This is a bit complicated and confusing as I read about it. The CCK module seems to have many functions and applications in addition to what I want. The description in the Install that came with the module mentions wrappers, taxonomy, categories and etc. I thought I was further along in learing Drupal again, but I'm lost reading this.
What I want is a unique content type that I will call Poems. I want to control the workflow for that content type and maybe customize the fields that a visitor/user sees. Is that going to be easy enough?
The CCK added a number of items to the Module list, some of which are not even selectable (why that is I don't know). I added Category Module also and that seems to add a number of items under Category. I thought I needed that module or should I say those Modules.
Can a module be removed? I mean the tables that were created will still be there. If I just remove the module from the site directory, is that going to be ok to do? There's no uninstall module is there? I guess I could just uncheck the enable tabs for the Category module and try to learn one thing at a time.
Thanks in advance all for feedback on this, Bruce
Larry Garfield larry@garfieldtech.com wrote:
Yes, CCK has the same "place in the ecosystem" as flexinode, but is a much more robust and extensible architecture. At this point it seems a foregone conclusion that CCK is/will be Drupal's node management system. Unfortunately, there is no good migration from flexinode to CCK that I'm aware of. There's a module that does a conversion in 4.7, but I have not used it and the description, when last I looked, described it as somewhat shaky.
In Drupal 5, on Content > Content types you can configure any node type in the system. Simply edit your poem node type and set its default publishing settings to not published. You can then create a View using the Views module to list all poem nodes that have their published flag set to false, and only let admin users see it.
Cheers.
--Larry Garfield
On Mon, 28 May 2007 20:55:21 -0700 (PDT), Bruce Whealton wrote:
Hello all, I had previously used Flexinode content on a Poetry Magazine website using Drupal 4.7.x Now, in Drupal 5.x it appears that Content Creation Kit replaces flexinode from previous versions, correct? Is the idea the same? I had a menu link to Create Content >> Poems. I also had it setup so that what is submitted appears in the queue, whether it comes from a user role of Contributor, authenticated user, or anonymous. If I give access for all these roles to Create Content, how can I be sure that it goes into the queue for approval first, instead of any user being able to publish directly? Thanks, Bruce