[consulting] Sharpen your wits: Drupal conversion

[Boris Mann]

First, I think of this as a best practices experiment, where people share
how they would approach building a site. Not technically, but more from an
architectural point of view and/or re-use of existing modules and theme
decisions. Let me know if people believe this is interesting/OT/not
interesting.

We could respond here, or respond on the forum. I think I'll leave a note
saying I've sent this to the consulting list.

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http://drupal.org/node/41397

> I'm a drupal newbie planning to convert an existing *very* simple database
> driven web site http://e3rg.pserc.cornell.edu/ to drupal. My goals are to
> (1) learn drupal and (2) make the content management of the site accessible
> to a non-technical person.
>
> I was wondering if someone with drupal experience could spare 5 or 10
> minutes to have a look at the existing site and then give me some pointers
> on mapping things to the appropriate drupal features.
> More details
>
> The site consists essentially of a list of publications and a list of
> people, some of whom are authors of the publications. The publications are
> classified under a few categories, which themselves fall under a top level
> of categories. There is a static home page with links to "People" and
> "Publications". People is just a list of the people each with a link to a
> page with a possible blurb about the person followed by a list of the
> publications they've authored. Publications is a static page of the
> publication categories, each linked to a list, sorted by publication date,
> of the publications under that category. In the list, each publication has a
> link to a page with the details of the publication and a download link for
> the PDF file. There is also a static "Related Sites" page. That's it!
>
> My thought is to create 2 custom node types, one for people and one for
> publications. The publication categories could easily be represented by a
> 2-level taxonomy. What I'm not sure about is how to link the publications to
> their authors?
>
> I'm also not sure how to customize the listing of a particular node type.
> E.g. If I wanted the people page to list the people in separate tables,
> one for each department.
>
> Pointers on automating the process of getting the people and publication
> data from the existing database tables into drupal nodes would be
> appreciated. A little PHP snippet that inserts a node of a particular type
> would probably be sufficient.
>


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