Hello, I have been searching for some tips and ideas how to integrate oscommerce and Drupal. Unfortunately, nothing useful has come up.
I am currently exploring how to integrate both systems in a way such that oscommerce is the front end (money making part) and drupal handles content generation for articles and user generated content.
Here are the issues I am facing:
The Setup:
1.- I need to add Drupal to an existing matured oscommerse site to add blogging and article creation functionality.
2.- The current feature set for my oscommerce site is too extensive to be replaced. There are too many mods and custom scripts to replace if I would start with some other ecommerce module designed for drupal.
Here are the challenges:
1.- Synchronize the user login for both oscommerce and drupal. A user must be able to log in once on either the oscommerce side or the drupal side. This implies that the user id and password must be handled by one or both systems.
2.- Both drupal and oscommerce must be on same domain and not on a separate subdomains. I would put drupal in a sub directory, but leave oscommerce on the root directory.
3.- Both Drupal and oscommerce must share the sessions and cookie data to prevent any cart items from being dropped.
4.- All mods must be made to the oscommerce code to protect the modularity of drupal. Or perhaps create a drupal module to handle the visitor login data and verify it on the user’s tables for the oscommerce and drupal.
5.- No, can not use the other ecommerce modules as they do not have all the ecommerce/inventory management/order processing/merchandizing features.
6.- Must be able to use URL rewrite on both systems for seo purposes.
Has anyone tried this? Any comments, suggestions are greatly appreciated.
