Glad my pain wasn't all in vain, Bert! :) I was thinking of something more on this subject, though, while I was making pee pee: I never realized there was a polar opposite of genius, where the mind is still fully capable of engineering something that actually produces the desired result, but in such an ass backwards, convoluted, "mousetrap", anally overcomplicated way. I mean, I knew that there probably existed such anti-geniuses engineering the motor compartments of foreign cars...but they exist in software architecture, too! Thanks Drupal! :)
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Bert Grantges <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry I can't help - but wanted to thank you for that email in my inbox - > I've been there with Drupal an that ha me laughing out loud! > > Good luck! > > ---------------------- > Bert Grantges > > > Coming to you from my iPhone. Strange words to be expected. > > On Apr 10, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Doug Boude <[email protected]> wrote: > > Having managed to avoid dealing with any PHP-based CMS products up until > now, and after having spent 4 hours last night attempting to extract > meaningful data from a Drupal database, I am now convinced that it was > designed by an alien race whose idea of data normalization is exponentially > beyond the extreme. I'm attempting to "beam" a client's data out of Drupal > and into a database schema that's more human. Being no whimp when it comes > to SQL, I figured I'd just go in the back door, figure out how the tables > relate real quick, and write some extraction queries. I ended up being bent > over a log by Drupal and squeeling like a pig for quite a while instead. So > I decided I'd go through the front door and see what options existed. Such > a strange animal...allowing me to export views, and create multiple types > of views for a given page (as I understood it), but I was never able, > again, to extract anything meaningful. What I finally discovered though was > that I could create an XML view, complete with filters and relationships > defined between the data! "Ah, sweet jeebus!" I said to myself, "I'm almost > there!". But alas, I could not manage to get an XML view set up that > provided me the kind of hierarchical output that I envisioned and needed. > > SO...is there anybody out there who knows exactly what I'm talking about > who is willing to spend an hour or two helping me create the XML view(s) > needed for me to extract my data from this dreaded Drupal??? I'll pay. > > Please respond to me off-group if you're interested or just want to make > fun of me or want to weep openly with me because you've endured the same > demeaning experience before. > > I need to go take a long shower now. > > Doug > > -- > Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Refresh Austin" group. > > [ Posting ] > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy > We do not accept job posts from recruiters. > > [ Unsubscribe ] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > [ More Info ] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin > > -- > Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Refresh Austin" group. > > [ Posting ] > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy > We do not accept job posts from recruiters. > > [ Unsubscribe ] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > [ More Info ] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin > -- Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin
