[support] Drupal as a PHP development framework?

[Emmanuel Seyman]

* Daniel Carrera [19/12/2008 16:04] :
>
> Can you use Drupal core as a PHP development framework? Suppose you want 
> to create a custom in-house web application which is not necessarily 
> going to be a Drupal module. What would you use?

As an example :

I was looking at GCStar and Tellico (Gnome and KDE applications for
managing collections, respectively) when I realized that Drupal can
do everything that I'm looking for in these apps :

a) Ability to define the properties of an item in the collection
b) Being able to tag these items in any way I want
c) Displaying the items in any number of different ways

a and c require cck and views, b just requires activating taxonomy.

The only thing I'm missing is the ability to script adding a node
(so that I can scrape a web page and use its data to create an item).
I'm sure this can be done but I need to find out how.

Emmanuel