I have an old website with an old framework on PHP and mysql.
I want to migrate to wordpress.
I want to know if is possible or exist any plugin on wordpress that let me read data from mysql database and put them on page.
Other speaking, can I use the database and create pages dynamically with wordpress.
If yes please provide me a link contains a simple example to learn.
Appreciate in advance.
Shortly, it's possible to migrate website, which used some framework to wordpress cms. But there isn't any tools, which can do it for any framework type. Each website is differ with it's structure, pages, logics and goals.
For some cases there is plugins, extentions, which transfered the whole website from one framework to another.
But you should to know, that it can not be done 100% transfered without any losing.
Main migrate to wordpress is going so:
1.Compare databases and with sql commands insert into wodpress db information of posts/pages/users/products and etc., which will be inserted as it need wordpress to work with theme.
2.The second step is migrate static files to wordpress, such as html/css/js and make them work dinamically using wordpress functions, file structure and etc.
Please note, that if your framework have not many datas, it will be faster to just install new wordpress into server, find some theme, which will suit you, create posts/pages as you want and after it replace some information from old website
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I have a Wordpress blog that is now running in Linux/MySQL. Now, I have seen a product called Brandoo Wordpress which let you run Wordpress on IIS + MSSQL.
Since I am using Windows Server and MSSQL for all my other projects I would very much like to use it on my Wordpress blog too. The wordpress site is quite big and important. The blog is beloved for its adult content. It has a revenue on thousands of dollars/month so I don't want to rush in anything here.
The Brandoo Wordpress is a part of the application gallery in Windows Platform Installer and also in Windows Azure.
So my questions are:
Since Brandoo Wordpress is a part of the apps in Azure, do you think it is quality assured by Microsoft?
I guess before Microsoft adds a web app to Azure and Platform Installer it has to be safe and bug free? Right?
I have tested my Wordpress locally with Brandoo Wordpress and it seems to work great so far.
I'm member of Brandoo WordPress team and I think I can help You. So... Brandoo WordPress is based on MSSQL. If You are using plugins that uses non-standard (same for MS and My SQL) db query You must face situation when You will must drop those plugins untill we will create translation for those queries that are not translated yet. There is also one thing. Brandoo WordPress is one step behind mainline right now. It's because some MySQL speciffic query in onsite search function. We do not want to fork WP and change it to MS schema so we are still working on translation or disabling this subfunction (If we willagree that this is a safe way to do it). If this is ok for You, then Brandoo WordPress is good for Your production.
I wouldn't call this a guarantee, but one of the principles of submission to the web app store is to "Be Safe"
I am trying to create multi-site platform using codeigniter.
Requirements are:
- Same Codebase.
- Same Database.
Just wanted to know how to achieve multi-site platform if we use same database/codebase?
Is there any way we can create separate tables for each new site i.e wordpress multisite?
Thanks a lot.
For separate sites you have to create separate directories, and set paths accordingly
eg.
application/contollers/site1/index.php
application/contollers/site2/index.php
Same for views and models
For database you can use prefix,
eg: if u are creating same site in different languages
eng_title
arabic_title
eng_description
arabic_description or arb_description
and you can fetch your desired data with your query and condition.
CI tutorial would be helpful for your requirements, please check
Running Multiple Applications with one CodeIgniter Installation
I am looking for a way to handle a distributed development for Wordpress. For the moment I set up a shared git repository on which I have all the code of the website versioned. The problem I'm having regards how to handle the database. Clearly I need our site running while we (me and other developers) improve the website locally. This means that the user of the website (which is not up yet) will be able to modify our database (user registration, etc.) while we are working on the development of the site locally, using a dump of the database.
What I am trying to understand is the best practice to handle a shared development like this, while the site is running and thus the database can change.
Not sure what you develop, theme or plugins but with WordPress the change in the database should not have an effect on your development, unless you set something up where the user can create new custom posts, with that I mean a new "custom post" not a new post based on a custom post, which could potentially change the behavior of what you are developing.
If the user runs into something odd because of what they did, well that's called bug fixing, the good news is that you can just export and import the database to fix whatever they run into.
Database data changes isn't your problem (dump exchange, if needed, solve most)
Changes of structure are another big question, you can try to see (for brain-powered solution) on LiquiBase
I am a newbie programmer and i dont yet have any idea of the WEB. I wish to start learning a technology that will allow me to build websites( database driven) i dont know which one to choose. I know some actionscript3 and flash.
Is it possible to create a database driven website using these alone? Or do i need to learn any other technology? If i do then what should i learn? I know j2se for the desktop and oracle SQL/MySQL
please show me a path. Also wanted to know if there is any technology like Wordpress for J2EE/flash
OK so i finally got the feeling that i need to learn PHP anyway along with css and javascript. So it is fine. Also another query. Which CMS should i consider? Wordpress or Joomla?
You can develop a database driven website using Flash, but only in the same sense that you can develop a database driven website using AJAX. That is, you can build the front-end using Flash/ActionScript but the back-end is built using other technologies. Just like working with JavaScript to develop a front-end, from ActionScript you would be communicating with Java or PHP or Python or something on the server using RESTful calls and then actually working with the database in the server-side scripts.
Honestly = this question is too broad and generic, and answers are easily found with some google searches.
That being said = of course you can build a data driven flash site. The one caveat here is that flash itself is fundamentally client-side technology, so we must rely on other remote tech to do the heavy data lifting. The options are profuse.
For example, a developer might create a front facing presentation in Flex, which is the streamlined, data-centric extension of pure flash. His database interactions are written in php, and these are constantly called upon to deliver content to the user.
So - what technologies to use? Whatever you know. And if you don't know, then learn the ones that are closest to what you know.
Finally, although I am a die-hard fan of flash, this type of project (you didn't specify what you had in mind) could be done with many different technologies. So - maybe flash is the right answer, but maybe javascript (ajax) could manage the same thing and do it without the need of plugins.
Yes you can develop database driven site in flash/action script but you still need and back-end technology i recommend you to check WebORB you can develop the back-end using Java, PHP, or .NET In addition you can use Flash Remoting technology Flash/Flex to communicate with a back-end
Flash can't be directly connected to database. You must use another technique which would be "mediator". I have developed Flash game with MySql database and PHP and I recommend you to use this combination. Here is visually presented this kind of communication: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRi-oxjFfCU
yes, it is possible to crate database driven website with flash and action-script. You would get an XML file when you do action script in flash, so you can store nodes of that XML file into database(mysql). You can then create an Admin interface to manage your database contents, that would indirectly change your xml nodes. So basically you can edit the xml file and store it in the database.
I'm looking for a WordPress plugin to manage and store data (preferably in a separate database, or at least a separate table from the rest of WordPress ). Something along the lines of Caspio Bridge or Zoho Creator, but much simpler. I don't need to be able to do much with it (at the moment) - just import/export csv and search through it.
Whenever I try and search for anything to do with databases and WordPress all I get is information on it's database, so hoping someone here will have some suggestions!
I think this is what you are looking for:
Creating Tables with Plugins
http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Tables_with_Plugins
There is PHPMyadmin plugn for Wordpress here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-phpmyadmin/
And the small Adminer plugin too:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminer/