By Robardi56 on

Hi,
still undecided to use drupal or not, after spending long period on this site and on my installation.

I need to create several nodes types (content types).

Flexinodes make it easy. But from what I read, it is less performant than built in method. Since I will need like about 20+ fields per content types, and have several thousands nodes, I had a look at how to creat custom nodes types and came over this page: http://drupal.org/node/35686

Is this the ONLY way to create nodes types ? I mean this is really a geek stuff ^^ I'm not a programmer . What about the nightmare of upgrading the nodes type modules from upgrade to upgrade, as I see upgrade needs to be done from 4.6.6 to 4.7.

I really don't understand why such an essential feature as adding node type doesn't come with a user friendly mode. This is a reason that is severly preventing me from making the decision to convert to drupal.

Brakkar

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Heine’s picture

Heine commented

I really don't understand why such an essential feature as adding node type doesn't come with a user friendly mode.

The easy way is called flexinode.
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dman commented

And Content Creation Kit - User Friendly And Powerful.

Neither are optimal performance wise, because optimal would be a hand-tuned database table and interfaces to it that always knew exactly what shape the data was going to be and had no frills or capacity for expansion.

You have the choice - User Friendly (in ALL cases) has a bit more error-checking and general-case abstracted code overhead.
If you truly believe you are going to need to optimize your performance in ways not done already by flexinode and caching - then you are talking like a programmer.

I haven't seen too many complaints about flexinode performance, and I don't much like the multi-field schema myself, but it's a neccessary way of allowing non-programmers to add and subtract field definitions of many different types at random - the user friendly mode.

Easy, Powerful, Efficient. Pick Two.

.dan.

http://www.coders.co.nz/

.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards

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cog.rusty commented

It sound like you are considering to use something other than Drupal for creating content with a custom format. I am interested. What do you have in mind?

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Robardi56 commented

I didn't knew about this CCK. I'm going to investigate.

CogRusty, from all the CMS I explored, I selected 3: Drupal, Ez Publisher, and Bitrix.

They all allow to create any type of content with any number of fields. They all have their strength and weakness.

Drupal seems to be the best one, altough it is not the most friendly, and i'm a bit reluctant to "dirty" upgrade process of open source / addons products. Also I read scarry post in the forum on high traffic site overload caused by drupal.

Bitrix, an expensive commercial solution, has the least features, but seems rock solid performance / upgrade / security wise.