First, I think of this as a best practices experiment, where people
share how they would approach building a site. Not technically, but
more from an architectural point of view and/or re-use of existing
modules and theme decisions. Let me know if people believe this is
interesting/OT/not interesting.<br>
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We could respond here, or respond on the forum. I think I'll leave a note saying I've sent this to the consulting list.<br>
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<a href="http://drupal.org/node/41397">http://drupal.org/node/41397</a><br>
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<p>I'm a drupal newbie planning to convert an existing *very* simple database driven web site <a href="http://e3rg.pserc.cornell.edu/">http://e3rg.pserc.cornell.edu/</a>
to drupal. My goals are to (1) learn drupal and (2) make the content
management of the site accessible to a non-technical person.</p>
<p>I was wondering if someone with drupal experience could spare 5 or
10 minutes to have a look at the existing site and then give me some
pointers on mapping things to the appropriate drupal features.</p>
<h4>More details</h4>
<p>The site consists essentially of a list of publications and a list
of people, some of whom are authors of the publications. The
publications are classified under a few categories, which themselves
fall under a top level of categories. There is a static home page with
links to "People" and "Publications". People is just a list of the
people each with a link to a page with a possible blurb about the
person followed by a list of the publications they've authored.
Publications is a static page of the publication categories, each
linked to a list, sorted by publication date, of the publications under
that category. In the list, each publication has a link to a page with
the details of the publication and a download link for the PDF file.
There is also a static "Related Sites" page. That's it!</p>
<p>My thought is to create 2 custom node types, one for people and one
for publications. The publication categories could easily be
represented by a 2-level taxonomy. What I'm not sure about is how to
link the publications to their authors?</p>
<p>I'm also not sure how to customize the listing of a particular node
type. E.g. If I wanted the people page to list the people in separate
tables, one for each department.</p>
<p>Pointers on automating the process of getting the people and
publication data from the existing database tables into drupal nodes
would be appreciated. A little PHP snippet that inserts a node of a
particular type would probably be sufficient.</p>
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