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
how could I get Drupal to respond to these requests? I'd like Drupal "pages" to be wrapped around these URL, with all the commenting features etc.
I can insert my own "page" to pull out data/DB queries using a template.
But I need unique Drupal nodes for each of these pages, so the comments stick to each page.
Any thoughts/pointers on how to achieve this? Is this a flexinode project?
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/dc
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.
Drupal is not a "script" downloaded from hotscripts.com or so. It is a full features self-enclosed CMS. Meaning, it is not some chunks of PHP you can include here or there, but its a complete suit that needs to be installed as a whole.
Drupal, however, servers very well as development platform. You could build your custom application on top of the codebase of Drupal, quite easily. In your case you then would build an application that handles the mentioned URLs and "pipes" them on to either your existing application, or to drupal.
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.
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
You could much easier do a rewrite with mod_rewrite, and rewrite site.com?tag=lookupWord into search/node/lookupWord. Drupal will perform a search.
how could I get Drupal to respond to these requests? I'd like Drupal "pages" to be wrapped around these URL, with all the commenting features etc. I can insert my own "page" to pull out data/DB queries using a template.
Like said above: a my_application.module, with a new node type called my_node (off course give them better names), that calls a database on one of drupals many API calls should do.
But I need unique Drupal nodes for each of these pages, so the comments stick to each page.
Any thoughts/pointers on how to achieve this? Is this a flexinode project?
Regards, Bèr
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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