Content aggregation?

I am a php/mysql novice and I am still learning about how PHP works. A lot of what I have been doing is probably not "Development" in it's true definition. I have been reverse engineering existing code as best as I can to make it suit my needs. I am waiting for my handlers to OK the $ for proper PHP training…

I am at a point where I have 3 different applications working the way I want them to (mostly anyway!). The next step I'd like to do is to make a front end that would display the applications on the same page for an intranet type environment, with the ultimate goal of having another 3 or 4 apps on the same page.

My apps are; a Moodle type installation, a room booking system and an online movie borrowing system, all using MySQL for their database. These are individual applications that do not, at this point, interact. I would like to have a page that would display a summery type view; What videos are being returned today what rooms are booked today and what classes I am enrolled in, that type of thing.

I was thinking about maybe setting up RSS feeds from these 3 apps and displaying them in a nuke or Mambo type CMS that would display RSS feeds on the front page just because I don’t know how else to do it.

Can the content be personalized according to log-in profiles?
Are there any good templates/cookie cutters to do what I am talking about?
Are there any sites I can look at that could provide a good example of this type of thing?
Should I wait for the training and build the whole damn thing myself?
Did I properly explain what I am trying to accomplish?
Is this in the right forum?

Any ideas?

That would depend on if each application supported this. But even if they do, they will probably support it differently, so you might have to make your own login/user system that created the information each script needed in the form in which it needed it, a task that could prove quite difficult.Probably not. Most non-related scripts aren't made to interact with each other. The XML/RSS thing might be one of your best options really.I wouldn't know.I think you will need some knowledge of PHP to get these to work together and to customize a front end that merges the three (or more). We'll help with specific tasks and code if we see you're trying to learn, but we don't do general questions well.I couldn't have answered if you hadn't.Not really. Unless you come up with a specific question related to PHP, I'm moving this to the Scripts forum.

Understood and appreciated.


Roger-Wilco!

Thank you for the informative response.