DrupalconBoston2008-UsingDrupalWithExternalResources movies ourmedia Presenters: Neil Drumm Ken Rickard Matt Cheney Track: site building Session Description: SESSION OVERVIEW Need to integrate Drupal with data from a legacy system? Want to migrate 100,000 articles into Drupal without batch imports? Trying to display search results from a 10,000,000 part catalog warehoused in Oracle? This session will cover mechanisms for integrating external data into your Drupal-poweed site. There will be live demonstrations of working code, and we will walk through some code examples. TRACK site building AGENDA * Drupal is a platform, and includes tools for managing external data. ** caching to reduce network latency ** drupalhttprequest() to fetch data ** drupal_execute() to process forms programatically * Using Drupal menu callbacks with structured data sources. * Using Drupal with external APIs and RESTful interfaces. * Using Drupal with multiple database connections. * Using Yahoo! data on your Drupal site. * MAPLight modules ** Job queue module ** Import manager module ** Running imports with drupal.sh * Data Scraping and Auditing Example * Data Enrichment Example GOALS This session should help you plan to migrate or integrate external data sources with your Drupal site. RESOURCES This is a developer discussion that assumes familiarity with PHP and SQL. It does not assume prior Drupal experience. You can get a head start by looking at the code samples at http://therickards.com/api/DrupalCON. drupalcon; drupalconboston2008; drupal 2008-02-29 14:07:35 2008-02-29 14:05:19 mr.scales@gmail.com DrupalCon2008 2008-03-07 15:20:42 sound color 2008-06-23 12:23:29 DrupalCon2008