Building Drupal websites with the CCK and Views modules

I just launched my new Drupal website, How I Sold My Business: A Personal Diary. A cool thing about this site is that the Charities and Businesses portions of the website were created almost entirely without programming.

Before reading any more of this article, take a look at the Charities page on that site, then come back to this article ...

The Drupal CCK and Views modules

As you saw, the Charities page consisted of a list of charities that my eBook readers have recommended, along with a form to let you suggest new charities for the list. The cool thing about this is that if I hadn't added the validation piece at the bottom of the "add" form (requiring that people own a copy of my eBook), this would have required no programming at all.

That's so much fun to say, let me repeat it: no programming at all.

I'll share more about this in future Drupal tutorials (and videos), but in short, you can create forms and output like this if you're willing to learn how to use the Drupal CCK and Views modules.

I've already written a lot of Drupal tutorials on my devdaily.com website, so until I create these new CCK and Views tutorials, I'll direct you there for more information.

Reporting live from beautiful downtown Boulder, Colorado, this is Alvin Alexander.