By ntheother on

I am new to CMSs in general however I do have background in PHP, database design etc. I have a concept in mind but I'm having trouble finding the right way to apply it in Drupal.

What I'd like to know how to do is this:

I'd like to create dynamic pages that are updated by modifying a data in a database using a form in the admin section. I'm not sure if I'd have to do that in PHP myself or if there is a module that can help me achieve that. I've looked at the Views plugin so far, and from what I have seen it only reads from the Drupal cms core db.

How can I achieve this? Are there special modules that will help me? Or would I have to dive deeper into the API of Drupal and write some PHP?

Thanks all in advance!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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jonfhancock’s picture

jonfhancock commented

This sounds like a job for CCK.

I think of CCK and Views as a symbiotic team. And it simulates a sort of object oriented approach.

For example, I create a CCK custom node type that just has a date, and a short description (we'll call it foo). Then I create a view that aggregates all nodes of the foo type into one page (we'll call this page bar). Then Whenever I want to push new content onto the bar page, I just create a new node of the foo type.

http://drupal.org/project/cck

Jon F Hancock

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ntheother commented

Thanks for your response I haven't taken a look at CCK yet, but I will do! Thanks again.