Hey Ben, which Pro Drupal Edition are you referring to? </ryan>
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Ben DJ <[email protected]>wrote: > Anth, > > > I feel your pain here. I just went through something similar to have a > > timesheet application up and going. One content type representing a > > timesheet but users with different roles accessing different > versions/parts > > of it at different stages of a workflow. > > > > What I found a reasonably elegant solution and gave me a bit of re-use > was > > to set up different templates in the preprocess function (using template > > suggestions) that will load the same content in a completely different > way. > > Using this with a multi form/step I got it all working without doing any > > theme work or worrying how it looked and then added all my theme stuff > > afterwards. > > That's certainly an approach I've considered -- for 'new' form content. > > My "hurdle", atm, is (re)using the existing forms & modules > (user_login, search, captcha, etc -- in my case) to the greatest > extent possible. > > normally, i'd talk to the module designers about extending their > modules -- but, so far, they're basically not interested. which is > fine. > > > I do totally agree that this can feel harder than just writing > > your own stuff from scratch sometimes though. > > Tbh, I can get all this 'back end' controller workflow and logic, as > well as site-wide theming, MUCH faster & easier using just about any > PHP framework (Zend, Cake, Symphony), or even some of the newer CMS > (apostrophe). A matter of days-to-weeks -- not this weeks to months > business. > > I keep telling myself that the *eventual* payoff -- huge community and > mgmt of the community/content -- will make itself known using Drupal. > > For quick up-n-running out-of-the-box stuff, Drupal really can't be > beat. But for non-standard extension, although the inner workings are > there, i'm finding it's not the 'friendliest' environments. Like I > said earlier -- *maybe* a lighting bolt will hit. But, atm, I'm > having a Margarita and re-considering the wisdom of my choice -- or > lack thereof. > > Ben >
