How to join Drupal with Our Site so Only One Login is necessary
AdvisorGarage - January 26, 2007 - 17:08
We are looking at Drupal for our site. Our site requires members to log in to interact with the system. We would ideally not want them to click through to the drupal elements and be required to relogin.
Is this possible? Assuming so but haven't seen any 'How to Integrate with your own website' questions or responses. Is it a nightmare or relatively easy? Where can we get pointers?
Any questions to make this more specific/useful?
Thanks for any guidance people can provide.
Our sites info in case that helps with the question...Thanks!
Andrew
http://www.AdvisorGarage.com
http://AdvisorGarage.wordpress.com
Authentication Modules
Take your pick of how you want to authenticate.
This is what's ready for version 5.0, and but there are TON of them for 4.7. This was a quick search, so I left alot out.
How does the other part of your site authenticate? User names and passwords in a database?
We authenticate with User names and passwords in database
We are considering using a group of folks to help us but they believe there will be a challenge integrating the two systems...
Do you see any problems having http://www.AdvisorGarage.com work with a link through to the community elements of Drupal? I guess anouther question is do we need to use the themes Drupal provides or can we use our existing skin?
Andrew
http://www.AdvisorGarage.com
http://AdvisorGarage.wordpress.com
Your question:
The site is built using Java, JSP, Tomcat, Spring, SpringMVC, Hibernate, and MySQL. The user is authenticated against a table in the db that stores (among other things) a username, password hash, and pasword salt.
Does that help figure out if users will need to login each time they move across or can we integrate and have one login once?
Thanks again!
Andrew
http://www.AdvisorGarage.com
http://AdvisorGarage.wordpress.com
you will have to look into
you will have to look into one of the authentication modules available. In theory you should be able to set it up, however your original code may need to be tweaked.
There are quite a few devlopers who have created these types of modules for this specific use case. Test them out in a test environment to see if one of them will suit your needs.