By BruisedGhost on

Hi all,

A client of mine had requested some drupal back end features to be added to their website. This was completed but now they want the whole website to be editable via drupal (the old static html pages). I was thinking that it would be possible to create a series of editable forms that could be updated at the clients discretion and remove the bulk of the old html and replace it with php echoing the content of forms that were setup. I wanted to know if anyone has ever attempted anything like this and if they had any pointers for me.

Im assuming all I will need to do is create a connection to the drupal database and do a few select statements then echo the results to the static page...
unless Im completely forgetting something.

Thanks

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LiquidWeb’s picture

LiquidWeb commented

I believe creating a theme from existing site and modifying drupal would be alot easier.

coderintherye’s picture

coderintherye commented

Hi,

You want to export the Drupal nodes as static HTML right? I developed a custom module for exporting HTML content from Drupal out to an FTP server. You set up the surrounding HTML you want from an administration menu, and it inserts the content from the body of the node into it. Then, you just enter in your FTP login and directory and it sends it out as static .html pages. It is still a work in progress though, so reply here or send me an e-mail if you are interested in trying it out.