Converting to Drupal

Honestly, I've read the forums extensively but I'm still a bit bewildered at how to best incorporate Drupal into a site built around a web app?

Here's a concrete example:

- Imagine I'm writing a simple widget counting app where logged in users can view and modify inventory, etc.
- The widget counter uses a RAD framework like Django (I'll probably end up having to use CakePHP, but I so would love to get a chance to use Django for the web app).
- I use drupal for the community aspect of the site.
- Users will now need a login that works across both Drupal and the widget counter, plus Drupal should ideally be seamlessly displayed on the pages (i.e. the main column is the app and the side column has drupal blocks).

How should this be done?

My ideas so far:

1) Widget app is written to use Drupal's auth scheme, hence logging into Drupal will log you into the widget counter. However, what will I need to add to the widget counter so that it can tell a user is logged in? Is it just to look out for drupal's session/cookie authorization, or will it the widget app have to access the Drupal DB? Also, now I have the problem of displaying Drupal content (navigation, forum headlines, etc) in the web app.

2) I write a wrapper/module to somehow incorporate the widget app inside Drupal. How on earth do I accomadate for the fact that the widget counter has its own MVC? I find it all a bit confusing: do I hack the widget counter to use Drupal's View? I've looked at Drake for CakePHP, but it seems a bit odd to force 404 errors, plus it really doesn't seem scale well. Plus, I really would like to write the widget counter in Python and there doesn't seem any realisitic way to incorporate Django into drupal.

Hi all!

Can anyone please tell me wich tables the forum module in drupal uses.

To my knowledge they are:
-term_data
-term_hierarchy
-comments
-forum ??

I'm converting from webwiz, so I need to know how are forums created. I have preprared a sql script wich imports the (phpbb-like) subforums, but i cant import the forums.
The script drops term_data and term_hierarchy and recreates them, but auto index is still there and not reset, so i think that there is a third or n-th table that holds some info for the forum indexes.

tia, sam

For instance I have some php lib which can automate-create license for software, how can I use it in drupal and how can I send the generated license by email to users. is any possible to combine with the existed E-Commerce module?

Hi,

I currently have two sites that are powered by Drupal, and I would like to integrate them into one site. One is running Drupal 4.5 and the other is running Civic Space. Is there some way that I can import the users, content, etc., from the 4.5 site to the Civic Space site?

Thanks,

Dheeraj

I'm considering upgrading our web site from currentl static HTML pages to Drupal. However we also have a discussion forum with 200+ members using Yabb (messages stored in files not in DB).

Is there a way to import both Yabb messages & users into Drupal?

I've been trying to figure out if there is a simple way to do this, it looks like the Taxonomy module is meant for this, but having a very hard time accomplishing this.

Basically, just want to create a Newsroom page that automatically lists the most recent items posted under that category. For example, if the user goes to "create content > page", can they then select "Newsroom" as a category, and then have a page at /newsroom/ update automatically with the date and title, and also update a block in the right sidebar with the same information?