Using CCK/Views or Movie Database module for Databasing Forms?
georgec431v - June 19, 2009 - 23:11
Is it practical to use CCK and Views modules to keep forms of volunteer information (name, address, availability, etc) and also allow querying this database of such information? Are there any better solutions for keeping such a database? Thanks!
Please don't post duplicate
Please don't post duplicate threads. I've deleted the dupe. Thanks.
As for your question-- drupal is a database application. This is exactlly the type of thing you build with drupal. As for whether or not there are better solutions, i would say no-- but then you're asking on drupal.org ;-)
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Wrong question...
That's not what he's asking. He's not asking for something other than Drupal, he's asking about CKK/Views vs. this module:
http://drupal.org/project/moviedb
My answer:
Though MovieDB looks good, it's still early in development - and the time when it will be useful for something other than movies looks to be pretty far in the future. I'd go with CCK and Views on this one.
This is also one of the few cases where I'd enable CCK's Content Permissions. You wouldn't want anonymous users seeing volunteers' home addresses.
-Karlheinz
Agreed ...
Agreed completely with WorldFallz. I do this type of work all the time using Views and CCK.
-backdrifting
What about files?
We also wanted to store files (e.g. Word docs of volunteer reports). Could Views allow for browsing through files that people upload? Or would it be better to use a module like DBFM (database file manager) http://drupal.org/project/dbfm ?
Thanks for the feedback! Really helps.
P.S. Sorry for double thread, I did not realize because of browser lag.
Regards,
George
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I handle files by creating a "file" content type and attaching them to that (either with core upload or a filefield cck field). It's really a matter of preference-- if you want the additional features of dbfm or webfm then by all means use them. Whether or not you can use views will depend on the module you choose and if it implements views compatibility.
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Late advice
Sorry this comment is so late, but I thought I'd give one final piece of advice...
If you use Drupal for anything complex, you'll almost certainly need CCK and Views in any case. FileField is also used pretty extensively. You're probably going to need these modules anyway, so I'd say go ahead and install them.
Views in particular is very powerful, and can be used for most applications where you'd need database queries. (In fact, Views is mostly an "HTML wrapper" for queries - you are actually given the SQL code that generates the view when you set it up.)
Every module I've run across (that is not still in -dev) supports these modules, so I doubt you'll have any conflicts.
-Karlheinz