How to integrate a PHP app with RoR app?

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I suppose there would be a way to implement a "single sign-on" system for your RoR and PHP applications.

As far as sharing session variables, that would likely require some sort of service in each application to exchange that data.

It's my understanding that Rail is going to store Ruby objects in session data. You could write some sort of serializer/deserializer for reading the Ruby objects out of the sessions table for your Rails application, and vice-versa for your PHP session data, but that doesn't sound like much fun and could be risky.

I would think that creating a web service (RESTful service might be good) to exchange session data between the apps is more feasible. But problem one is to implement "single sign-on" so your users will have a nice experience moving between the two applications.

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Robert Walker wrote:

I suppose there would be a way to implement a "single sign-on" system for your RoR and PHP applications.

As far as sharing session variables, that would likely require some sort of service in each application to exchange that data.

It's my understanding that Rail is going to store Ruby objects in session data. You could write some sort of serializer/deserializer for reading the Ruby objects out of the sessions table for your Rails application, and vice-versa for your PHP session data, but that doesn't sound like much fun and could be risky.

I would think that creating a web service (RESTful service might be good) to exchange session data between the apps is more feasible. But problem one is to implement "single sign-on" so your users will have a nice experience moving between the two applications.

I have developed a RoR application and would like add on a feature. Found a opensource solution (although developed in PHP). I wonder how I can integrate - they can share the same DB (MySQL) but how about session variables?

Is there a way the php application and my rails app can share/exchange the session variables (e.g. user_id, company_id)?

Thanks!

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Also, you can do login from rails and proxy login info to PHP app. Check this two articles: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtosDoSingleSignOnWithPHPbb http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/ExampleCookieJarHelper

best, Bojan