Drupal to Elgg - integration or migration?
Hi
I'm getting to grips with Elgg - really like what I've seen so far! Just looking for some advice...
I currently run a popular Drupal site, which is gradually evolving from a content resource to a networking/community site.
Now Drupal does the content management really well, of course, but the community/group aspects rely on a whole bunch of plugins which don't necessarily integrate very well. I think Elgg might do this better, as a dedicated networking platform.
Migration from Drupal to Elgg seems quite doable - I read some interesting stuff here
But I'm a bit worried about losing all the extra things that Drupal does offer - content management, html newsletters, shopping cart, etc. So perhaps an integration of Elgg+Drupal with a single login...?
The Packt 'Elgg Social Networking' book states that Elgg can be integrated with Drupal, but I've seen no plugin or bridge for this. Now I reckon the author was referring to the OpenAcademic integration project... but that looks pretty dead to me. Seems to have evolved into more of a paid service thingy.
Does anyone have similar experience or comments on this? Anything much appreciated!
Thanks, Jason
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You must log in to post replies.We're looking into developing this sort of thing. We've got our users in Drupal and would like to create an elgg plugin to handle authentication against drupal, and then use elgg as the social network part of our web. Later on it might be interesting to sync or pull data between the 'profile' in drupal and the 'profile' in elgg, but for starters we're just looking to manage our users in one space.
I didn't find any project doing just that earlier, so if there's interest maybe we could create a group for it?
i am interested in intregration... is anyone woking the probleM??
I think that the Vanilla integration plugin here:
http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/kevin/read/121445/vanilla-forum-integration
has solved most of the problems involved in integrating Elgg with another application. Someone would need to fund a similar plugin (probably with a bit more functionality) for Drupal. It would probably take about a week to code.
any news?
I thinkit is interesting to start whit integrating created pages, calendars, forums into drupal content
We use elgg for meeting space in ower association for planning meetings and holding everybody uptodate, follow up for workgroups,...
Severaldays ago I was started to itegrate the event_calendar into my drupalsite.
The code I used, you can find on http://itlounge.be/elgg/pg/groups/3/drupal-to-elgg-integration/
As the ELGG interface is far more interesting than Drupal, I like to integrate Drupal into ELGG - so minimum updating of users in one place, will automize the update in the other. Is this easy or difficult*?
Best,
Phillip
* It concerns the two sites:
The ELGG communication frontend at: http://192.38.114.240/elgg/ and
The Drupal user backend at: http://editexpertnet.org/ (separate MySQL-'bases').
What I need is not just Single Sign On, but somehow MySQL syncronizing. The server is a LAMP Ubuntu 10.04Lts server with both the ELGG v.1.7.5 and the Drupal 6.15 sites.
It is here I like such integration of Drupal into ELGG.