[drupal-support] deep integration with an existing site...

[Chris Johnson]

Bèr Kessels wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Unless you know a lot about Drupal, this is very hard to do. Even if you know 
> drupal well enough it is not easy. 

Well, if you know how to create new modules, it is not too bad.  :-)


> The other method, however might prove the easiest: Do not wrap Drupal in your 
> application, but wrap your application in Drupal. Just write a 
> my_application.module that calls your application; This will integrate 
> seamlessly.

That would be my suggestion, as well.  I've done this for a couple of 
applications at my employer.  Drupal is the framework, and my custom modules 
generate the "legacy" output which is wrapped into the Drupal created page. 
In fact, it works very nicely and was not too hard to do.  I hacked together 
my first proof of concept module to do this in one evening (and I even went to 
bed before midnight).

> 
> Op woensdag 22 juni 2005 06:14, schreef D_C:
> 
>>I am wondering about how to wrap Drupal into an existing site.
>>I run a site which is like a big database, with lots of URLs that are
>>basically queries; like a dictionary...
> 
> 
>>>site.com?tag=lookupWord


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Chris Johnson