I can understand that. You instinctively want to go with what you know, It took a while before it started to click. Too easy to whip up some code. I think I can still do things quicker in code, but at least I understand there is a higher level of achievement to be had. I only hacked the core in 2 places though. Both were to get rid of annoying warnings. The theme is another story. Way beyond going back,
From: Roger arelem@bigpond.com To: themes@drupal.org, Date: 11/20/2013 06:23 PM Subject: Re: [themes] Minute to learn - lifetime to master.... Sent by: themes-bounces@drupal.org
Chris, With all due respect, I think how fast/easy you pick up Drupal depends on your prior experience. I have many years experience doing traditional programming (c, .net, etc). I was able to get rolling with Drupal fairly painlessly (set up the menu structure, start adding content). Granted, as I continue on there are some tough hurdles. Views, Content Types for instance. That was tough, but I'm getting
there.
I know there are a lot of hurdles yet to come. As a coder, I solved some problems with PHP code behind the scenes. But, as I got close to making it work, I started understanding how I could have done the same thing entirely within Drupal with no PHP outside. It's been a strange trip indeed. Phil
I had this experience lately from another angle. Was teaching a php programmer to develop a site in Drupal 7 but they didn't get it and kept reverting back to hacking the core, modules and themes instead of just doing the drupal thing and using the tools. Go figure! Roger
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