By frychiko on

I've built a laptop shop / community site from scratch but now that I am nearing the end of the coding I am realizing I might be better off with Drupal...

But I'm not sure how I would go about adding a whole admin section for product management, as you can see in the shots below:

Aministration:
Products List #1
Products List #2
Categories

Front-end:
A Product Page
Forum for certain product
Reviews for certain product
Top 10 Laptops

If anyone has any idea where I could start? Creating a new module? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

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styro commented

Maybe if you hadn't already started the project it might be worthwhile considering Drupal, but it looks like you've done an awful lot of work there that seems a waste to throw out.

Yes, you could do that stuff in Drupal using a combination of taxonomy, views, cck etc (note: those aren't all ready for Drupal 6 yet) or with custom modules if you prefer. Whether or not it would be better than your existing code/platform is another question though that is hard to answer.

You'd need to weigh up the extra features Drupal would give you against the learning curve / delay in shifting to Drupal.

I'd probably recommend finishing off what you have, then casually play around with and learn Drupal to get a better idea of what it can do, how Drupal does stuff, and whether or not it interests you (you don't have to rush that part). Then later on you can decide whether or not "porting" a future version of your site to Drupal is worth it.

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frychiko commented

Thanks for your reply, styro.

I think I will stick to your recommendation for the time being and take my time learning Drupal 6 and wait for more material to be released specificially for version 6.