By onmountain on

Hi. I have been experimenting with a Mambo site for teh past month. I have it up and running, and am "pretty" happy. However, I still have this nagging feeling that Drupal will be better. However, one thing is that the site is for a chruch youth group and I already have put a mambo "version" of pacman and space invaders on the site. Someone had this as a component - looks like they wrapped an existing program to create these. Anyway, is there anything analogous here in Drupal land? I see the projects page here but they all seem "practical". Is there a ready source of other and sometimes more frivolous content?
Who knows, if you direct me towards something the kids will like, you may have converted a Mambo user to Drupal :-)
PS btw I would advise anyone new to CMS to try Mambo first, just to learn how they work. I noticed that I now understand a lot more of Drupal's menuing (admin) options than I did last month. Mambo is far easier for newbie to get running and looking good fast...

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Savant-1’s picture

Savant-1 commented

there are actually a few flash game addons made for other cms's and bulletin board systems. There are some great public domain flash games out there and the fla's are readily avalable.

It would take someone with a knowledge of flash and php. They would need to alter the games to output a score to tables in the database, and make an arcade module that displayed the games, kept track of scores, maybe even had a block with high scores etc.

Sadly I am a newbie at php and less than a noobie with flash :(

~Savant

joe lombardo’s picture

joe lombardo commented

I guess it depends on your integration needs. You can ftp your flash or java files to the server and create a static page with the necessary html to run a flash or java game within the site framework. See FamilyTimes.com/BrainGames for examples.

Of course, if you want to track high scores you'll need to do some php development.

Best of luck,
- Joe

Joe Lombardo | Drupal Services: Community-Publishing.net | FamilyTimes Online Journals
MikeA-1’s picture

MikeA-1 commented

I am using Mambo now. Been trying it about 3 - 4 weeks. Still in learning phase. I pretty much like it but I am having a hard time with menus and intergration of non-Mambo apps. I want site visitors to go thru Mambo to get to the non-Mambo apps and I'd like them to have only one logon.

QUESTION:

How is Drupal for intregration? Mambo uses a wrapper that makes it look like the visitor is still on Mambo but it is kind of hard to customize if not a PHP/CSS coder. How would Drupal work? Would it be easy to pass the ID on to the non-Dripal app to make it single signon? Can I make the app look likethe visitor is still on Drupal without a lot of coding or problems?

Those are the things that are important to me now. I appreciate any ideas, thoughts, suggestions, opinions, facts.

Thanks.

Mike

tvst’s picture

tvst commented

it seems like what you want can only be accomplished with some coding.

but, first of all, what do you mean by "non-drupal application"? is this something you could put inside a drupal page ("page" as in the node type)? if so, then you're set: everything would look the same as drupal -- since it's actually *in* drupal.

if you're doing this page thing, then you can "pass the ID on to the non-Drupal app" by using $user->uid, but then again i'm not sure what you mean by "non-drupal app".

if this app can't be in a drupal page, then my guess is you'd either have to write a module (which is not hard to do, even for a php noob such as myself) or, even worse, write your own php code to work outside of drupal (maybe in this "app", maybe outside, depending on what it is) which would bind everything together.

MikeA-1’s picture

MikeA-1 commented

It is a real estate applic not part of drupal. I want it to lookl ike it is. I created a menu item to go there but cannot get it to work.

On the ID part I kind of figured I'd have to wade into deeper water with PHP. No time like the present I guess! LOL

Thanks, I'll look deeper. I prefer offline docs so I wish something was available as it may take me a while. LOL

Thanks for the info.

Mike

tvst’s picture

tvst commented

i was just wondering whether you knew what i meant before. here's a more detailed explanation:

go to admin/modules and make sure you have enabled the "page" module.

go to node/add/page and enter your php code there (with the usual <?php> tags where needed). this php code should hook into your real estate application -- this is the hardest part, but the complexity depends on your what exactly this real estate application is.

this will produce a drupal page that has you real estate app where the content usually goes.

MikeA-1’s picture

MikeA-1 commented

The process you described worked. I don't understand it, but it worked! LOL Thabks very much.

I did not know that you could put commands like that in the address area and do things. I guess I have a lot to learn!

Again, thanks.

Mike

javanaut’s picture

javanaut commented

I've considered migrating this refrigerator magnet poetry app into Drupal. One of the cool thing about word-based games is that you can incorporate relavent terms, such as buddy lists, interests or other profile data. The site mentioned above pulls friend and interest lists from livejournal.com. It relies heavily upon DHTML, and would not easily fit into the Drupal framework, but I think it could be neat. If there were enough interest, I could see porting this into a Drupal module. A Flash version would probably be more appropriate.