By Len Porcano on

I have looked around and not found anything on this, but wanted to make sure this has not already been done before we build it. We have a client who has some content in subdomains in a non-drupal CMS, and also has content under a separate subdomain in a Drupal install. We will be adding the ability to add comments to the non Drupal content, and prefer to use the existing Drupal install to manage the comments. This means that the comments would need to be able to be loaded via js for the external sites. Is there a module which does this already that I am just overlooking, or would we need to build this?

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michtoen’s picture

michtoen commented

You can't do that out of the box with drupal.

Drupal has no hook/tag system for virtual or external data, their (internal) hook system for comments and such depends on the node id from their own database.

The only way to attach comments to that pages is, to create for every page
an anchor node in the drupal database. Means a kind of "fake" content entry which
delivers the identifier (the node id from the node content table in the db) which needs
the drupal core to load up the comments.

IMHO one of the biggest weaknesses of drupal. In most other CMS like joomla or Zikula, you
can do it in 5 minutes by adding using template content hooks. Drupal don't have that.

mulderjoe’s picture

mulderjoe commented

I am interested in combining Drupal with another CMS, specifically using the comments module on article pages which live outside of Drupal.

With the release of Drupal 7, is there a way to use the hook system to do this?

Any help/insight appreciated!