[consulting] consulting Digest, Vol 53, Issue 30

[Sarah Poger Gladstone]

The level of integration I am looking for is just single-sign on so
that anyone with a Drupal user name and password can seamlessly log
into Moodle.   Then picking a similar color scheme for the Moodle
theme so that it compliments the Drupal theme.

I am NOT planning to tie content from from one to the other, or any
other connectivity.

Some links I have looked at for single sign on:
http://drupal.org/project/moodle    and
http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=2941&filter=1

Thanks,
Sarah

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Sami Khan <sami at etopian.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 11:06 -0400, Joe Murray wrote:
>
>> Just to echo parts of what Sami and Tim are saying: try to keep the
>> level of integration required between the Moodle and Drupal/CiviCRM
>> parts of the site to a minimum. Where it is necessary, try to make it
>> as thin and standardized as possible, or as loose and distant as
>> possible. For example, give Moodle and Drupal/CiviCRM complementary
>> but separate branding, so you don't have to replicate changes in both
>> environments, especially not simultaneously. It might even be good to
>> make one application a subdomain, eg crm.mycongregation.org. Also, you
>> might want to try to avoid developing integrated login by using LDAP
>> for single sign-on, though of course setting that up for Moodle and
>> Drupal / CiviCRM can be its own small kettle of fish. The objective as
>> I see it would be to avoid having to maintain middleware code that
>> would have to be kept in synch with two or more projects that each has
>> its own upgrade cycle.
>
> Agree. The problem is that there is no middle ware. Any such work often
> ends up corrupting one of the systems with tons of hacks that are not
> easily maintained. Also, it never looks like one app and expending
> resources to make it look like one is a waste of time.
>
>>
>> As this is starting to become fairly complex but is really useful for
>> your vertical, you might want to make it into a SaaS offering so that
>> the setup and maintenance costs (and expertise) can be reduced through
>> scale and allocated to more customers.
>
> Agree.
>
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