[kdewebdev-site] redesign of the quanta web site

[Andras Mantia]

On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Carlos Rincón wrote:
> El mar, 17-04-2007 a las 13:30 +0300, Andras Mantia escribió:
> > On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Philipp Wendisch wrote:
> > > yes it is, i work on debian, and it's quite simple. drupal comes
> > > with its own installer. but actually i rather use typo3 instead
> > > of having to deal with drupal, beside the fact that drupal is
> > > mysql- and postgresql-only.
> >
> > So I have no idea what is typo3. Any link how to install drupal on
> > Debian? I assume it is not that simple like "apt-get install
> > drupal".
>
> No, it's a bit more difficult. First you need to create a DB, grant
> privileges to one user and write this data to a configuration file.
> Upload Drupal and run the install script.

Ok, I will try to install it and see how it works.

> > I'm not sure I understand this. The SQL database is filled up by a
> > script, and has its own format (tables, data structure). To access
> > this database you have to write your own code, right? I was
> > wondering how easy is to add PHP pages to drupal with your own
> > code.
>
> What i wanted to say was that the optimal was to forget the tables
> and the php script that you already have and made it with Drupal. In
> Drupal you can create types of content with the fields you want (with
> cck module http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/88 ).

Yeah, but in this case the database tables are already created and 
unless we rewrite all the processing part (perl scripts) and the admin 
interface we cannot change their format. And I do not want to rewrite 
them, especially the scripts. This is about the uploaded resources by 
the users via the KNewStuff engine. The users upload different things 
(toolbars, scripts, documentation packages), and the script parses the 
uploaded data, puts the information into the database and things like 
that. In order to provide a list of the uploaded resources we have that 
page to retrieve the information from the database and provide in a 
consistent way (with the rest of the site). There is also another 
interface which manages the database, but that can stay as it is, as it 
is used only by the site admins and it doesn't matter how it looks. 
This admin interface is taken almost as it is from the ghns (get hot 
new stuff) authors.

Andras
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