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Common Drupal Requests

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:46 am
by jack_indigo
In a lot of PHP job searches, I often see requests for the following things:

- osCommerce experience
- Drupal experience
- Zend Framework or Code Igniter experience

Sure, some jobs deviate from that, but when you look at lots and lots of PHP jobs, you see this recurring pattern of those 3. And I take it when they say Drupal experience, they aren't just talking about installing it or using the admin system. They likely want you to know a good bit more.

So my question to you is -- in your past experience, what have you heard from clients regarding Drupal tasks? What kinds of things do they want you to do with Drupal besides install it or use the admin system?

I want to block out an hour a day to study Drupal to fit common client requests.

Re: Common Drupal Requests

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:31 am
by alex.barylski
Most want extensions built in a SEF/SEO fashion with full admin panels.

Joomle for instance has many offers, but the admin is what clients already know, they are looking for osCommerce integration, so they can use osCommerce/Magento as a backend admin but Joomla component to render the front end, so the shopping experience is seamless for the client, never leaving the main site design to land on the osCommerce shopping cart, themed differently than the web site.

Different folks use different strokes, I have a buddy who just wraps everything in an IFRAME component, so it appears to be within the site template but in reality it's the actual output being shown in the ocntext of IFRAME.

Re: Common Drupal Requests

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:05 pm
by jack_indigo
I've dealt with osCommerce. Man, what a bunch of spaghetti code.

Magento is slow when you throw a bunch of data into it -- fast if you only have a few items. Load it up with a catalog of, say, half of JCPenney's Fall Collection, or try to run a T-Shirt business from it, and it slows to a crawl on each click.

I like the IFRAME technique. The only trick is -- make certain it doesn't turn on the scrollbars or has content that overflows and causes those bars to come on.

Re: Common Drupal Requests

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:18 pm
by alex.barylski
IFRAME isn't SEF/SEO...I don't use that technique but instead deliver a modular web page in one complete HTTP request.