Drupal is a free and open-source web content management system written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. Drupal provides a back-end framework for at least 13% of the top 10,000 websites worldwide – ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites.

What language does Drupal use?

1. PHP language. Every Drupal developer needs to know PHP language for a simple reason: Drupal software is written in it. The reason for that is, PHP is a programming language that is flexible and easy to learn, even if you come from a different knowledge background.

Do you need to know coding for Drupal?

Conceptualizing Drupal as a framework does not require years of programming experience; rather, it simply requires understanding what a "hook" is and finding out whether the one you need exists and already is able to do the thing you want done.