[kdewebdev-site] redesign of the quanta web site

[Carlos Rincón]

> >
> > 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.

In fact in Drupal you can use some of your code making a custom module
but, of course, you need first knowing how to make drupal modules.

At long term it could be good but now it's easier to keep your code and
skip the CMS's.

> 
> Andras
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Carlos Rincón
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