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I've spent many hours building my project with Drupal, without digging in deep to the API. As I said I don't require massive CMS functionality, the standard Drupal blog and forum modules are lacking (common knowledge), I've uninstalled CCK and views modules because there were massive behemoths. I started with Drupal because I thought it would save me loads of man hours/coding, but some of the problems I have experienced.... I'm starting to question my initial decision.

CORRECTION: should be: Drupal is know for horrendous amounts of db calls just to serve up even a SIMPLE page.

@Anti-Moronic: thanks very much for the fullness of your reply. I was thinking the same. I don't need nor desire my fixed content pages to be served up by a database. Other data - fine, because they would be input from users ie submitting comments. Drupal is know for horrendous amounts of db calls just to serve up even a page. The most complicated thing on the site would be a simple e-commerce section which interfaces with PayPal IPN, and that I'm sure I can hook in with a class from PHPclasses. I thought it would be sensible to get some feedback from others, perhaps more experienced than myself, before making a a decision. Coding my own would mean I am very familiar with the code and there would be more satisfaction at the end result.

Hi all I have run into several critical issues with Druapl. I have spent months (I'm a sole, inexperienced developer) working on a project for myself, but have been vexed at the following: white screen of death: result - my app just stops working, displaying only a white screen. This is a PHP memory issue (I'm on shared hosting - though with generous settings ie 128MB PHP_memory available). I also find I can't search for PHP code within nodes Drupal is slow as a dog - the built in caching helps. Now, I have toyed with the idea of coding my own app. I have limited knowledge in PHP, HTML, CSS etc though I have been developing for over five years. I thought of doing my own site from scratch, as I don't really need a full on CMS/community app. I mainly need to serve pages (probably includes), with minimal MySQL for user / authentication. I don't mind starting off with less functionality and thought that I could simply 'bolt-on' classes/functions from scripting sites, till I get up and running. Can I please have your opinion. I know I've given limited background info, but can supply more if required. I just want to see if I'm being arrogant and stupid.