Hi! A new site I'm working on will be using Drupal as its primary infrastructure. However, the existing site has a number of cgi scripts that wont immediately be ported to Drupal. Is there some generic way of intergrating a CGI script so that it interacts with the "content" portion of a Drupal theme while preserving the rest of the look & feel?

Radi

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sangamreddi’s picture

Yes it's possible, but you have do your own coding to integrate.
only few modules are avilable like gallery,phpbb,vbulletin.
U can write your own module, it's pretty easy if u're a php programmer.

Sunny
www.gleez.com

NaSPA1’s picture

Thanks for your response Sunny. If I am understand you correctly what you're really saying is the preferred way to integrate a 3rd party (non-php) application - is to port it to PHP?

I was hoping there would be some way to do this without having to rewrite/port the application. Even if it means using some php code as the interface...

Radi Shourbaji
http://radi-shourbaji.profconnect.org

Anonymous’s picture

The only way, other than rewriting parts of the application to work within drupal, is to create a page that contains an iFrame which then loads other external pages. The page would have to pass on post and get parameters as well. The down side to this method is that being a iFrame, you'll end up with scroll bars inside the drupal page.