Is Drake for Drupal 6 planed?

I am getting older now and waiting for Drake for Drupal 6 to arrive. But Whennnnnnnnnnnnnnn?

I have a project that requires this (for a Drupal 6 site), so in the next month or so, I'll be working on upgrading this module. It looks like it's abandoned - the last commit was 2 years ago. If anyone else is currently working on this, please speak up!

No, but rock on!

I want to write a "mega-module" and was looking for cakephp or symfony to write it in. I could totally help out on this.

Mike

We're currently launching a project that would also use cakephp and drupal. Is there any progress in the porting to 6 already?

Thanks,

Wouter

Pearlbear,

I hope you have some luck with this. I never really took a look at it to see how complicated the module is. Drake was something I was going to "get back to sometime" and now that I actually have a working Cake application, I went back to look only to find that it appeared to be abandoned.

I am going to bring up a new Drupal 6 server with the intent to migrate off of our existing Drupal 5 system late in 2009. Wish I was smart enough to help on the module itself, but I will have a Drupal 6 system for several months with no users, so testing maybe?

Jim

This is a newbie question, so feel free to flame me ;) But why is the integration between a framework like CakePHP and drupal useful? Why not use one or the other? Now, I know a fair bit about drupal, but haven't used a php framework before - doesn't the performance hit of running a framework inside drupal make it not worth it?

@geste - I'll definitely take you up on the testing. I've been a bit delayed, but I will be digging in when I get back from vacation in a week.

@Roger - no flames here. Basically, my use case is that we have a very complex client-tracking database written in cake, and users of a members-only site in drupal who I want to be able to interact with that database without a second login. I also want to pull user-specific data (pending activities, etc.) from that cake database into drupal blocks.

@pearlbear thanks - that's a specific use-case which shows why this integration is useful :)

So a little news on progress and planning for drake:

1) I've done some initial work to port the module to Drupal 6 - but there are a number of snags still.

2) My first goal will be to simply recreate the functionality of the 5.x-1.x version in 6.x. When that happens, I'll figure out how to release the dev snapshot here. (I'm a newbie to how to contribute to drupal projects, or how to assume responsibility for a project, so any guidance in that realm would be especially useful. I've tried to contact the current maintainer, and have failed, so I'm assuming the project is abandoned.)

3) My project includes a need for single sign on, so I'll be adding that to this module for sure.

4) Any other suggestions on how to increase the usefulness of this module (besides dealing with current issues in the queue) are welcome.

any news?

The module was pretty much a disaster. There is a *lot* of work to do (and I am a relatively new module developer). But I'm still slogging away, since this project I am doing requires it. I'll keep everyone posted.

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Hey there... first day delving into Drupal... I've been using cake for a while now, but I'm far from an expert. But my projects are committed to cake at this point.

I was excited to hear about Drake, but disappointed to see its not available for Drupal 6.

I would be willing to help where I can to try and develop it, but given I know so little about drupal I'm not sure what I can do.

That said, as a drupal newbie, should I downgrade to drupal 5 so I can configure drake? What are the major drawbacks to that?

Thanks

I too am interested in see thing module ported to D6, unfortunately I have no experience with CakePHP,.... YET.