In this chapter, we are creating our new content type by coding a module.
However, there is another way we could create a new content type. One of the most prolific Drupal add-on modules is the Content Creation Kit (CCK). CCK provides a visual interface for creating custom content types.
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The future of CCK and Views
It is very likely that CCK will be incorporated into the core in Drupal 7. Why? Because it is a robust, well-written, useful module that is among the most frequently used, and it provides a set of features desirable in a CMS framework. A similarly popular module, the Views module, is also likely to be incorporated.
When creating a content type of moderate complexity, CCK is usually the right tool for the job. However, there are a few reasons why we will write a module instead of using CCK:
1. Writing a content type from scratch gives us more insight into internals, and provides the opportunity to examine several powerful APIs. By writing this low-level...