After spending a lot of time, CiviSync CMS Component (for Joomla) and Module (for Drupal) were able to see the sunlight. We have now released the two extensions on our website www.targetintegration.com
CiviSync CMS was primarily created as an additional item to CiviSync Outlook Addon (Still Under Development); to provide an easy to use interface to manage site key of a CiviCRM installation and API Key for the users in the database. Thanks to Xavier who helped me realise the full potential of CiviSync CMS; that not only CiviSync but whereever you want to use API, CiviSync CMS can be a useful tool.
I have taken the following from the wiki and modified for those unaware about Site Keys and API Keys:
What is a Site Key?
You are required to pass authentication information at runtime to prevent any scripts in CiviCRM from being invoked by an unauthorized agent. CiviCRM uses a Site Key in addition to a valid username and password. The site key is a 16-32 bit alphanumeric/punctuation key value. Also, the site key should not contain any reserved or unsafe URL characters.
What is API Key?
In order to use the REST API a user is required to have an API Key stored in the database. This API Key is to be passed with each transaction together with the username and password of the user.
So guys, download CiviSync CMS for Joomla v1.5 or Drupal v6 from here and tell us what do you think.
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Thanks to all at Target Integration for releasing this work under the GPL 2!
I tried finding it on github for ease of access but couldn't see it, so have uploaded the Drupal 7 version to https://github.com/communitybuilders/CiviSync for ease of use.
If you already have it up on github, or put it up there in future, please let me know as I'd much prefer to clone it from the "authoritative source" so that we can more easily track future developments and hopefully make a contribution or two!
Thanks again
Andrew