Login Connectors -- Common Task
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:50 am
I routinely get asked to do this, or see projects for this listed on the web. Someone has something like vBulletin, and they want to connect it to MediaWiki so that they share the same login. Or connect PunBB with a login from some homegrown CMS, or WordPress, or Drupal.
Sure, I make cash by having to figure this out, and if it were just a snap-in, I probably wouldn't get the gigs. It's just that it seems to me that all these groups should shoot for a common API for logins and registrations so that these could be connected a little easier. I mean, I don't want snap-ins already built for me, but I do want to look up the API, I figure it out very easily from anything to anything (as long as the package was based solely on PHP), and I build it in far less time and hope to keep more cash.
What's your opinion on this?
Sure, I make cash by having to figure this out, and if it were just a snap-in, I probably wouldn't get the gigs. It's just that it seems to me that all these groups should shoot for a common API for logins and registrations so that these could be connected a little easier. I mean, I don't want snap-ins already built for me, but I do want to look up the API, I figure it out very easily from anything to anything (as long as the package was based solely on PHP), and I build it in far less time and hope to keep more cash.
What's your opinion on this?