Top Ten Drupal Modules

Hi friends this post was taken in Drupal workshop for third year.I like to share this with you.
Before getting into this I like to say that all the information I took here are from various sites.The Description of all the modules are liable but not sure whether the no. of downloads of each module are correct,it may differ.

*****MOST IMPORTANT INFORMATION THESE DESCRIPTION ON MODULES ARE VERY BRIEF THEY DOES MORE JOB IN LIVE WEB ENVIRONMENT BUT IT GIVES US SOME KNOWLEDGE.

BEFORE LEARNING THIS YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT IS MODULE? TO KNOW THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE DOWNLOADED DRUPAL IN YOUR SYSTEM,THEN THIS POST WILL HELP YOU.IF YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT MODULE DON'T WORRY JUST LEARN IT IN WIKIPEDIA OR DRUPAL.ORG.THIS GIVES BASIC KNOWLEDGE ON MODULES.*****

OK LETS GO,

1.Administration menu—22910 downloads

Administration menu module it is useful for the beginners in Drupal.It provides a CSS-based menu at the top of your website.It contains not only regular menu items - local tasks are also included, giving you extremely fast access to any administrative resource and function your Drupal installation provides.



2.Content Construction Kit—19795 downloads

CCK is used for handling the contents of the Drupal site.For example there may be many admins and user for every site with different mode of access.This module helps in handling the content posted by different users at different point of time.
It shows:
1)The time of post.
2)The date last updated
3)The user who modified data.
etc..



3.FCKeditor—18576 downloads

This module allows Drupal to replace textarea fields with the FCKeditor - a visual HTML editor, sometimes called WYSIWYG editor. This HTML text editor brings many of the powerful WYSIWYG editing functions of known desktop editors like Word to the web. It's relatively lightweight and doesn't require any kind of installation on the client computer.



There is a demo for this editor you can go to this site for playing with this editor.

http://ckeditor.com/demo

4.Views module—17747 downloads

The Views module provides a flexible method for Drupal site designers to control how lists and tables of content are presented.
This tool is essentially a smart query builder that, given enough information, can build the proper query, execute it, and display the results. It has four modes, plus a special mode, and provides an impressive amount of functionality from these modes.

5.PATHAUTO –11994 downloads

The Pathauto module automatically generates path aliases for various kinds of content (nodes, categories, users) without requiring the user to manually specify the path alias. This allows you to get aliases like /category/my-node-title.html instead of /node/123. The aliases are based upon a "pattern" system which the administrator can control




6.BACKUP AND MIGRATE--10671 downloads

Backup and Migrate simplifies the task of backing up and restoring your Drupal database or copying your database from one Drupal site to another. It supports gzip, bzip and zip compression as well as automatic scheduled backups.

7.TOKEN—10515 downloads

Tokens are small bits of text that can be placed into larger documents via simple placeholders, like %site-name or [user]. The Token module provides a central API for modules to use these tokens, and expose their own token values.

8.Lightbox2 –9928 downloads

The Lightbox2 module is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on most modern browsers.The module places images above your current page, not within. This frees you from the constraints of the layout, particularly column widths. It keeps users on the same page. Clicking to view an image and then having to click the back button to return to your site is bad for continuity



9.WEBFORM—9684 downloads

This module adds a webform nodetype to your Drupal site. Typical uses for Webform are questionnaires, contact or request/register forms, surveys, polls or a front end to issues tracking systems.
Submissions from a webform are saved in a database table and can optionally be mailed to a nominated e-mail address upon submission. Past submissions are viewable for users with the correct permissions.
Webform includes some simple statistical tools to help in form design and evaluation and also allows the whole table to be downloaded as a csv file for detailed statistical analysis.

10.CAPTCHA—9183 downloads

A CAPTCHA is a challenge-response test most often placed within web forms to determine whether the user is human. The purpose of CAPTCHA is to block form submissions by spambots, which are automated scripts that post spam content everywhere they can. The CAPTCHA module provides this feature to virtually any user facing web form on a Drupal site.



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Ok these are the top ten modules of drupal.Thank you.