Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] button to pass value & default lookup

[Jough D. <jou...@gm...>]

Our SOP for new Drupal projects is to create a project module by which
we can override certain Drupal behaviour with its hook system.

I don't know of an easier way to interface custom code with Drupal
without using the mechanism that was designed for extending Drupal.  I
suppose your module functions can call other custom code and you can
just use the hooks to grab the piece of Drupal you want to override.

I know what you mean about not wanting to have to learn Drupal.  The
learning curve for the hook system is pretty steep, and if you're not
investing long-term into your Drupal skills for multiple projects you
probably won't get a lot of ROI for the time you spend learning this
stuff.

I'd recommend downloading a few small modules and using them as an
example.  The "privatemsg" module for allowing users to send messages
to each other uses a lot of the Drupal hooks in a way that may be, if
not obvious, then easier to understand in context.

-- Jough

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:37 PM, derby <der...@gm...> wrote:
> The pathauto is an essential drupal module.  Great recommend.  I don't
> know much about writing php inside drupal.  You might be interested in
> the workflow module and possible the views module.
>
> The workflow module allows you to setup actions triggered by an event,
> such as a new bid in your case.
>
> The views module allows remolding the display of your drupal data to
> present information outside the normal drupal way.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Neil Rest <Nei...@rc...> wrote:
>> Thanks.  I've just downloaded <http://drupal.org/project/pathauto>
>>
>> Pathauto
>>
>> , but haven't looked inside yet, but it sounds great for that problem.
>>
>> I was hoping not to have to get into the API.  I have enough learning
>> walls on my plate already . . .  </mixed metaphor>
>>
>>
>> At 01:09 PM 1/22/2009, Jough Dempsey <jou...@gm...> wrote:
>>>Is this Drupal 5 or 6?  The forms API is a little different for each,
>>>but basically you want to look at using "hook_form_alter" to alter the
>>>form you want, or the form API to build a form that can be submitted.
>>>
>>>The Path Auto module will allow you to create the path you want.  It's
>>>a pretty common module and we use it in a number of our Drupal
>>>projects.
>>>
>>>-- Jough
>>>
>>>On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Neil Rest <Nei...@rc...> wrote:
>>> > I'm building a system in drupal in which Vendors submit Bids against
>>> > Tenders.  (Vendor, Bid, & Tender are content types.)
>>> > I want to put a button on the bottom of the Tender page "Submit Bid",
>>> > which will take the user to the New Bid page with the Tender as the
>>> > default in the Tender node reference field, and the Vendor associated
>>> > with the user in the Vendor node reference field.
>>> >
>>> > Also, when the new Bid is completed, I want to path it
>>> > /tender/bid/#### finishing the path with the id# created by the user.
>>> >
>>> > (This looks like it'll take some PHP.  I'm a lot stronger in PHP than
>>> > in drupal, so that's not intimidating, but I don't want to get
>>> > twisted up in the drupal API any more than I have to.)
>>> >
>>
>>
>> Neil
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