Integrations

Connecting Drupal with your marketing, sales, identity, search and recommendation services.

Drupal Integrations overview

Aim

Integrate your Drupal CMS with other web based systems to make your Drupal site a first class citizen in your digital strategy.

Approach

Utilise the power of Drupal with contributed modules already available and augment these with custom solutions if required.

Outcome

A website which works well with your other systems, ensuring a smooth transition for your users and provision of content and functionality which integrate with your digital assets.

Drupal integrations

Drupal has always been known as an excellent platform for integrations. The contributed module space is broad and deep with thousands of open source developers combining to produce modules which are able to integrate with external systems to extend the capabilities of the CMS. The community is very proactive and the chances are that any new service online will have an integration built for it in Drupal. The modular foundations of Drupal make it a go to platform for those looking to integrate with other systems. Proprietary solutions struggle to keep up with this level of innovation due to the effort involved.

Drupal also provides a solid foundation for building custom functionality when the contrib space fall short. It supports a number of keys sub systems which makes building solutions in a standard way quite straightforward, when you know how. Clients looking to scratch an itch only they have will be able to develop custom modules to integrate as they need.

The team at Morpht

Integrating with external systems is something we enjoy doing at Morpht. Whilst we are focussed on continuously improving the foundations of our toolkits and systems, we do look to extend them where possible. Our team of user experience designs, architects and developers are able to work with clients to design and implement custom integrations.

Insights

Quickchat
Article

Morpht has developed the Quickchat Drupal module to allow for easy integration into Drupal, making it possible for editors to train the chatbot with content from within the CMS.
VantaJS
Article

VantaJS is a sweet little Javascript library which displays dynamic, interactive animated backgrounds. It is a natural fit for an implementation as a Modifier in Drupal.
Food inspection
Case study

The NSW Food Authority engaged Morpht to redevelop and refresh the design of its website and migrate the content from TRIM WCMS to GovCMS.
The Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority
Case study

A Drupal 8 build involving migration of content from a legacy CMS system and developing a technically challenging fail-safe data update functionality from a third party SOAP data feed.
Migrating ASP.Net users to Drupal 7
Article

One of the trickier aspects of any data migration is migrating users and ensuring that the authentication details which worked on the legacy site also continue to work on the new Drupal site. This article shows how it is done for .Net to Drupal 7.