A passion for PHP, as well as a strong developer community, has been vital to Drupal’s success, founder Dries Buytaert said.
Speaking to Computerworld Australia, Buytaert said Drupal’s growth can be partly attributed to the fact that the open source content management system (CMS) is written in PHP.
“I think one of the reasons Drupal grew and is one of the dominant systems on the Web is because it’s written in PHP,” he said. “The reason is that PHP is very accessible, it’s very easy for developers to open the code and make any changes.”
While Buytaert has no regrets writing Drupal in PHP, he said the company’s growth has resulted in an increased need for PHP developers.
“We need many more Drupal people because the growth is exploding,” he said. “We need to train really solid PHP developers and sometimes PHP is stigmatised for not being the cool tool, although I think a lot of people don’t realise that Drupal is another new layer on top of PHP.”
The popularity of Drupal has meant a large increase in public faces since its inception, with Buytaert saying that this number has increased from the original figure of 200,000 in 2007...
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