Hello everybody !
I'm working on a project for a customer of mine and I've some questions about Drupal.
I would like to know if Drupal can easily be integrated to a custom engine. Indeed, I'd like to use Drupal as a simple interface for creating users, profiles, projects and to provide interaction between users just like messengering, Q&A block, comments, etc. So Drupal will power the static and dynamic webpages and will collect data. There will be a quite huge data processing provided by a third part application that will return some values I'd like to integrate to the website.
I think I'm not really clear but I'll try to make myself clearer. The usual scheme will be about the following :
- User registration & data collection (Drupal)
- Data processing (third part application)
- Print of some values returned by the third part application on the website (Drupal)
I know it might be clearer if I could give you more details about the kinds of informations we'll use, but this project is quite confidential and I'm not allowed to tell you more about it.
My first question is to know whether Drupal could be used for this, and my second question is to know how it could be used for this. Should I modify the core of Drupal ? Should I develop a module that allows Drupal interaction with the third part application ?