This is a test sub profile for NodeStream that contains lots of example data. It is ideal for trying NodeStream out and for working with NodeStream development.
Ning is a social networking platform that allows anyone to create its own social network. At the end of 2010, Ning has published APIs permitting network owners to use, from a third party application, the functionalities of its network. Ning Integration project is a solution to exploit these features from a Drupal site.
The Project
This project currently includes the following modules:
ningauth: the ningauth module allows a Drupal-site administrator to permits the delegation of authentication to one or several Ning network(s). Once properly configured, this module allows a user to authenticate on the Drupal-site with the username and password that she/he usually use on a Ning network.
The authentication phase is carried out under two scenarios left to free choice of the Drupal administrator:
Exclusive mode: users are authenticated only on configured Ning networks.
Mixed mode: the module first tries to authenticate the user on the user base of the Drupal-site. If it fails, it then tries to authenticate on configured Ning networks. A (configurable) procedure for resolving "users conflicts" is executed if a user with the same name is present in the user base of the Drupal-site and in the Ning network.