Reinier, Thanks a lot for the useful insight. About the book, it receives excellent points in the reviews but with no access to Rapidshare and Megaupload, I have simply failed to find another place I can download it. Could you kindly point me to a place I can download it? Mountbatten? :-)
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Reinier Battenberg < [email protected]> wrote: > > see below > > and read this: > http://www.chris-parsons.com/articles/five-things-i-wish-i-knew-when-i- > started-using-drupal > > -- > rgds, > > Reinier Battenberg > Director > Mountbatten Ltd. > +256 782 801 749 > www.mountbatten.net > > > > > On Friday 05 February 2010 12:20:59 Douglas Onyango wrote: > > 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, > > if you just need a form, you can also use the webform module, which does > just > that, creating forms. > > CCK is more if you want to create complex content types on your website. > > > 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. > > NEVER EVER do this. Drupal is very powerful and can do almost anything you > want, provided you find the right module. It can not just do that, but even > do > it secure, cached and themed. > > Inserting your custom php this way is first of all a maintenance nightmare, > secondly due to be insecure, thirdly it is far much more work than using > CCK & > views. > > And no, your own code is not more powerful than CCK + all the CCK > extentions > outthere. You can just not code as fast as the Drupal Community combined. > > If you want to code in drupal, create a custom module for your project and > take it from there. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS use the API, NEVER write to the > database yourself. You will fail at some point, you will fail horribly! > > > > > >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. > > You might have referred to contemplate > > > 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. > > That is not dirty, that is how Drupal Themeing works. > > A good idea is to take a base-theme like Zen or Blueprint and create a sub- > theme based on them. > > More about Drupal Theming here http://drupal.org/theme-guide > > Drupal Themeing is extremely powerful, but has a rather steep learning > curve. > (you will have to love it once you are more familiar with it) > > If you just need a theme, try http://themegarden.org/drupal6/ > > > > 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 - > > Nope, Drupal themes should not contain php. (at least no application > logic). > If you want to mess with code, use template functions. > > Just use PHP to print the Array elements that Drupal provides in your .tpl > file. > > > > 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. > > Yes yes! Firebug Horaay! > > > > > Happy Hacking! > > if you want to really learn Drupal 6, I can recommend getting a copy of > http://www.drupalbook.com/ It's our bible @ mountbatten. > > > > > > > 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). 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