By littleneo on

hum.. it's certainly a silly question but.. as a drupal noob you'll be perhaps comprehensive.

as far as I tested drupal (third day, noob rank), one can turn a page into a book, or a book into a page, add a pol, link every kind of content to any menu etc... by configuring the different fields while adding some content. for sure the type is not modified but in the fact, there's no visual differences, as far as I know, hence this post..
according to me it looks like a great way to store a lot of publication presets and processing.

can you explain me why I'm wrong and what is the real purpose of the type ? :-)
many thanks.

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vm commented

this may help = http://drupal.org/node/302317

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nevets commented

If you use the Content Construct Kit (CCK) or a custom module you can create content types that contain any number of additional fields. The content types that come with core while similar do have so behavioral differences.

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littleneo commented

thanks for your replies. :-)

so the real difference is about different editing permissions, different theming, different fields, a different module linked to the id content type.. ?
In fact I've already installed cck, and saw what you said about fields. as one can add/create/reuse new fields in any content type, I was wondering.

.. just to be sure.. 'article', 'page', 'blog', 'image' etc.. are community conventions, the real point is the id type in the drupal db, so I can add/edit/mix/mess around fields, content type name, presets, as I want, provided there's the original new field(s) the subjacent module needs to work ?