Converting to Drupal

I have a client requirement to use Drupal for an existing website, but the process of converting the entire site to Drupal is currently not do-able in our timescale or budget.

Instead, it's been suggested we use Drupal as our CMS and backend, then query it via some kind of API or SQL calls, and use the raw data returned to build the parts of the main site we need to show the end user. This seems like a really good compromise to me.

Good afternoon everyone,

I hope this is the correct place to ask this, if nto I appologize. I am currently trying to use the moodle Connector https://drupal.org/project/moodle_connector on my new site and have installed the module and its dependencies. The problem is I have no idea how t set it up and not able to find any documentation for it. Coming to Drupal from Joomla.

Can anyone point me in the right direction for help with this?

Many thanks
RevDavid

I have to upgrade a large database from 6.x to 7.x and the cck content type has fields that must to be included beforeinsert.
In drupal 6.x I just used hook_nodeapi like this:

<?php
// hook_nodeapi implementation.
function moc_nodeapi(&$node, $op, $a3 = NULL, $a4 = NULL){
  if($node->type == 'moc'){
    if($op == 'insert'){
      $node->field_moc_clave[0]['value'] = 'New clave'; // Document code
      ....
    }
  }
}
?>

And it works fine but ...

I am reasonably new to Drupal and have a question about converting a site I am building. It is a fictional site that I am building for a college development course.

The site will contain a shopping cart that will be built using the PHP framework CodeIgniter.

At the end of the project I am planning to convert my site into a Drupal theme but I was wondering if it is still possible to use the same shopping cart I create in CodeIgniter as part of the Drupal site?

What I've tried already:

• Import HTML
• Feeds + xPath Parser + Spider
• Migrate

For one reason or another, these aren't really working exactly the way I'd like them to. Here's a breakdown of why, if you're interested.

What the importer has to do:

I currently have a database with the following schema:

Table: Articles
Columns: ID, Title, Author, Content

Table: Authors
Columns: ID, AuthorName

Table: Categories
Columns: ID, CategoryName