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CakePHP and Drupal 6 should talk to each other, but how?

I have a CakePHP application that should take data from Drupal (6). In particular, there is one custom content type and one web form that must be shared using CakePHP, so when a new node is added for this type of content or the submitted web form, Cake knows about it. I'm not sure how to do this, I came up with two approaches:

  • Availability of an alternative data source for the considered models and reading directly from the Drupal database. However, Drupal tables are in Drupally format, and I would rather not write a lot of $ this-> Model-> find () s for - it will be a little painful. I don’t quite understand where Drupal is.
  • Writing code in Drupal to save data in a different format in the CakePHP database. I don't know how easy it will be - I am more prepared for success with Cake than with Drupal. I think I would use hook_form_alter and add a function to the $ form [#submit] array?

Does anyone have any advice which of these two would be better, or if there is another option? I am inclined to the second idea.

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I would create a web services API in Drupal and periodically run a batch job in Cake that gets into the API for new data. Try this module: http://drupal.org/project/services

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