Posted by julma on June 7, 2007 at 10:24pm
How do you deal with object composition within drupal ?
Do you use Taxonomy + Panel + View ?
Do you use node reference with CCK node ?
Other solutions ?
What are your ways to define a container of other objects ?
Which drupal modules are involved in "object composition" nowadays ?
Object composition is about building "large" objects from "smaller" ones.
Here is a definition of object composition on wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_(computer_science)
And an explanation about how composition differs from inheritance. http://brighton.ncsa.uiuc.edu/prajlich/T/node14.html
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I have the same question....
I have the same question....
I think its hard to answer
I think its hard to answer that in general, but if you give an example it will be easier to discuss the possibilities, and make a comparison between different methods.
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