A while ago we were charged with the task of using drupal with SugarCRM. Unlike CiviCRM, these 2 systems have never been designed to work together nicely. Rather than hack into core code to share a user table we decided to take advantage of the existing SOAP functionality that SugarCRM affords us.

Unfortunately we had to alter about 2 lines of SugarCRM's core code to get this to work. Also I don't think the code is as secure as we would like it. There is a point at which the password is sent (although encrypted) via a GET request. This would not be our preferred choice.

I use a lot of open source software for day-to-day jobs and in the same spirit as the software, I'd like to share some of my knowledge with the community.

So far I'll be covering drupal, sugarCRM and civiCRM among others. I seem to write hundreds of modules a year. Some for a specific purpose which would probably not help much but others extend the standard software in some pretty weird and wonderful ways.

If there's something specific that anyone needs, just shout and I'll have a look in the module library (see: collection of messy folders in hundreds of project files).