Op woensdag 15 augustus 2007, schreef Ron Dorman:
A client wants to move an existing site to Drupal.
The catch is that the existing site has two pages that are ASP. The ASP pages connect to a 3rd party hosted backoffice package and database.
The clients current site is on a dedicated leased Win / IIS / Plesk Control Panel server. The Plesk package provides php 5.2 and MySQL 5 so I do not believe we will have any issues installing and running Drupal on the server.
Here is how I "integrated" a python system, and a Ruby 'app': One approach: fopen() * put the asp pages on a localhost, or none-web-accessible place, then do a fopen(), optionally cache the result in the Drupal DB and print the result. Simple. Hackish but works in less then 10 minutes. Second approach: exec() * find out if asp has options to run over a CLI. php can do it, ruby, python and all the others too, so I gues (well, something tells me not to be to sure...) asp has something for this. FRom within php you exec() a local application, being the asp pages, optionally cache the result in the Drupal DB and print the result. Less hackish and probably requires some changes to the ASP code.
Does anyone know of any development, module, etc. that would allow us to integrate the ASP data into Drupal?
Any other gotchas I should be looking for?
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