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On which framework Drupal 8 is based?
Answering the headline question: Drupal 8 is a CMF (Content Management Framework) which means a combination of CMS and AWF. As a result, Drupal has the functionalities of both solutions.
Is Drupal 8 supported?
Drupal 8 Long-Term Support Consequently, Drupal 8 support will end in November 2, 2021. A long-term-support (LTS) Drupal 8.9 minor release was released alongside Drupal 9 and will be supported until November 2021. No new features will be added to Drupal 8, nor will minor releases be made available.
Which is the best version of Drupal to run?
In brief, you should always run one of the recommended official releases. These can be found at the Drupal Project page. At any given time, there are two major release series of Drupal which are supported. Currently, these are Drupal 7 and Drupal 8.
Do you need PHP curl for Drupal 8?
The PHP cURL extension is required for the SimpleTest module in Drupal 8, as well as Aggregator and some contributed modules. Many Linux distributions and development stacks will have it enabled by default, but if your system doesn’t either enable it in php.ini (typically on Windows) or install it using your package manager (typically on Linux).
What are the requirements for PHP in Drupal 8?
DOM is now a systems requirement. An image library for PHP such as the GD library is a required extension in Drupal 8, and is needed for image manipulation (resizing user pictures, image and image cache modules). ImageMagick is also supported for basic image manipulations in Drupal core but there is much less support from contributed modules.
Why are module checkboxes disabled in Drupal 8?
If you use the Drupal 8 ‘Extend’ page to manage modules, and enable anything, or even just allow the default profile to turn things on for you (the usual case) the module checkboxes are disabled. You cannot turn ‘optional’ things off.