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By Lindsay Warren on
Hello Experts,
I have developed a site in Dreamweaver/MS Access and am hopefully going to get it together in Drupal.
As a learning curve, could any of you guys point me in the right direction as a beginner. I have got past the "install and play about with stage" and now would like to crack on. A good book suggestion would help as I need to get to grips with the database and displaying results. I need some help please.
To save an explanation please see
http://www.nazeinghackers.com
It is a golf website.
I hope you can help.
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Imo the best book on site building is the 'using drupal' book from oreilly. For development, I like 'pro drupal development', but I don't see anything on the site that would require custom dev.
Thanks Wordfallz, I
Thanks Wordfallz, I appreciate that.
I think that my biggest problem will be manipulating the data. Its pretty easy in MS Access but looks much more difficult with MySQL.
For instance, the info gained from a Crosstab query, and before that I need to get all the related tables into drupal, or can it be a separate db to link to? Loads of questions and lots of reading methinks !!
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You really don't want to be manipulating data directly via sql until you've gotten a very firm grasp of drupal and lots of dev experience. You can quite easily bork your entire site so bad it will be unrecoverable. Even experienced developers, myself included, generally stick to php and the drupal api most of the time.
As I said, I don't see anything there that requires custom development. I would concentrate on building the site the 'drupal way' first, and then worry about custom development if you encounter something you can't do that standard way.