The first important thing when you want to create a multi-app site is to
share the same session/auth and maybe share the same database, at least the
same users database.
with web2py you can easily use the same database to store users, and also
you can store sessions on that database too, it is the first pass to keep
state between applications.
Another option is using CAS to centralize the users (but I personally like
to use the "one-db-session" approach)
Having users and its state on all applications now you have to decide if
you will connect the apps using ajax, urls or API's, for the 3 cases web2py
has a solution.
{{=LOAD(URL("otherapp", "controller", "function"), null, 'target') for use
ajax coponents
URL("otherapp", "controller", "function") to simply link the apps
See RESTFUL and webservices on the book for the API's approach.
There is one more important thing you can do: Put your apps general
functions, classes and table definitions in modules, put the modules in
"web2py/site-packages" so in any application you can do "import something".
Besides the initial work on setting up the same db and sessions for the
users, I see that it is very simple to have a multi-app website.
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:54 PM, bussiere adrien <bussi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> this doc is outdated is there anything news for making a website with more
> than one app ?
>
> regards
> Bussiere
>
> Le lundi 15 mars 2010 16:19:23 UTC+1, mdipierro a écrit :
>>
>> For now look at the following links that may help you:
>>
>> For an example of {{=LOAD(...)}}
>>
>> http://gluonframework.**wordpress.com/2010/03/07/**
>> web2py-ajax-and-forms/<http://gluonframework.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/web2py-ajax-and-forms/>
>>
>> You can load an action from the same app or other apps.
>>
>> For ways an app can share data with another app:
>>
>>
>> http://www.web2py.com/book/**default/section/4/19<http://www.web2py.com/book/default/section/4/19>
>>
>> http://www.web2py.com/book/**default/section/4/20<http://www.web2py.com/book/default/section/4/20>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Massimo
>>
>> On Mar 12, 7:26 am, Rahul <rahul.dhak...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi All, Massimo,
>> > I've been designing a web app using web2py. Web2py is
>> > really a
>> > very well designed framework. I am considering it along with
>> > Django for a
>> > medium sized web app development. How ever I would like to know,
>> > if I can
>> > code more applications for a single complex site (as we can do in
>> > Django)
>> > and link it to one single application.I am not using CAS as I have
>> > created
>> > my own authentication system. Here's an example to make it clear
>> > of what I
>> > want-
>> > *my site*
>> > |__ site pages along with main page
>> > |__ link to app1 ( a blog that is a separate web2py app)
>> > |__ link to a app2 (chat client) ( again a separate
>> > web2py app)
>> > |__ link to my database triggered app3 (again a separate
>> > web2py
>> > app)
>> >
>> > In short how do I modularise my web2py project to combine
>> > different
>> > applications into my original site web2py project. From the web
>> > I've seen a
>> > post from Yarko that mentions this
>> >
>> > {{=LOAD(...,application='
>> > otherapp')}}
>> >
>> > but technically I could not find any documentation either in your
>> > online
>> > book or site. Can you please provide methods of how this is
>> > achievable
>> > without sacrificing simplicity. I have also heard about plugins
>> > but not
>> > really sure what they are and should I be really using those.
>> >
>> > Please suggest.
>> >
>> > Sincerely, Rahul D
>> > (India)
>>
>>
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