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By bluepuma on
Hello everyone,
I really like the idea of using Drupal as framework for a custom website, using all the nice menu, user management, forum and other basic functionality - "don't reinvent the wheel".
For months I am trying (with breaks) to build my own module, bought and read 2 books and studied one online, read many threads on the Drupal website. I can install Drupal, create a module and get "Hello world" to work, but that's about it.
The questions I got are the basic interaction features:
- How do I create interaction through different links to the module (e.g. view page 2, select XY detail)?
- How do I create and read data input fields? How do I re-display those for updates/changes?
- How do I select, insert and update simple data with the Drupal database APIs?
- How do I create and read data input fields? How do I re-display those for updates/changes?
What I am really missing is a little tutorial on how do build a little shop or a simple vocabulary trainer. Maybe even as screencast with voice?
Furthermore, what happened to those fantastic sequence diagrams from computer science class? I loved the visualization of which functions and classes are nested in each other to find the right spot to make some changes.
I am sure this would help the Drupal community a lot because more people will be enabled to do much more with Drupal.
Cheers
Mike
