CCK (Content Construction Kit)

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Submitted by Fred on Tue, 20/01/2009 - 20:08

CCK (or Content Construction Kit) is one of the most important modules to help the new, and even seasoned, Drupal website creators. Rather than having to painstakingly create your new content type by hand in a custom module, CCK allows you to create a new content type with a few clicks of a mouse.

Naturally there are downsides to this approach - when it comes to migrating changes from Dev to Staging to Live servers, ussing CCK makes the job harder as all changes are stored in the DB. Whereas a custom module can be easily updated and enabled.

CCK is one of the first modules I install into a Drupal site, even knowing the issues outlined above. I will learn the other, custom module, method of creating content types when I can.