Wanting to leave Drupal.. can I…?

  • Resolved tpainton

    (@tpainton)


    10 years ago

    Hello, long time drupaler since v 1.0. Mainly because it was my first CMS. My wife, a photographer, recently created a prophoto website with WordPress and asked for a little help from me. I was pretty impressed with wordpress. It’s a very fine CMS.

    I’m tired of struggling through major upgrades with Drupal. I have a very customized site with drupal 5 and the thought of rewriting my site to go to 7 is just annoying. Soon D5 will be abandoned and I’ll be left with a site that’s prone to hacks. (already hacked once… not fun.. my fault.. fell behind on updating a module)

    Anyway, I’m hoping a diehard wordpress fanatic may tell me what I want to do is very simple. I do code php, but would really love a simple solution as I am neck deep a totally different project right now.

    basically, my site sells custom documents to physicians.. They fill in the blanks of a form, and based on the answers, I create a custom document (pdf) which they pay for, and then download.

    Sounds so simple, but it required a ton of programming in Drupal to get it done. A rewrite for D7 will take weeks I’m sure. I use Ubercart for Drupal and Authorize.net for the eCommerce part.

    I’m so impressed with wp, I would love to switch over.. Willing to do some coding, but I’d like to avoid writing a custom module.

    I did some quick searches for key words on this, but got a million returns. Thought a quick and dirty first step might be to just put this to the community and see what pops out.

    Thanks, and am I’m looking forward to having a wordpress site. You know… it’s a pretty killer CMS. I always thought it was just a bloggers framework, but after seeing prophoto, it’s got legs.

    -Todd

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  • Moderator Marius L. J.

    (@clorith)

    Hi Todd,

    That should be quite doable with existing plugins indeed.

    What seems to be the simplest approach would be to use Gravity Forms along with the Gravity PDF plugin (I’ve not tested this PDF plugin my self though).

    This approach requires a little bit of work on your end in creating the PDF template, but I suspect you already have the template already as you have an existing service for it, so all you’d need to do is put in the correct placeholders in your existing template.

    Thread Starter tpainton

    (@tpainton)

    Thanks for the reply. This looks perfect! There is even an Authorize.net plugin that integrates and charges once the form is created.. Thank you so much for the recommendations.

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