Posted by root_of_roots on July 30, 2008 at 4:09pm
Hello,
I have currently been searching for a module that integrates Google Apps with Drupal.
Doing research I have found a lot of projects, but they do not seem to be continued anymore.
Does anyone know how I can integrate Google Apps with Drupal?
Here one that looks like exactly what I need, but I don't see anything there:
http://drupal.org/node/108906
This guy was going to work on it, but looks like he has stopped - and even stopped updating his website...
http://www.techsanctuary.com/drupal-google-apps-integration
Any direction in this would be greatly appreciated.
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In a world with no fences or walls, who needs Gates or
It would be more appealing
It would be more appealing if Facebook apps could be included OR better still if Drupal apps can be included.
what are those
What are Facebook Apps and Drupal Apps?
Some people say that when you play a Windows Vista installation CD backwards, you hear demon voices calling you to worship Satan. But that nothing, if you play it forward it installs Windows Vista!
In a world with no fences or walls, who needs Gates or
What would you be using google apps for?
Integration will depend on the functionality of the google app. If you want to offload all the drupal processing to Google, then you would have to rewrite the whole code in python (which is what google apps are written in).
If you offloading certain functionality you would need to expose your own API for that purpose.
I ran across this posting,
I ran across this posting, and too would like to use Google Apps with Drupal.
I would like to integrate the Apps like you can in Google Sites.
Embed the Google Apps Calendar or Presentations, etc.
I think this would be a good mix for Drupal.
My 5 cents!
Mike
Mike
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I use google spreadsheets to
I use google spreadsheets to back up some custom drupal tables, and for automating some work in drupal.
I use the Zend framework, which as an almost complete library of functionality to interface with google. It's not easy, but once you get the hang of it, you can do tons of stuff.
BTW using google spreadsheets as a backup is very slow, each record is a couple of queries to google.
and takes about 1-2 seconds for each record. On large sites this can be counterintuitive.
If Zend would support Batch Updates to google this problem would go away.
Drupal Applications need a start
I think this is not about spreadsheets or such things, Apps or applications are small or various sized tools, playful or useful stuffs that registered users of a site, usually a social network site, can add to their profile pages. Think of adding this in Advanced Profile Page in Druapl as provided by the APK kit.
To find what these are : See a sample Facebook list at http://www.facebook.com/apps/ or a sample Bebo list at http://www.bebo.com/c/apps/browse_apps or a sample Orkut list at http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#AppDirectory.aspx
This is one area where Drupal is seriously lagging as there is no Application type modules of Drupal's own. There are certain stuffs like Chess module and two or three different games module which can be a start of the Drupal Apps - Drupals very own apps. The problem is how to integrate these easily in Profile Interfaces like APK.
We now have Modules, Themes, Translations etc BUT no Applications - I am not sure where to submit this request and how quickly ( if at all ) this will be incorporated in Drupal. All social networking sites made with Drupal thus lacks in Applications.
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You can submit feature requests against the Drupal project but, honestly, a request like this would just sit there or get won't fix'd. Unless it's fairly minor and someone feels like helping out, nothing gets added to Drupal without the person wanting it either doing it or paying for it.
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I also think so :) I was just trying to answer root of roots above.
However with APK there is actually very wonderful possibilty of adding App like things ( though may not be true Apps ) and this has been done. Hoping there will be some posts on this by Jan.
Yeah ... the way this guy
Yeah ... the way this guy described it...
http://www.techsanctuary.com/drupal-google-apps-integration
Sounds perfect! Doesn't get in the way of a pure drupal setup but integrates the two nicely.
I figure since google apps are so nice and they dont have ads ... what more could you ask for? Sure drupal can natively do all the things google apps can do, with a combination of contrib/custom modules. But it remains that googles stuff is ready to go real quick and enables some "possibly for some" unobtainable or undesirable features for their server environment.
Im going to sync my google calendars to my organic groups and users calendars. To me thats the most important which i think will be fairly easy ... still I cant help but wonder what a full integration would look like and how interesting that could be. To have Gmail, gCalendar & gDoc's integration could be quite good for drupal. Certainly folks on shared servers would greatly benefit from it performance wise. It would provide more ease to setup their site/s for a fuller out of the box deployment without adding/configuring a lot of modules.
I'm not on a shared or in desperate need of this, but am quite interested in this concept, and look forward to seeing the conversation continue. Has anyone made any headway in that direction?
I basically want our users to
I basically want our users to be able to login with their google apps account on our drupal site and when pass gets changed in Apps it also gets changed in drupal thats it..... i hope someone can really work something out for this.