The adlibapi is a new module which enables Drupal to connect to museum database software 'adlib' by adlibsoft.
The basic module provides api functions, as well as connection settings for several databases (using ctools)
Based on the api module, other modules can perform different tasks:
- adlibapi_feeds: Feeds integration allows to synchronize the adlib data to Drupal nodes with cck fields
- adlibapi_image: Allows to retrieve images from the adlib image server at node load.
The strength of the module lies in the use of other modules to perform specialized tasks.
Configuration of the databases is achieved by the ctools export ui, so database settings can be exported.
Synchronization is done by the feeds module, which is an excelent import tool.
The basic communication with the adlib server is handled by specialised classes which are general php classes and could be used in any PHP project.
The classes are provided and should be put in the library.