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I am fairly new to Drupal 7 and especially new to the entity concept. I need to create a site which records customer data (name, address etc) as well as other objects/entities such as orders, which are related to the customer with a parent/child relationship. I don't know how to do this in Drupal 6 and definitely not in Drupal 7. I know you can create a node reference as a field, but that is not what I want.

I'm pretty sure this has to do with entities, as entities are paralleled to objects, and what I really need is an object to own another object. I am presently listening through tutorials about Entities, but can someone point me in the correct direction to see what exactly I should be looking for (and to perhaps clarify the Entity concept to me).

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You should look at Drupal Commerce, a suite of modules that sets up e-commerce in Drupal. You will have a much easier time adapting Drupal Commerce to fit your needs than you will writing a store from scratch in Drupal.

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  • Thats the issue: I'm not creating a store, just a backend for administrators to store customer and user data. No one will be buying anything from this site. Would you still suggest commerce, or is there a simpler implementation for this? (also, it would like to learn more about the entity api anyways...)
    – user1015214
    Commented Aug 4, 2013 at 19:01
  • Yes, you should still look at Commerce. Commerce makes extensive use of the new features of Drupal 7, including entities. It is also completely modular; if you don't need payment, simply don't enable the payment module. You can also use the default permissions to shut off access to everything except to administrators.
    – Patrick Kenny
    Commented Aug 5, 2013 at 4:19

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