<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Larry Garfield</b> <<a href="mailto:larry@garfieldtech.com">larry@garfieldtech.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 10:53 am, Bčr Kessels wrote:<br><br>> This is merely a warning, not a kick at Drupal or at the Drupal way. Its<br>> just that I have been there, done that many times. And more and more often
<br>> find myself ignoring flexinode, cck and views alltogether, simplly because<br>> of the fact that in order to get that last 10%, I kill the only pro of<br>> these modules: online configuration.<br>><br>> Bčr
<br><br>Again, I disagree. Yes, once you start manually placing individual fields in<br>a template file, you have to update it every time you add a new field.<br><br>1) That's why you do your node setup and configuration first, then your
<br>theming.<br><br>2) Even with that requirement, CCK/Views saves you all the database coding<br>time. I'd rather spend 10 minutes setting up a node in CCK and have 50<br>minutes left over for theming it than spend 50 minutes setting up a node in a
<br>custom module and have 10 minutes left over to theme it. I trust CCK's code<br>to not suck a lot more than my quick'n'sloppy hands. :-)<br><br>It also means that when you do add a field later, you still have no database
<br>or validation stuff to deal with. All you have to do is add a new field<br>through the UI and add another print statement to the template. You never<br>even see SQL or a validation routine.<br><br>--<br>Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42
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