There was some conversations recently about an external LDAP authentication interface, itself coded in perl. That could be modified to talk to your CiviCRM via direct database connection, or web-api to your liking.
Here's a copy-pasta of stuff I said about it just a few weeks ago with relation to CAS inplace of Civi --- Here's some neat things about Evergreen and external authentication methods: http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/2008-September/003606.html http://open-ils.org/irc_logs/evergreen /2011-12/%23evergreen.01-Thu-2011.log#line241 https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/885528 The Launchpad bug is a patch to use LDAP, which we could be port/modded to integrate with CAS. --- /djb Edoceo, Inc 206.282.6500 http://edoceo.com On Sep 27, 2012 6:11 PM, "DAemon" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm currently looking at setting up Evergreen as a library system for an > organisation that's already using CiviCRM to manage its members. > > We'd rather not have membership information manually managed in two > different places, and I was wondering whether it would be possible to write > something that pulled the membership information out of the CiviCRM > database on a regular basis and merged it into Evergreen. > > Has anyone done this before? Is there anywhere in particular that I should > be looking to start? > > Thanks everyone, I just can't seem to find the right way to search for > this topic. > > Thanks, > > David Allen >
