Large Drupal site
<< Go back | Posted: Saturday, May 9 2009 - 21:51
I have just completed one of the biggest Drupal sites in the UK.
It hooks into an external authentication system, bypassing the Drupal login. It uses Drupal hooks to authenticate. The system is basically an Apache module, which proxies through to a single sign-on box. It works nicely, and the Drupal stuff I have written for it will be used on other sites no doubt.
The site is Taxation.co.uk.
There were about 7000 or so articles imported from the old site, which was running on a windows box, with MSSQL. I wrote a bunch of scripts which cleaned up the formatting and imported it into the node tables, CCK, and other related stuff (from what I remember there were about 12 tables).
I developed the whole thing, except for the theme (outsourced), and the authentication filter.
So far it's working quite nicely.