To use WordPress for developing a web application

Question

I\'m planning to develop a web application which will have many static pages (about, help, contact, etc.) and other dynamic pages for the application.

Most of the ti

Answer 1

Use WordPress on the admin side for editing the textual content (and even menus). But use a custom CakePHP app to output that content.

CakePHP can read formatted content straight off the WordPress database tables (or a custom views). You need to define a new database connection and a new model (e.g. Post).

Here's a sample example implementation:

A new database connection in /app/database.php:

class DATABASE_CONFIG {
    // ...
    var $wp = array(
            'driver' => 'mysql',
            'persistent' => false,
            'host' => 'localhost',
            'login' => '',
            'password' => '',
            'database' => '',
            'prefix' => 'wp_',
    );
}

A new model in /app/models/post.php:

class Post extends AppModel {
    var $primaryKey = 'ID';
    // Could define relations
}

Any controller now can fetch the content, e.g.:

class XxxController extends AppController {

    function index($postName) {
        $this->set('post', $this->Post->findByPostName($postName));
    }

}

And the view can simply output the HTML content of the post:

Here is a more elaborate example: http://code.google.com/p/cakephp-wordpress/.