Odd Conclusion for Drupal 6 Article

Submitted by Bryan on March 20, 2008 - 8:27pm

Linux.com is featuring a story by Susan Linton titled "Drupal 6 keeps getting better". The author claims she has been using Drupal since version 3.1 and seems to know Drupal well enough to write a decent article. In short, she does a farily nice job of summarizing the features introduced in Drupal 6. However, she ends the article with a rather strange conclusion.

My primary complaint with Drupal is still not addressed in this release. I believe having advertising capabilities is almost a necessity in any content management solution. Instead, Drupal leaves users to their own skills or to use a contributed module. The lack of native advertising support remains a major drawback.

I rarely have seen such request for an "advertisement feature" in the core of any CMS I've reviewed. Yes, some CMS do have an advertisement feature but in most cases the capabilities of such built-in features are usually limited. Either way, I just can't imagine with the latest drive to strip the less needed modules in Drupal 7 and beyond, that the Drupal developers would go for an ad module in the core.

For those of you that are looking for advertisement options in their Drupal sites, don't distress! There are some well written contributed modules available at Drupal.org. Some of the ad modules I've used for my own sites and recommend include:

There are, of course, other contributed Drupal modules used for advertisement that I likely should recommended. However, since I have no experience with the other ad modules, I'll let others do the recommending for me.

 

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OpenAds

Submitted by Eric (not verified) on March 20, 2008 - 10:59pm.

I use OpenX (was OpenAds) to serve the ads on my site and the OpenAds Drupal module works pretty well.

It was a little non-intuitive to set up which might be more of my lack of understanding of OpenX more that the Drupal module.

The more difficult part is the theme - I have not had a chance to make a custom theme and the free ones I have found are not the most banner friendly.  The Denver theme works pretty well, but I may just go ahead and do a custom theme when I get time.

 

Eric 

Modules for v6

Submitted by Jamie (not verified) on March 21, 2008 - 2:03am.

For those of you that are looking for advertisement options in their Drupal sites, don't distress! There are some well written contributed modules available at Drupal.org. Some of the ad modules I've used for my own sites and recommend include:

None of which are available for Drupal v6 yet!

But in essence I agree with you :)

Jamie

making drupal mobile

Interesting

Submitted by chx (not verified) on March 21, 2008 - 3:28am.
There was no Drupal 3.1... and this version number is repeated in the article.

Thank you!

Submitted by Bryan on March 21, 2008 - 6:07am.

Thank you! I had some doubts that there was a Drupal 3.1, but my Drupal experience only goes back to Drupal 4.6.x. I'll give the author the benefit of the doubt that she is making an honest mistake.

There was a Drupal 3.0.1, but then that would mean the author has been using Drupal since 2001. If the author has truly been waiting for seven years to see advertisement in the Drupal core...she must be one very patient woman! Smile

Let us all be patient and

Submitted by Theme Artists (not verified) on March 23, 2008 - 5:49pm.
Let us all be patient and see her review on Drupal 13, :).

Hogwash

Submitted by Mikkel Høgh (not verified) on March 21, 2008 - 7:27am.
"Major drawback". Sigh. I, for one, have created dozens of Drupal-sites, and have not yet deployed any advertisement on any of them. That might be unusual, but given the fact that there are so many different advertisement systems out there, it would be neigh impossible to have them all in core. So, clueless reporters aside, I think we're good. It's not like there's very many sites out there that are built with Drupal core without any modules, so having to download one additional module for advertisement shouldn't tax your abilities.

I agree that an advertising

Submitted by yaph (not verified) on March 21, 2008 - 8:15am.

I agree that an advertising module should not be part of core and that modules such as poll and ping should be moved out of core in D7.

The core should include the basic functionality for managing content and users. With more of CCK and Views in core, Drupal 7 will be even more powerfull out of the box and let you include ads and other stuff you may need the way you want.