Question about Drupal integration

Hi, there,

What does the Drupal integration plug actually do?

The reason I ask is that I don't have a Drupal site that uses lots of it's membership features that allow a user to create content. In fact, I don't allow anyone but me to create the content.

Is it better, then, to just use Amember is some sort of standalone way?

I'm certainly not opposed to buying it, but I want to make things as efficient as possible.

(I'll also be uisng 1shoppingcart if that makes any difference.)

Thanks a lot,

- Paul

Thanks, Alex.

I use Drupal for a static site right now, meaning one that doesn't require membership, so I'm pretty flexible on how to implement Amember with Drupal. Should I let amember handle most of it, or do I need to create the whole membership scheme in Drupal and amember will just act more invisibly with Drupal managing it?

Thanks so much again,

- Paul

Thanks for your posts, Alexander.
I have an html site that uses amember for a subscription publication, have been using it for several years so I have an amember database that has lots of info. I am now going to create a drupal site to replace the html site. I want to continue with amember. Can I keep amember's login as it is or would it be best to have users log in through drupal? And how about bringing over my database--any suggestions on how to do that? I don't know PHP and am fairly new to drupal. I'm working my way through my third drupal book now.

There is a web-based software our organization is interest to buy. However, this web-based software will work only with Drupal.

Forgive me my ignorance, can I use Drupal as a "portal" -- aMember as a membership database, one web-based software being plugin using Drupal, maybe another software (e.g. email) using aMember plugin (I'm seriously thinking about using aMail).

My only main concern there will many hooks -- some with aMember and some with Drupal, and this will create problem down the road.

Thank you.

Thanks, Alexander--I spent the whole weekend on this project and I got everything configured. I didn't realize that Rebuild DB would import active users into Drupal--that's helpful to know. When they import, does drupal encode the password with the MD5 function? I used a SQL insert function to add my amember records to the user and user_roles tables in Drupal but that didn't encode the passwords so they didn't work. I did find a SQL update function that did it. I was just testing and so only worked with a few dozen of my records--the rebuild function will make the final import much easier. I also want to import expired records because if an expired user tries to log into drupal, I set it to tell them that they are expired and offer a renewal. I suppose I'll have to do those with my insert command. For anyone else out there doing this, just be careful with the MD5 password encoding in Drupal--don't run the update unless every password in the table is in ascii--because if some are encoded already and you run the update, it will re-encode the encoding and then your passwords won't work.

Thanks, Alexander.
So if I import my expired list and update their passwords to encrypt them, and then run rebuild DB it will add the actives and not affect the expires that are already in the database?

Also, does rebuild DB do anything else that I should be aware of?
thank you