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Intro to Drupal to a developerIntro to Drupal to a developer
Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on April 4, 2007 - 3:10pm
Drupal is written in PHP. A lot of things (not everything) in Drupal is a "node". So from your perspective Drupal can handle the creation of content (as nodes) of any types and also the management of users logging in. Your module would create the ability for people to do something to content (a ratings module would be a good place to find an example of this), and also create user-specific pages listing the recommendations of people they subscribe to. I don't know of an example of how to extend users (to add "subscribe to this user" buttons) but I'm sure you (specifically you!) can do it.
Aside from figuring out how to write a Drupal module, and what hooks to use (Drupal is based on implementing "_hook" functions that tie into core functionality and can modify the behavior of other modules), the tricky part comes in how you want to interact with all the other modules available to Drupal. Should your module tell the userpoints module how to give users credit for doing whatever to content, for instance?
Anyhow, once you have a chance to do it, I'm sure you'll be able to build a module with OmniNews functionality in no time.
See http://drupal.org/contributors-guide
And especially the module developers guide:
http://drupal.org/node/508
Drupal is written in PHP. A lot of things (not everything) in Drupal is a "node". So from your perspective Drupal can handle the creation of content (as nodes) of any types and also the management of users logging in. Your module would create the ability for people to do something to content (a ratings module would be a good place to find an example of this), and also create user-specific pages listing the recommendations of people they subscribe to. I don't know of an example of how to extend users (to add "subscribe to this user" buttons) but I'm sure you (specifically you!) can do it.
Aside from figuring out how to write a Drupal module, and what hooks to use (Drupal is based on implementing "_hook" functions that tie into core functionality and can modify the behavior of other modules), the tricky part comes in how you want to interact with all the other modules available to Drupal. Should your module tell the userpoints module how to give users credit for doing whatever to content, for instance?
Anyhow, once you have a chance to do it, I'm sure you'll be able to build a module with OmniNews functionality in no time.
See http://drupal.org/contributors-guide
And especially the module developers guide:
http://drupal.org/node/508
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