NYCPHP Meetup

[Ajai Khattri]

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Damion Hankejh wrote:

> The need for customization
> outstripped the usefulness and time savings of its base functionality. After
> ~2 months of working with it and some top-shelf Drupal consultants, we
> scrapped everything in Drupal and returned to our custom PHP/MySQL/Smarty
> code base -- I quickly grew tired of hearing, "Drupal does things this way,
> so we have to rewrite this module."  In hindsight, the time spent
> customizing Drupal to meet our requirements would have been better used to
> roll our own features.

This mirrors my own experience using content systems to build web sites, 
and why I moved on to frameworks. At some point there are just too 
many integration points where it becomes more costly to modify and 
maintain than building with a solid framework. Drupal is not really a 
framework and wasn't designed to be, but ome people have molded 
(twisted?) it to do more.



-- 
Aj.