[drupal-docs] New member intro and question

[Larry Garfield]

On Saturday 01 October 2005 07:03 am, Anggie Bratadinata wrote:
> Hi all,
> My name is Anggie Bratadinata. I'm an Indonesian. I work as independent
> web designer / developer and Compiere ERP implementor. I just joined
> this group last week and truly amazed by the high activities in this
> group and the other Drupal's groups too.
>
> I've been doing PHP for 2 years but only ocassionaly so I'm nothing
> compared to you, the PHP masters. I've done a lot of Flash and CSS/XHTML
> projects. Currently I'm trying to master several programming langs e.g.
> PHP, C++.NET, and Java, and also Python and the oldschool C++ (I truly
> love this one but I don't know why). I spent this whole week studying
> OOP through C++ and Java (what a journey!).

And you've not gone insane yet?  Impressive. :-)

> Next year, hopefully, if everything goes as planned, I'll have to
> implement a campus management system for a local college here, migrating
> their current system from Clipper/Foxbase to PHP/MySQL. Seeing how
> Drupal have been developed actively and relatively easier than Smarty, I
> quickly recon that this is the right tool to be used as the base
> framework for that project.

Well, Drupal and Smarty are not directly comparable.  You can even use Smarty 
within Drupal for the template engine if you want.  Smarty's a template 
engine while Drupal is a CMS/development framework.  It would be more 
comparable to PEAR::FormBuilder, but even that's not really a fair comparison 
either way.

> One thing that I think is missing from Drupal that is printable PDF
> documentations. Has anyone started this particular project? Or should I
> start it myself?

I'm not aware of such a module.  Do you mean printable versions of an 
arbitrary page?  There is a print module that gives printer-friendly CSS.  A 
module that gives PDF output using PHP's PDF functions would probably be 
modeled on it.  Take a look, or ask lots of questions, or preferably do 
both. :-)

Welcome aboard!

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