Advice

[mechanical_fruitz]

Hi,

I am developing a site using PW and I am excited about the prospects.

I was also considering getting involved in updating another site:

geograph.ie

It is obviously a bit dated.  My initial thought was that it was very Drupaly looking and that migrating to Drupal might be a good idea.  I have started and then stopped a number of projects using Drupal and I am a bit disillusioned with it's inherent awkwardness.  It always feels like you are one module away from getting something done.

Anyway, how would you approach moving this to PW ? Any quick ballpark figures on time or expertise required ?

thanks

[Pete]

It's all possible in ProcessWire, but that looks like a more complex site than most.

To my mind it would almost be easier to map out the templates on paper first to work out which fields you need for which templates and how they interact, then we could get a better idea of time involved. The problem from an outsider's perspective is that to me it looks almost over-complicated in places (so many options for searches that might be able to be streamlined using something like $pages->find('template=images|contributors|locations|discussions, keywords%=your search phrase') for example to search a common keyword field across multiple templates, assuming you have that field against many templates).That took me a bit off track, but the rest of the site looks quite large and very bespoke is what I'm getting at - it would be very difficult for an outsider to give you any idea of timescale to reproduce it in ProcessWire.

Having said that, if I was going to do anything as complicated as that myself then I would be 100% confident that you could build it all with ProcessWire. The sky is the limit, it just depends how much time you have

[pwired]

Anyway, how would you approach moving this to PW

Switching from drupal to processwire

http://processwire.com/talk/topic/1015-switching-from-drupal-to-processwire/page__view__findpost__p__8988

Taken from this starters thread:

http://processwire.com/talk/topic/4173-grouped-forum-posts-links-articles-tutorials-code-snippets/