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A comment on Drupal's Golden Handcuffs. Parent comment

Re:Drupal's Golden Handcuffs by jackbravo on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @07:40PM (#4604990)
it all depends. Example, if you want to assign a role to a new user when he signs up you can install http://drupal.org/project/autoassignrole module which does about 10 more things or just write one hook_user function.

If you install a module for every piece of functionality soon you'll end up with a huge codebase and the hell the author is describing.

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Re:Drupal's Golden Handcuffs by Pwnguinz on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @09:54PM (#4605411)
You are responding to the author ;).

That said, I wholeheartedly agree.

Did Drupal dev for 2 years, and my biggest takeaway was: Don't go around installing custom modules for one dinky feature. Wrap it up in your own custom module.

Less dependency hell to deal with, and not only that, you'll have a much easier time debugging code you wrote yourself.

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