And cache the results of whatever you fetch. No need to grab that data on every page load. - Ken RIckard agentrickard On 8/16/07, Jeff Griffiths <anisotropic@gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/15/07, Ron Dorman <rwd@simplydigtech.net> wrote:
I am thinking: strip down the current ASP pages to just grab the needed data, transparent to the end user, and feed it back into Drupal for use and display. I just haven't figured out how to make this happen within Drupal.
A sample module will be very much appreciated and hopefully help others as well.
I would take a look at modules that use external APIs such as Flickr[1] for pointers. Essentially wha you're doing is stripping down the ASP output to a web service ( plain text, xml or even JSON ) and then implementing a server-side-proxy for that data in Drupal. Make sure you use curl instead of fopen as it is much faster.
cheers, JeffG