By bomarmonk on

I'm trying to include a search page from a dedicated catalog server within my Drupal site. Scripts must also be wrapped and the output must be returned into Drupal... sounds tricky.

It seems that Mambo has a "wrapper" that can incorporate external content into the mambo site's pages.

I did find something for another CMS that sounds like it would do exactly what I would want: webgrab-- http://phpcms.de/webgrab/index.en.html.

I am simply wondering if this functionality already exists for Drupal (in some obscure sandbox somewhere), or if porting something like webgrab would be very difficult (I've already played with webgrab by changing the webgrab.php file to webgrab.module and placing it in my modules directory-- obviously more must be fiddled with to get it working-- I think it just tries to run webgrab when I got to my modules directory).

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sepeck commented

The as yet unreleased XStatic module is reported to do this.
http://drupal.org/node/15223
http://drupal.org/node/19909

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bomarmonk commented

But I don't think xstatic will work for content that is on another server. I think the content must actually be placed in a local directory specified in the xstatic settings. In this case, the catalog is on a dedicated server that is totally seperate from the webserver that hosts my drupal site. Hmmm... correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I need another solution for grabbing external content without copying it to the local xsfiles directory.

I've also tried a bit of php code in the node itself, but this only grabs the content of the first page, and doesn't allow for the catalog interface (associated scripts) to be acted upon and to return content to Drupal.