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Quite often we all find we need some way of creating a community or communicating with clients in a user friendly way. For this, some of us, will choose forum/bulletin board systems. In this article we will discuss some of the major forum content management systems alongside their pro’s and con’s.

Sometimes it's good to put things into perspective. The popularity of Drupal is a good example. Even though there are thousands of contributed modules and it's getting hard to keep track of the new modules being added, Drupal as a whole is not as popular as other content management systems such as Joomla and Wordpress:

There are several solutions available in Drupal 6 to upload, manipulate and manage images;

Any international programmer will one day be confronted with the problem of handling languages other than English. These contain many diacritics and other letters or symbols which do not exist in the English language. When it goes wrong, things can get very ugly, with strange characters (examples: ¶, é, â, ÃŒ, ü, �, ë, ®, â��, ï) appearing in your database. How do you avoid data corruption and other problems related to character encoding? We won't be explaining everything in-depth, but provide some quick and easy pointers which allow you to get started right away.