By fumbling on

I'm new to the forum so please forgive me if I'm posting this in the wrong place. We have an extranet site for our customers built in Plone that has a great deal of functionality and documentation, but the look and feel and the community features are lacking, so we're looking at Drupal. We've already built two of our external sites in Drupal 5.6, including a number of custom-built community features, and we'd like to re-purpose some of that functionality in the Plone-based extranet. Because there is so much functionality and documentation in the Plone-based site, we're wary of trying to redo the whole site in Drupal, but we would like to add a few Drupal areas and have them still work well with the Plone-based based areas.

So the gist of the issue is how Plone and Drupal pages can work together in terms of passing usernames/permissions, etc, as well as sharing a common look and feel. Is there any documentation or advice on this? Thanks for any help on this front. I find a lot of comparisons between Plone and Drupal online, but haven't found anything about the two working together yet.

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r0ver commented

Hello there

What a pitty you want to leave Plone, as a Plone community member it would be great if you send us more feedback. Answering what you're asking, there are a product in Plone called deliverance that let you integrate Plone look and feel with other technologies such as PHP. You can read more about deliverance here: http://www.openplans.org/projects/deliverance. OpenPlans is using deliverance to integrate Plone and WordPress look and feel, for example, this is Plone:
http://www.openplans.org/projects/opencore/project-home
this is wordpress:
http://www.openplans.org/projects/opencore/blog/

There's a video showing deliverance: http://plone.tv/media/2125422709

Re the authentication, they developed a plugin and probably you could reuse part of it (you can download openplans code without problems). I suggest you contact the openplans people to know more about it, you can reach them in #openplans at irc.freenode.net.

Kind Regards
r.

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fumbling commented

Thanks for your reply. We'll check out deliverance. At the present time, the plan isn't so much to leave Plone, but to find out more about how Plone pages and Drupal pages can work together, each doing what they do best. When researching Plone, we couldn't find much in the way of examples of Plone-based robust-community/social-networking features, which is why we considered Drupal for those pages. Do you have examples of Plone-based communities or social networks that go beyond simple forums, such as robust profile pages, blogs, any social networking, etc? If so, that would be great to see to get another point of reference about what Plone can do. And since front-end custom-work in Plone is done in Python (right?), maybe any examples of what Python can do in social networking (front-end stuff, as opposed to back-end stuff, as I do hear YouTube's back-end is largely in Python).

Also, do you have any examples of Plone and Drupal specifically working together?

Thanks again for your help!