Drupal is an open-sourced Content Management System (CMS) that can be used to host a web-site with pluggable components like blogs, forums, posts, feeds, editorials, triggers, etc. NetBeans is an open-sourced IDE for primarily developing Java based desktop/mobile/web applications. Apart from these, it also provides support for a variety of other programming languages like C, C++, Ruby, etc.

In an effort to combine both and extract the richness, we are providing support for Drupal 6.0 in NetBeans 6.1 IDE. As a part of this, for the first phase, we have documented the steps to be followed to host a Drupal based website through NetBeans. This would include downloading the Drupal CVS (PHP files) through NetBeans CVS plugin, creating a new PHP project, configuring the project with Apache WebServer and uploading and running the website through the IDE. The documentation is uploaded over here.

In the second phase of the project, we have developed a Wizard plugin for assisting the development of a Drupal Module. The plugin provides a wizard to create a 'New Drupal Module' and on entering the details in the form, the necessary files with the template code would get generated automatically. The source code is available in the CVS and the binary distros along with instructions to download and install the plugin and contribute to the code are availabe over here.

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