By summit on

Hi,

I see a lot of posts about entities and also a lot of reading, for example:
http://wouters-frederik.tumblr.com/post/7004722849/programming-an-entity...
http://www.lullabot.com/articles/module-monday-inline-entity-form
http://www.istos.it/en/blog/drupal-entities/drupal-entities-part-3-progr...
http://www.agileapproach.com/blog-entry/entity-based-information-archite...

Is there may be already someone who has an distribution of a D7 website to share with a custom entity; say pizza's, newspapers, accommodation, cars etc...
With which those entities (not nodes/taxonomy/comments/products) can be edited, changed, shown (by views)?
This would be great as starting point and give, I think, a lot of people a jump start with entities!

Thanks a lot in advance for your reply!
greetings,
Martijn

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WorldFallz commented

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking for, but lots of drupal 7 sites have entities-- but you can't really tell that by browsing a site as a regular user. Any of the drupal commerce sites have custom entities. Working with custom entities is pretty much the same as working with core entities but really depends on the details of the implementation.

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summit commented

Hi,

Thanks for your quick reply! I am especially not referring to commerce, but may be a site with a completely different entity fullblown through the system from which I can as a matter of speaking only change everywhere pizza to my entity and then the system would work for my custom entity.

In my case this would be accommodation. I need this because I am trying to build a frontend in drupal for a database which may have hunderd thousands of records for a specific subject which I want to give for free to the public. I am thinking of using a Mongo DB backend, and a drupal frontend, but with entities because of the amount of records. Therefore my question.

greetings, Martijn

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WorldFallz commented

...only change everywhere pizza to my entity and then the system would work for my custom entity.

Entities don't work that way. They are completely custom and thus not interchangeable.

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summit commented

Hi,
Great we have this discussion.
I disagree. A lot of a entity can be put in the system I think and then it is a sort of deeper layer then node/term etc..
Why should it all be custom and not somehow be standardised. Therefore modules can then be written etc..

I see these distributions, which could be used maybe?
http://drupal.org/project/crm_core
http://drupal.org/project/recruiter (http://epiqo.com/en/introducing-drupal-7-e-recruitment-distribution-erec...)

May be there is also a travel distribution anywhere, or someone who likes to share his accommodation entity stuff?

Greetings, Martijn