[support] Drupal7 or CodeIgniter fro new website?

[Lynn Stott (Stott Design)]

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On Feb 24, 2012, at 4:10 PM, George Dawson <george.dawson at earthlink.net> wrote:

> It seems to me that using CodeIgnighter would be easer, much easier. But maybe that is just me. I have found beyond the basics Drupal to be harder to learn than a new programming language. 
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>> From: Afan Pasalic <afan at afan.net>
>> Sent: Feb 24, 2012 12:20 PM
>> To: support at drupal.org
>> Subject: [support] Drupal7 or CodeIgniter fro new website?
>> 
>> Hi,
>> I plan to build website about Rotue 66. And. according to my flow- 
>> chart, it will be a little bit more then basic site. Basic plot: on  
>> home page you will have an image (US map, or 8 Route 66 states map)  
>> with links to select a state.
>> Once you select a state you will have
>>    a) list of cities (places) within the state you selected in the order  
>> they appear on the Route 66 (E.g. Kansas: Galena, Riverton, Baxter  
>> Springs. The order is from Chicago, IL to Los Angeles, CA)
>>    b) Google map with needles pointed to the cities within the state
>> To see Places, you have to select a city from the list or the map.
>> Once a city is selected a page should show
>>    a) list of Places in the city in the order they appear on the R66  
>> (Cicero, IL: Cindy Lyn Motel, Henry;s Drive Inn, Robin Hood Muffler  
>> Shop, Bunyon's Hot Dogs)
>>    b) Google map with needles in Places.
>> Clicking on the Place link on the list or clicking on the needle on  
>> the map, you will get to the Place page with more info about the  
>> Place: Name (title), History (body), Thumbnail, Location (geo- 
>> coordinates), Link to Galery/Photo album, Address. City, State. Zip  
>> info, etc.
>> 
>> It would be great to have multi-level menu "Places" on Main Manu where  
>> first level are States, second level Cities within the State you  
>> rolled-over. And, of course, States (first level) is clickable too and  
>> will show you page with cities in selected State (List/Google map)
>> 
>> I have two options to do this:
>> a) using CodeIgniter and have mach more control over it (already know  
>> how to do that but it's a lot of coding involved)
>> b) using Drupal7. It's probably much faster and safer but how much  
>> time I need to build something like this as a newbie with limited  
>> experience building very simple websites with Drupal 6 and 7 (static  
>> pages, contact form, forum, blog, and some work using View to show  
>> News on front page, block and News page)
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
>> 
>> Thanks a lot for any help.
>> 
>> Afan
>> 
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