[lazyweb] Drupal Configurator
Hi, Just wanted to float this idea to the devel group. The Drupal Configurator will be an OFFLINE app (Java / .NET|Mono?) that allows you to perform most admin functions in an offline mode. Even with a decently fast connection, it is quite frustrating if you have to set up * flexinode * taxonomy * profiles via the browser... so many page views / iterations!. So, why not have a small forms driven app that allows us to do all of this in one shot, and then upload the combined preferences to the website? This can be done by setting up a special module for the configurator, which uses XML-RPC to read in and configure Drupal using this tool. I'm never going to have the time to do this, but it would be awesome if someone actually writes this. Let's see if the Drupal Lazyweb works! -Arnab -- http://www.arnab.org
On 1/15/06, Arnab Nandi <arnabdotorg@gmail.com> wrote:
Just wanted to float this idea to the devel group. Seems better suited to a feature request in http://drupal.org/node/add/project_issue/drupal
via the browser... so many page views / iterations!. So, why not have a small forms driven app that allows us to do all of this in one shot, and then upload the combined preferences to the website?
Why not just improve the UI to reduce page views/iterations and/or use AJAX techniques to reduce the amount sent back/forth to do this work? Greg
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 20:55 -0700, Greg Knaddison wrote:
On 1/15/06, Arnab Nandi <arnabdotorg@gmail.com> wrote:
Just wanted to float this idea to the devel group. Seems better suited to a feature request in http://drupal.org/node/add/project_issue/drupal
via the browser... so many page views / iterations!. So, why not have a small forms driven app that allows us to do all of this in one shot, and then upload the combined preferences to the website?
Why not just improve the UI to reduce page views/iterations and/or use AJAX techniques to reduce the amount sent back/forth to do this work?
Greg
a real collapsible menu :)
Hello, Op maandag 16 januari 2006 04:03, schreef Arnab Nandi:
* flexinode * taxonomy * profiles via the browser... so many page views / iterations!. So, why not have a small forms driven app that allows us to do all of this in one shot, and then upload the combined preferences to the website?
Peronally I am moer and more moving away from this and moving back to the good old PHP. Mostly for development reasons, since configuration is quit hard to port over between test-staging-live sites, especailly of you are delaing with version upgrades. Hence I prefer to store this configuration as normal PHP modules or theme fucntions in my SVN. I concluded that mixing logic (configuration) and content, is about as bad as mixing logic and style in a web application. I therefore, am focussing on getting more APIs ready for things. Starting off with views (which already has all this!) and next CCK, once that is ready for use. Just my $0.02 -- PGP ber@webschuur.com http://www.webschuur.com/sites/webschuur.com/files/ber_webschuur.asc PGP berkessels@gmx.net http://www.webschuur.com/sites/webschuur.com/files/ber_gmx.asc
On 16 Jan 2006, at 1:25 PM, Bèr Kessels wrote:
I therefore, am focussing on getting more APIs ready for things. Starting off with views (which already has all this!) and next CCK, once that is ready for use.
And i'm working on allowing more of the API's to be opened up with xmlrpc, so you can build whatever interface you want to drive the functionality (shell script, flash, xul , jabber .. whatever) -- Adrian Rossouw Drupal developer and Bryght Guy http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com
On Jan 15, 2006, at 7:03 PM, Arnab Nandi wrote:
but it would be awesome if someone actually writes this.
http://svn.civicspacelabs.org/trunk/install.php http://svn.civicspacelabs.org/trunk/modules/configure/ Done! Kieran
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