Suggestion for using Drupal Comment in PHP Application

Question

I'm developing a web Application using PHP. And there i need to use commenting system. One of my senior suggested me to use Drupal for the commenting system, i referred some websites, but i got a contradicting answers. Some of them says "integrating Drupal with any website application will not be consistent". Is that right? Or may i use Drupal comments in my PHP Application?

I know this is not a programming question, still i need to get some experts advice for this. so i post my question here.

Answer 1

In short, if the rest of your project is built in Drupal, then absolutely use Drupal's comment system. If not, you're probably better off using something else.

Drupal is a flexible content management system and framework that provides way more out-of-the-box functionality than just comments. The comment system is relatively tightly coupled to Drupal's nodes and entities and isn't currently intended to be used stand alone. Using just the comment module in Drupal would entail quite a bit of work just in disabling the parts you wouldn't be using and then figuring out how to integrate with the parts you needed. You would be in uncharted territory, with little to no documentation available to help you figure out how to do all that.

If you just need a comment system, you're better off using a stand-alone comment service (such as Disqus or IntenseDebate ) or using a package tailored for comments (such as juvia or EasyPageComments ) or writing your own comment system.