[support] Do you *really* have to be a programmer - was Re:Newbie question on concept

[Jean Gazis]

On 4/25/07, Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 25 April 2007 10:53 am, Bèr Kessels wrote:
>
> > This is merely a warning, not a kick at Drupal or at the Drupal way. Its
> > just that I have been there, done that many times. And more and more
> often
> > find myself ignoring flexinode, cck and views alltogether, simplly
> because
> > of the fact that in order to get that last 10%, I kill the only pro of
> > these modules: online configuration.
> >
> > Bèr
>
> Again, I disagree.  Yes, once you start manually placing individual fields
> in
> a template file, you have to update it every time you add a new field.
>
> 1) That's why you do your node setup and configuration first, then your
> theming.
>
> 2) Even with that requirement, CCK/Views saves you all the database coding
> time.  I'd rather spend 10 minutes setting up a node in CCK and have 50
> minutes left over for theming it than spend 50 minutes setting up a node
> in a
> custom module and have 10 minutes left over to theme it.  I trust CCK's
> code
> to not suck a lot more than my quick'n'sloppy hands. :-)
>
> It also means that when you do add a field later, you still have no
> database
> or validation stuff to deal with.  All you have to do is add a new field
> through the UI and add another print statement to the template.  You never
> even see SQL or a validation routine.
>
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