By drupal interested cms possibility on

First off I have a basic understanding of php, but no experience developing for drupal.
Im working on a project(still in drawing/planning stage) but one of the requirements will be auto scanning directories for new files and then have drupal act according to certain criteria, once files are added.

the files would be added either by ftp accounts or uploaded as zip files (this would be trough a form, but not in the sense that every file included in the zip where given titles ect.).

So is there any modules out there that does anything similar to what i described? I haven't been able to find any, but I could be searching in the wrong terms.

Im aware there are a lot of security concerns with this approach, which would need to be addressed, but first off Im mostly curious if this approach sounds possible with drupal and your thoughts on this?

Drupal sounds very flexible, so I hope this is possible in some way or another.

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devenderdagar’s picture

devenderdagar commented

Yes it is very much possible to put content in nodes without going the normal drupal form. You can scan some files in some particuklar folder and then can create nodes.

I did this kind of functionality for reading some files uploaded by some third party. You can create some xml or can read files at some cron run.

I hope this will help you.

Cheers

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drupal interested cms possibility commented

Thanks for the reply, sounds wonderful.

Any tips on where to go and get the best overview of drupals structure, in order to create modules for it?
Ok found the handbooks and api reference

Also I don't see any paid modules on drupal.org is this because they aren't allowed due to drupals licens or simply because this is just a great community or am i just missing them?
found this answer: http://drupal.org/node/30708

I would certainly keep my own modules open for all the help I can get.

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mitchmac commented

There are a number of modules that may help you, there's an overview at http://groups.drupal.org/node/21338 .

It's also very easy to create nodes programmatically, if the available modules don't help you. A search for "programmatically create node" will give you lots of examples.

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drupal interested cms possibility commented

thank you, exactly what i where looking for. can't wait to get started :)