[development] Advice Needed

[Peter Wolanin]

This module I wrote can be a model for how to accomplish data
input/display in a Drupalesque way:

http://drupal.org/project/object_driver

Not 15 lines, but not complicated.   This also had lots of extra
goodness (such as hooks) that a dedicated module would not need.  Or
see (you have to get its code from CVS):

http://drupal.org/project/member

As before - these modules don't give you any of the power of the node
system, but sometimes that 's more than you need.  You could even
implement hook_search if you need a custom data type to be searchable
with Drupal's search module.

-Peter

On 8/28/07, Walt Daniels <wdlists at optonline.net> wrote:
> Ok, where is a sample of your fifteen-lines PHP function.
>
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> From: development-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces at drupal.org]
> On Behalf Of Bèr Kessels
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3:55 PM
> To: development at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [development] Advice Needed
>
> Op dinsdag 28 augustus 2007, schreef Farsheed:
> >  The advantage
> > being you get all the views query goodness and all you have to do is
> > make sure the data is output the way you want.
>
> The disavantage should also be mentioned here: Complexity.
>
> A views style plugin is actually (ahum) an abstraction layer, on an
> abstraction layer, on an abstraction layer and so forth, approximately six
> levels deep.
> Drupal, has a DBA to talk to SQL. Views lays on top of that as some kind of
> databasequery builder, adding complexity to an already complex thing. On top
> of that lies the Drupal theme layer. But, views style lies on top if /that/
> altering the theme. In fact, views has a theme abstraction in itself too.
> And on top of that, you get the theme layer again.
>
> Disclaimer: I am in favour of a simple fifteen-lines PHP function to
> aggregate data from the DB and present that in the table the way the client
> wants to see it, over views, cck, theme-over-theme-over-abstraction layers
> and all that. I just put this other side of the medallion here, so that
> readers are not blinded by all the CCK/views goodness, but can value a
> simple few lines of PHP where appropriate :)
>
> Bèr
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