George, Just a word of caution, I am not very familiar with Drupal, but I am familiar with XOOPs and Joomla, but I find their ability to handle the creation of forms very complicated, and not intuitive. Also remember that after completing the migration of the user login etc, then you have to move the forms into the Drupal way of doing things? Have you looked into other vanilla PHP frameworks like CakePHP/Code Igniter/Symphony? Stephen
_____ From: George Lule [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 11:09 AM To: Linux Users Group Uganda Subject: [LUG] Porting WAMP apps into Drupal Guys, I have 2 applications that were developed basing on WAMP. They do perform different jobs but they share the following functionality: - Allowing self registration of users. - Once a user is registered, can log into the system and do a number of things(....very boring details here...) but bottom line, they both verify data, authenticate data against present values, check if fields have been filled and others. - Most forms upon submitting data into the db, immediately send mails to a number of groups which the user selects himself and others that are hardcoded. I wish to port these 2 into Drupal, but 1. These applications have a particular look and feel which I don't want to change, yet Drupal seems pretty stuck in its preset/downloadble themes. I haven't yet found a clear way to override them so as to preserve my own look n feel. Do you know how I can achieve this? 2. I haven't got a proper guide that can help me port both entire applications as they are into Drupal. Could you kindly provide/point me to a guide that can assist in this regard? 3. Finally, I found this step by step introduction http://www.gouncleweb.com/typd_welcome_drupal_website but it was designed for 5.x and some of its steps require tweaking to fit into 6.15. Do you know of anyother equally good one but geared towards 6.15? Regards George
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