By bobisguilty on

I'm very new to Drupal and I finally got it installed, THEN I started asking if it was really what I needed (I was told it was by someone who's used it once, but I wanted to make sure). I went through the cookbook for beginners and other documentation, but didn't really see anything pertaining to my query directly. I have a website that I want to setup a member's area with a login, I understand that I can setup users in Drupal and restrict their access to certain things. I made the website outside of Drupal and not sure if I can set it all up inside Drupal how I want it (how it looks now) so my question is: Can I use Drupal, as sort of a man in the middle, when users login to go from my site, login and authenticate through Drupal, and then have access to the member's area on the website outside of Drupal? Or, would it be easier to just have the member's area setup inside Drupal so they login through Drupal and stay in the restricted area? If there's a tutorial on how to do this, I would LOVE it, I haven't been able to find one that addresses this directly. Thank you.

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WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

I honestly can't recommend this type of 'integration' -- drupal can do basically any type of site. imo your time would be much better spent just converting the site to drupal.

rick_deputy’s picture

rick_deputy commented

It is possible but why would you want to do that? Can you give more details?

Rick

bobisguilty’s picture

bobisguilty commented

I'm lazy (but it looks like I'll have to get over that) and I already have all my html files and stuff for the site in order and I don't really have the time it would take to create an Access database with all the usernames and passwords and maintain it myself. I was told that Drupal could do all that and let me have a member login area, I figured I could just slip Drupal somewhere between the public portion of the site and the private portion to authenticate users and grant them access to certain materials.

For the first response, I use Flash heavily and I didn't know if I would be able to still have all my Flash animation and stuff if I used Drupal to set the site up.