title: CakePHP and Drupal 6 need to talk to each other, but how?
body: <p>I have a CakePHP app which needs to take data from Drupal (6).  Specifically, there is one custom content type and one webform that need to be shared with CakePHP - so when a new node for that content type is added, or a webform submitted, Cake knows about it.  I'm not sure the best way to do this, I've come up with two approaches:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Having an alternative datasource for the models in question, and read directly from the Drupal database.  However, the Drupal tables are in a Drupally format, which I'd rather not write lots of $this->Model->find()s for - it will be a bit of a pain.  I don't totally understand where Drupal stores everything, either.</li>
  <li>Writing some code in Drupal to save the data in a different format in the CakePHP database.  I don't know how easy this would be - I'm more up to speed with Cake than Drupal.  I guess I'd use hook_form_alter and add a function to the $form[#submit] array?</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Does anyone have advice about which of these two would be better, or if there's another option?  I'm leaning towards the second idea.</p>
  
  <p>Help greatly appreciated, thanks</p>