CiviCRM Components
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- Not Just a Contact Database
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These optional components give you more power to connect and engage your supporters.
civiCONTRIBUTE
Online fundraising and donor management.
civiEVENT
Online event registration and participant tracking.
civiMEMBER
Online signup and membership management.
civiMAIL
Personalized email blasts and newsletters.
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Recent Blog Posts
- NTEN 2008 Donor Management Software Satisfaction Survey Results
- New in 2.2: Token hooks and Smarty templates for CiviMail
- CiviCRM 2.1.2 and CiviCRM 2.0.7 released
- REST API updates
- New in 2.2: State-Country widget, customizing event registration amounts for members
- Join Us at the 2008 Nonprofit Software Development Summit Next Week
- Billing Information Improvements for 2.2
- In the thick of CiviCase pre-alpha
- CiviCase Progress Report
- Mailing list subscription forms in Drupal blocks
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Distributed authentication
One of the more tedious moments in visiting a new website is filling out the registration form. Here at CiviCRM, you do not have to fill out a registration form if you are already a member of Drupal, . This capability is called distributed authentication, and Drupal, the software which powers CiviCRM, fully supports it.
Distributed authentication enables a new user to input a username and password into the login box, and immediately be recognized, even if that user never registered at CiviCRM. This works because Drupal knows how to communicate with external registration databases. For example, lets say that new user 'Joe' is already a registered member of Delphi Forums. Drupal informs Joe on registration and login screens that he may login with his Delphi ID instead of registering with CiviCRM. Joe likes that idea, and logs in with a username of joe@remote.delphiforums.com and his usual Delphi password. Drupal then contacts the remote.delphiforums.com server behind the scenes (usually using XML-RPC, HTTP POST, or SOAP) and asks: "Is the password for user Joe correct?". If Delphi replies yes, then we create a new CiviCRM account for Joe and log him into it. Joe may keep on logging into CiviCRM in the same manner, and he will always be logged into the same account.
