Dear experts, what is the difficulty of creating a single signon for both drupal and joomla? and also is it necessary to do so? i believe drupal is a doing a better job in blogs (joomla does not have a good blogging system) and also drupal can be used to build a digging system. i am currently running a joomla website, but i want to use drupal for blogging, digging, video sharing, and question/answer etc.
thanks.
I suppose that you're looking for a way to have 1 login for a site which, behind the screens, consists both of Joomla and of Drupal, with e.g. blogging being done by Drupal and something else by Joomla? Wow... I think something like this is asking for trouble. Drupal and Joomla (at least < v1.5) have a vastly different access control and user access system. In Joomla, you are anonymous, editor and one or two other user groups. In Drupal, you can belong to as many "roles" as the admin allows you to, and access rights can be defined in terms of user roles and, with the help of some plugins, on content type, on taxonomy etc. I really don't see how these two systems could be reconciliated. My advice: don't try. Settle for one system (I'm not even suggesting this should be Drupal :-) ), and search for the best plugins to take care of what you want to offer your users. Making a bridge between Joomla and Drupal would sure be an impressive feat of programming, but I don't think the result would be really what we (or you) are looking for. Endless trouble, for no good reason.
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Dear experts, what is the
Dear experts, what is the difficulty of creating a single signon for both drupal and joomla? and also is it necessary to do so? i believe drupal is a doing a better job in blogs (joomla does not have a good blogging system) and also drupal can be used to build a digging system. i am currently running a joomla website, but i want to use drupal for blogging, digging, video sharing, and question/answer etc.
thanks.
I suppose that you're
I suppose that you're looking for a way to have 1 login for a site which, behind the screens, consists both of Joomla and of Drupal, with e.g. blogging being done by Drupal and something else by Joomla? Wow... I think something like this is asking for trouble. Drupal and Joomla (at least < v1.5) have a vastly different access control and user access system. In Joomla, you are anonymous, editor and one or two other user groups. In Drupal, you can belong to as many "roles" as the admin allows you to, and access rights can be defined in terms of user roles and, with the help of some plugins, on content type, on taxonomy etc. I really don't see how these two systems could be reconciliated. My advice: don't try. Settle for one system (I'm not even suggesting this should be Drupal :-) ), and search for the best plugins to take care of what you want to offer your users. Making a bridge between Joomla and Drupal would sure be an impressive feat of programming, but I don't think the result would be really what we (or you) are looking for. Endless trouble, for no good reason.