Hi All,
My thanks in advance of all subsequent replies, and thank you to you all for creating such a create community and creating Drupal.
I have a bit a technical question regarding building content types. I couldn't just see the answer the anywhere, but I am quite prepared to admit that it might of been starring me in the face.
I am creating a lot of custom content types for a project that I am working on, but it dawned on me. Is it better to re-use the fields that are the same content type rather than to create new ones?
So for example if I create 2 Review content types, one for TV and one for Radio:
Radio Review
- Review Title
- Name of Radio
- Materials made out of
- clarity of sound
- Is it portable?
TV Review
- Review Title
- Name of TV
- Materials made out of
- clarity of sound
- clarity of image
Some of those fields are going to be similar (Name, Materials made out of, clarity of sound). So if I created the radio review first, when I create the TV review and the tv review fields which are similar, from a design/performance/best practice point of view, am I best off creating new fields or reusing the Radio Review fields?
Thanks in advance for all posts,
Mark.
Comments
Answering my own question...
...a bit further reading @ Drupal book has shown that I have not read around this enough.
This documentation seems to suggest that where possible fields should always be re-used unless there is a permissions issue.
Sorry for creating a bit of a nonsense...but maybe it will help others in the future!
Thanks again for anyone who has read up on this for me, my question is now solved.
Mark.