructors. 8. Why Drupal? Advanced URL Control,Custom Content Types and Views,Revision Control,Taxonomy,User Management,Page Titles and Meta Tags,Excellent Documentation,PHP Template, Drupal Cookbooks, Large and Friendly Community. 9. How does drupal know when to invoke a module to handle the particular request? This is done by hook mechanism. Drupal check currently enabled modules and find the call back functions and then execute it . 10. how can we prevent to load all the modules while the page is render? we can change the module_load_list function in module.inc. Here we can set the modules to load based on the page. # dglobaltech , drupaldummies
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