I'm building in Perl the cgi form elements of a website which will likely be hosted as part of a drupal installation. We will need a user authentication system to control access to all functions (except the generate_sample and create_new_account features). Normally I use CGI::Session::Auth::DBI for authentication / authorization functions, and perhaps I ought to do so again. But I'm guessing that we might build some website functions directly in drupal and that a unified login would make sense: same userID's and passwords, even the same sessions, so that clients don't have to login multiple times to use all the features of the site.

Does anyone here have any experience with such an integration; any advise about how this might best be done?

All ideas are appreciated.

-- Hugh

UPDATE:

I posted a note on the drupal site linked by the anonymous monk below. I also sent private messages to those who had previously posted to that thread. I'm now thinking along the lines of writing and publishing a couple of new modules to be called, tentatively, CGI::Session::Auth::DBI::MyDrupal and CGI::Session::Auth::DBI::PgDrupal, which would integrate with drupal's existing user/ group/ session management schema and API, giving a co-existing perl script access to an integrated login with its hosting drupal site. If anyone here has a similiar itch to scratch, I would certainly appreciate your collaboration on this project. -- HE

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In reply to Integrating Perl cgi forms with Drupal site, any advise on unified login issue? by hesco

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