[development] Can I use an external user DB instead of the original user table in drupal DB?

Huisi Wang huisiwang at gmail.com
Sat Jun 16 02:23:03 UTC 2007


2007/6/16, Earnie Boyd <earnie at users.sourceforge.net>:
>
> > Not necessarily, I am working on a site with an integrated CRM
> > (stores contacts as a custom CCK type) and the API doesn't seem to be
> >  able to do what I need, which is: Look up uid for a given node or
> > form based on the ability to enter the contact name instead of the
> > username, such as the authored by field on a new node.
> >
>
> Have you looked at http://drupal.org/project/openid for a possible solution?
>
> Earnie
>

Thank you. I will try these methods you mentioned. If the modules can
solve my problem, it's the best way. Or I have to develop something
myself.


Huisi


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