Displaying data from one Drupal site on another
The situation was the following:
- Site A is used by companies to enter job descriptions.
- Several Sites B want to access these job descriptions to offer a job board for applicants.
Constraints:
- solution has to be dynamic, e.g. a job entered on Site A has to be online on Site B instantly.
- All sites are on the same server, so they can access the local MySQL database of Drupal.
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Creating module that accesses other website's database
A Drupal module could be created that is able to access another website's database and display the data.
Drupal even provides a way to use its database abstraction layer. In the settings.php an additional $db_url has to be defined as described here: http://drupal.org/node/18429
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Providing data using Views-Module, creating module to access it.
There exists a Drupal-Module called Views. It is available for Drupal 5 through 7. It is able to output a site's data in XML (or RSS) format. That way a machine-readable format of the first site's data can be created.
For the other site a Drupal Module could be created that reads the XML file and formats it for output the way desired.
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