Crucial Drupal Modules for Dynamic Site Development

I have spent the last few days playing around with Drupal for the first time, and I really like it. Especially after building dynamic sites from scratch.

Being that there are thousands of modules, I would like to know what modules SO users cant live (or develop) without.

What modules do you a开发者_如何学运维lways (or always with specific requirements) use?

There are some great posts out there with lists of can't-live-without modules: http://delicious.com/search?p=top+drupal+modules&chk=&fr=del_icio_us&lc=1&sd=6M&ed=&atags=drupal&context=all||

Personally though:

• Admin Menu
• Views
• CCK
• Pathauto (and Token)
• Adminrole
• Redirect 403 to User Login
• Global Redirect

Other modules I use a lot but not necessarily every single site, depending on the needs:

• Imagefield
• Imagecache
• Quicktabs
• Print
• Flag
• Webform

I install these regardless of the site, regardless of the requirements, and before I do anything else:

• Admin Menu
• CCK
• Views

What Dave DeLong said.

Also, some helpful mods:

• Contemplate (Content Templates)
• Devel (if you're going to develop your own Drupal theme)

http://drupalmodules.com/ is the best site for finding Drupal modules.

As an extension to what Dave DeLong has suggested, I also highly recommend the following:

• Advanced Forum - for decent looking forums, in case you want them
• Wikitools + Freelinking - for wiki-like link behaviour
• Google Analytics - for using this great Google service
• Wysiwyg - easy post editing using a graphical WYSIWYG interface

Other tools are mostly specific to the functions you want to have on your site.

I know that a million people are going to jump on this thread, but anyhoo...

Your best bet is to take a look at the usage statistics for each module. You talk with ten different people and you'll get ten different lists of "must have" modules, but these statistics demonstrate what people actually use. I would just start at the top and work your way down the list - even if you hit something that you don't need, it will be worth the time you take to understand what it does.

Oh, and Sam is very right: the best place to SEARCH for modules is drupalmodules.com.

• SEO Checklist
• Scheduler
• XML sitemap

Some I love but haven't seen mentioned yet:

• FCKEditor: http://drupal.org/project/fckeditor
• Taxonomy Menu (on some sites): http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_menu

I use also ThemeKey for change theme using taxonomy or regex.