[drupal-devel] Remove admin.module

Adrian Rossouw adrian at daemon.co.za
Wed Jan 26 15:47:38 UTC 2005


On 25 Jan 2005, at 11:49 PM, Todd Grimason wrote:

> * B?r Kessels <berdrupal at tiscali.be> [2005-01-25 13:02]:
>> Op dinsdag 25 januari 2005 18:50, schreef Carl McDade:
>>> ote no on this being removed. Drupal desperately needs a control
>>> panel page rather than a block adminstration list. This module suits
>>> that purpose. It just needs to be developed.
>>
>> Its very much debateable if we actually really want an admin-panel. I 
>> for one
>> do not want this at all. There are much cleaner *and modular*  methods
>> available.
>
> I personally find having to squeeze/use all the admin forms and
> layouts within the public site layout troublesome, but maybe this
> would be a solution to allow both usages? I imagine the difficulty
> occurs in deciding which actions are "admin" actions or just user or
> contributor actions. Probably somewhat ambiguous. Thoughts?

You could just have a seperate theme / template for the admin site and 
switch based on
if (arg(0) == 'admin') {
  $custom_theme = 'admin';
}

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