* 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