Core Modules (Don’t disable core modules)

1. Aggregator-

• A feed reader for example atom, RSS feeds, RDF
• When enabled; this module can fetch content from other websites

2. Block Module-

• Blocks are the boxes of content
• For example, blog websites will have post categories, those categories together are called as one block
• Can be displayed on selected pages and visibility can be controlled
• Can be displayed in sidebar, footer with relevant content

3. Blog Module-

• For blog entries
• removed from core modules n Drupal 8 but can be installed as a contributed module

4. Book Module-

• Not enabled by default
• Set of pages tied together in a hierarchical sequence
• Generally used for manuals, resource guides, FAQs etc

5. Color Module-

• Responsible to change color scheme of themes
• Not for custom themes, but can control or no need

6. Comment Module-

• Act as a normal comment template on posts
• Can integrate captcha with it to stop spams
• Mollom offers both text analysis and captcha

7. Contact Module-

• Allows site visitors to send emails to administrator or privileged users

8. Dashboard-

• No need to say what is does
• Collection of all elements
• Drag drop support
• Can be disabled

9. Dblog Module-

• Logs and records system events and activities to database
• Previously called watchdog
• Can view log messages when site is down
• Can be accessed through configuration menu of backend

10. Field SQL Storage-

• Provides data management for field module
• Uses field API to generate dynamic data tables

11. Field UI-

Working with content types and fields

• Content type base configuration-
  • Defines the default behaviour and properties of content type
  • Whether or not post has to be published, can be controlled
• Content type fields-
  • Can be understand as custom post type and archives
• Fields- category, title, tag, image, body, comment body
• Field type- text, integer, image; data type of a field
• Field instance- A field added to an element

• Used for attaching and managing fields
• Extra fields can be created as per the requirements

12. Field Module-
    • Allows custom data fields to be attached to Drupal entities
13. File module-
    • Allow users to upload and attach files to content and manage uploads
    • Gives placeholder to file paths
14. Filter Module-
    • Configure text formats for processing text inputs
    • Ships with two options, filtered and full HTML
15. Forum Module-
    • By using this module, we can create forum or discussion through our website
    • Discussions can be archived for future reference
16. Image module-
    • Allows to display and manipulate images on website
17. List Module-
    • For sorting a list of items
    • Usually these items are entered through a select list, checkboxes or radio buttons
18. Menus-
    • Used to navigate
    • Default links will be nodes with id’s
    • Id’s can be replaced by entering the desired name in URL alias
    • Weight decides the position of menu item, higher in weight: next in position
19. Nodes-
    • Most content on Drupal website stored and treated as nodes
    • Is any piece of individual content such as poll, page, article, forum or a blog entry, i.e. any kind of entry
20. Number Module-
    • Defines various numeric field types for the field module.
    • Can be integer, decimal or floating-point form

21. OpenID Module-
    • Adds a feature of ‘login’ in login block
    • Is a secure method of login into multiple websites through single/ same username and password
22. Overlay-
    • Displaying administrative pages as a layer over the current page rather than replacing page URL
    • For this it’s using JavaScript
    • Will have save, cancel and preview.
23. PHP Filter Module-
    • Adds an ability to include PHP code in posts
24. Path Module-
    • Let’s us optionally create URL aliases for Drupal pages
25. Poll Module-
    • Let’s us create polls
    • User’s vote
    • Questions/ answers
26. Profile-
    • Allows user to share information of themselves through specific forms
27. RDF Module-
    • Resource description framework
    • Enriches content with metadata to let’s other applications better understand its relationships and attributes
    • That content enrichment results in better SEO
    • Meta tags to content
28. Search Module-
    • Let’s user search for specific content on our website
29. Shortcut Module-
    • Provides a toolbar on the top of the page on which we can add links
30. Statistics Module-
    • Logs content statistics to website
31. Syslog Module-
    • Logs and records system events
32. System Module-
    • Provides system wide defaults for running cron jobs, caching and other essential tasks
33. Tracker Module-
    • Displays site’s most recently added or updated content
34. Trigger Module-
    • Provides the ability to take a particular action when a trigger occurs
35. Update Module-
    • Checks the newer version of your available CMS, that means if we are using Drupal 7, it will say 7.1 is available
36. User Module-
    • Allows user to register, login and logout
37. XML-RPC Module-
    • Gives external systems opportunity to communicate with the site through the XML-RPC protocol
38. Content Translation Module-
    • Can add more languages as per the regions
39. Taxonomy Module-
    • Categories, tags, metadata etc
    • Taxonomy is grouping of certain post types e.g. we have products as mobiles, so we will create a taxonomy called as mobiles and under that we will create products as iPhone.
40. Testing Module-
    • Provides a framework for running automated unit
    • Focuses on functional testing instead of unit testing