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Drupal crash course
I’ve embarked on a self-led crash course in Drupal the last few days. I’ve looked at it before over the years, but never seriously and never behind-the-scenes.
My neighborhood HOA is in need of a new community website in a bit of rush, as the current one is dying a painful death due to neglect. And as I played with Drupal as an option for that, I started to quite like it. Enough that, in a day and a half I’ve pretty much converted work’s existing Plone Intranet to it. Plone has it’s virtues, but I’ve never been able to get people using it because it’s a bit intimidating to the novice user. I think Drupal will fit the bill better — and it also has quite decent Event calendars and an add-on ticket tracker that should be functional for their needs.
I even wrote a Drupal module, which mainly extends the XML-RPC interface to support remote updating of some of our content from our ERP system. Though I’ve played with it as a user for a couple of years now, I never felt comfortable extending Plone. Just too much weird CMF/Zope voodoo going on to figure out.
Between this and my little Wordpress extension, I’ve written more PHP code in the last couple of days that in the rest of my life combined! But don’t worry, I’m not becoming a PHP convert. That part of it still hurts by head.
September 7th, 2006 at 11:01 am
Good to see you trying out Drupal.