OpenBand

After a lot of time working on another program, I’ve finally been able to devote some energy to the Draft Module that I created and currently maintain on the Drupal Web framework.

The main feature requested for Draft module was a PHP page view instead of forcing the use of Views module. While on my hiatus from Drupal, I brainstormed how to make the PHP version of the page as functional and easy to use as the Views version of the module, as well as allowing the administrator to alter columns.

A lot of people have been asking about the Draft module and when more updates will be incorporated into the module. For the last four months I have been working on non-Drupal projects, but am back and want to post a quick update answering some of the most common questions.

Draft version 1 for Drupal 6 incorporated support for Views in the place of a standard PHP page listing for user drafts. The module was very compact and the database table was small utilizing the bare minimum of fields (Draft ID, Node Type, UID, Updated and Data where data was a serialized array).

Drupal is a collaboration framework. It started as a simple system for managing conversations and files between friends in school, and has maintained that spirit through its many evolutions. But, as most things do, Drupal reached an age of maturity—it was time for the CMS to graduate and expand.