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So would I, but I haven't found any way that it will work. I investigated other problems that were integrating with PGV and *all* of them do it in an iframe. There are too many problems to list, but basically PGV is designed as a stand-alone program that will only work if called from within its own directory, plus it starts its own session, which interferes with the session that Drupal started, etc etc. I tried and tried to find a way and finally gave up.

If someone finds a way it will work I'll gladly work it in, but I can't spend any more time trying to find it myself, at least in the near future.

Oops, I may have misunderstood your request. The embedded version must be in an iframe, but maybe you mean you want a link to open it in its own window outside the iframe? That would be easy enough.

That xoops module is actually done by embedding the entire PGV program inside the xoops module, then rewriting a number of PGV programs. In other words, it is a fork of PGV that is heavily modified and that would need to be maintained to be sure it stays in synch with the original PGV program. There are a number of reasons why this method won't work for a Drupal module:

1) Drupal's policy is not to include external programs in Drupal's cvs system, so we can't just pick up the PGV program and drop it in the Drupal project in the first place.

2) Even if Drupal policy allowed this, the PGV program changes frequently, and and to maintain this fork, someone would have to monitor all those changes and be sure to add them to the code in the Drupal module, not something I have the time or interest to do.

It illustrates what I said earlier -- there really is no way to embed this except by using an iframe (which allows the original code to function as it normally does without hacking it)

And I was just letting you know that wasn't going to work :-)

Anyway, your point about an option to link to the external application instead of embedding it is valid. I made some changes and just committed them. I don't have the instructions updated yet, but go to the phpgedview settings page in Drupal and where it asks for the embedded path, make that option blank. If it is blank, no embedded paths will be created and instead you will see a menu item that links to the external program. The external link should give the search engines a way to search through your files and the dual login should still work the same if you have mapped your users together.

I know there may still be other login issues that need to be reviewed, but that's another issue.