[support] CCK versus older Flexinode modules

[Bruce Whealton]

This is a bit complicated and confusing as I read about it.  The CCK 
  module seems to have many functions and applications in addition to
  what I want.  The description in the Install that came with the module 
  mentions wrappers, taxonomy, categories and etc.  I thought I was further
  along in learing Drupal again, but I'm lost reading this.
   
  What I want is a unique content type that I will call Poems.  I want to
  control the workflow for that content type and maybe customize the fields
  that a visitor/user sees.  Is that going to be easy enough?
   
  The CCK added a number of items to the Module list, some of which are
  not even selectable (why that is I don't know).  I added Category Module also
  and that seems to add a number of items under Category.  I thought I needed
  that module or should I say those Modules.
   
  Can a module be removed?  I mean the tables that were created will
  still be there.  If I just remove the module from the site directory, is that 
  going to be ok to do?  There's no uninstall module is there?  I guess
  I could just uncheck the enable tabs for the Category module and try to learn one
  thing at a time.
   
  Thanks in advance all for feedback on this,
  Bruce

Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com> wrote:
  
Yes, CCK has the same "place in the ecosystem" as flexinode, but is a much more robust and extensible architecture. At this point it seems a foregone conclusion that CCK is/will be Drupal's node management system. Unfortunately, there is no good migration from flexinode to CCK that I'm aware of. There's a module that does a conversion in 4.7, but I have not used it and the description, when last I looked, described it as somewhat shaky.

In Drupal 5, on Content > Content types you can configure any node type in the system. Simply edit your poem node type and set its default publishing settings to not published. You can then create a View using the Views module to list all poem nodes that have their published flag set to false, and only let admin users see it.

Cheers.

--Larry Garfield

On Mon, 28 May 2007 20:55:21 -0700 (PDT), Bruce Whealton 
wrote:
> Hello all,
> I had previously used Flexinode content on a Poetry Magazine
> website using
> Drupal 4.7.x Now, in Drupal 5.x it appears that Content Creation Kit
> replaces
> flexinode from previous versions, correct? Is the idea the same?
> I had a menu link to Create Content >> Poems. I also had it setup
> so that
> what is submitted appears in the queue, whether it comes from a user
> role of
> Contributor, authenticated user, or anonymous. If I give access for all
> these roles
> to Create Content, how can I be sure that it goes into the queue for
> approval first,
> instead of any user being able to publish directly?
> Thanks,
> Bruce
> 
> 
> 
> 


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