Joomla Bridge

patm · I want to know more... Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 2

Is there any plans on creating a bridge so Web2project can be pulled into other popular CRMs such as Joomla. I operate a community website that supports nonprofits in St. Louis. I am trying to find a replacement for SugarCRM because I need more of a project manager vice customer relations like CRM. I would like to incorporate Web2Project into my site but do not have the time to hack through the source to find a way to create a seamless login or bridge. All I need is name of the Sessions and or key's that Web2Project is looking for so I can inject them through a require once seamlessloogin.php page. I have used this process on several occasions and it has worked. Would appreciate any help on creating a seamless login or bridge for Joomla 1.5
Thanxs

misjka · I am in love now! Joined: 04 Dec 2009 Posts: 14

I ditto you request, patm, since I'm about to build a site for a EU research project with Joomla and web2Project Smile

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Hm, could perhaps http://www.jfusion.org become an option for w2P as well?!

caseydk

The best way to approach this one is by looking at the SQLAuthenticator class (./classes/authenticator.class.php) and based your JoomlaAuthenticator on the PostNukeAuthenticator.

Most likely you can have a Joomla/web2project upgrade-safe version with a few dozen lines of code.

ChuckyT

We are planning to build somewhat of a bridge between Joomla and w2P for our customer portal, but my initial thought was to create more of a separate app that would just piggy-back on the Joomla authentication and read task info from w2P data based on very locked down queries. This would help to ensure someone doesn't goof up the w2P permissions and I end up with Client A seeing Client B's stuff (very bad). But, if my team can create an actual bridge between Joomla and w2P while convincing me I'll never have to explain why someone's permissions got crossed up, I'd be happy to make it available. We'll be discussing implementation details on this one in about two weeks.

caseydk

If you build a separate application to query w2p's database while bypassing the system permissions, I'd give you a near-100% chance of displaying someone else's information.

It's not that I think your code sucks or you're dumb.. I just believe the permissions system is quite complex and hard to replicate and/or simplify much at this time. Alternatively, if you use the existing (and steadily improving) w2p API, all the permissions are applied for you...

I've begun sketching out a hook_block and hook_feed action for each of the core modules which might be a good fit for this sort of thing. What sorts of questions would you want to answer for those users?

ChuckyT

caseydk

If you have the task_id, that's a good start as you can call a $task->loadFull() to do the bulk of the lifting. Unfortunately, that requires a $AppUI object to pass into it so that the permissions are applied correctly.

To keep things even more interesting, if you use web2project to render it, you'll have to be careful as there are links to the Project, Company, and Users already on that screen.

If you run into problems, post them here as always. Smile