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With some work, I've now enabled OpenID user authentication. It would have been a lot easier if I weren't running Drupal 5 (for which a core OpenID module is not yet ready) or using a shared host (which meant I don't control PHP at the system level).
Steps to get OpenID auth running included:
- installing a local copy of pear in my shared host directory
- installing OpenID Enabled's OpenID PHP library
This process will be a lot easier once a core OpenID module is ready for Drupal 5 and if one were in complete control of one's hosting server. Meanwhile, it wasn't so hard to enable the first credible global authentication system on a cheap shared host with my paltry technical skills ;)
I'll be taking (the much simpler) steps soon to let me use this blog site URL as my OpenID.
I've also enabled Drupal's core aggregator module and used it to expose a few open source feeds (Drupal, Sakai, OSP) on the site. The feeds are exposed in 2 blocks that categorize them (eg, the one Drupal feed in one block, the two Sakai and OSP feeds in another block).
About Drupal Sun
Drupal Sun is an Evolving Web project. It allows you to:
- Do full-text search on all the articles in Drupal Planet (thanks to Apache Solr)
- Facet based on tags, author, or feed
- Flip through articles quickly (with j/k or arrow keys) to find what you're interested in
- View the entire article text inline, or in the context of the site where it was created
See the blog post at Evolving Web