Barcelona session proposal: Unified content abstraction
I’m writing a session proposal and kind of thinking out loud. The idea is to provide a universal API for generating Drupal content outside of its original context. Something like the Component module on steroids.
Attached is a hasty diagram of the system, which would be a feeding engine for modules like Panels and MySite, and would make creating custom Blocks much easier, too.
In the diagram, the yellow boxes are the API elements.
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Please whoever is organizing the schedules, don’t schedule this one opposite one of my talks. :-) There are places where Drupal’s push-style output is great, and places where you really want/need pull-based code. Component module was a quick’n'dirty pull module for when I needed it. Something more powerful that still gave us the simplicity of Component would be highly cool.
By Larry Garfield on 08.28.07 1:39 am
Larry, make sure you post that on the conference site. :-)
By Ken Rickard on 08.28.07 8:45 am
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