Drupal has a pretty solid authentication system in place, i am sure you can work with it for both your apps and Drupal will let you point and click to set permissions etc.
For your form fields cck will help, just install the module and you will be able to create fields with a click, although you have the more powerful dirtier option of creating a block, with contenttype=php and directly pasting your already coded php, which will pull up forms, write to db on "submit" and and send the emails for you. >Drupal seems pretty stuck in its preset/downloadble themes. I haven't yet found a clear way to override them so as to preserve my own look n feel. Do you know how I can achieve this? > There is a module for this.....name skips my head, but i guess you can find it. Alternatively the dirty thing which i probably going to yield more accurate results is go into your theme folder and mess with page.tpl.php. This is where the page structure is made so you can change it here like you can remove somethings like a slogan by commenting the whole ( print $site_slogan block) and instead insert your fresh php in the section - remember the feel works with a css so be sure to tweak that to your needs as well, this is where you will want to hug the guy who wrote firebug. Happy Hacking! Regards, Douglas Onyango +256(0712)981329 Life is the educators practical joke in which you spend the first half learning, and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first was wrong. --- On Fri, 2/5/10, Stephen S. Musoke <[email protected]> wrote: From: Stephen S. Musoke <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [LUG] Porting WAMP apps into Drupal To: "'Linux Users Group Uganda'" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, February 5, 2010, 11:52 AM George, Just a word of caution, I am not very familiar with Drupal, but I am familiar with XOOPs and Joomla, but I find their ability to handle the creation of forms very complicated, and not intuitive. Also remember that after completing the migration of the user login etc, then you have to move the forms into the Drupal way of doing things? Have you looked into other vanilla PHP frameworks like CakePHP/Code Igniter/Symphony? Stephen From: George Lule [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 11:09 AM To: Linux Users Group Uganda Subject: [LUG] Porting WAMP apps into Drupal Guys, I have 2 applications that were developed basing on WAMP. They do perform different jobs but they share the following functionality: - Allowing self registration of users. - Once a user is registered, can log into the system and do a number of things(....very boring details here...) but bottom line, they both verify data, authenticate data against present values, check if fields have been filled and others. - Most forms upon submitting data into the db, immediately send mails to a number of groups which the user selects himself and others that are hardcoded. I wish to port these 2 into Drupal, but 1. These applications have a particular look and feel which I don't want to change, yet Drupal seems pretty stuck in its preset/downloadble themes. I haven't yet found a clear way to override them so as to preserve my own look n feel. Do you know how I can achieve this? 2. I haven't got a proper guide that can help me port both entire applications as they are into Drupal. Could you kindly provide/point me to a guide that can assist in this regard? 3. Finally, I found this step by step introduction http://www.gouncleweb.com/typd_welcome_drupal_website but it was designed for 5.x and some of its steps require tweaking to fit into 6.15. Do you know of anyother equally good one but geared towards 6.15? Regards George -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
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