Easy with the derogatory tone, Jeremy. If I knew how to connect to the WP database, and if I was experienced enough with Cake to do this, I probably wouldn't have posted my question in the first place.
I don't expect to get everything for free, but thanks for making that assumption. What I meant by wanting an existing plugin/component is that this task isn't important enough for me to invest hours and hours of my time. If I can find an existing tool to get the job done, I'll use it. Otherwise I'll move on down the road. To clarify my goal with this post - I am a Cake newbie and would like to know if anyone (other than Jeremy) has experience pulling posts from a (non-hosted) WP Blog into a Cake website, and can will point me to some good documentation on how to do it. On Thursday, April 12, 2012 11:25:54 AM UTC-5, jeremyharris wrote: > > 1. If you can't connect to the database how do you expect to pull data > from it? > 2. You can't expect to get everything for free, sometimes you need to > write code. It wouldn't be that hard, as I said, depending on how in depth > you want to be. > > There are no plugins out there that I know of that do this for you. Try > http://plugins.cakephp.org/ > > Lastly, if you don't want to connect to the database try looking into > reading the RSS and pulling the posts from that. > > On Thursday, April 12, 2012 9:21:40 AM UTC-7, creat1v1ty wrote: >> >> Thanks Jeremy - I'm not sure if I can connect to the WP database. I was >> hoping someone could point me to an existing plugin/component that does >> what I need it to do. I'm not interested in writing something from scratch. >> >> >> On Thursday, April 12, 2012 9:29:29 AM UTC-5, jeremyharris wrote: >>> >>> As long as you can connect to the WP database, I don't see why this >>> would be that hard. Just set it up as a separate database connection, set >>> up some models and you're good. >>> >>> It really depends on how crazy you want to get. For example, do you want >>> to form relationships that get the meta info, taxonomy, etc? If so, it's >>> not impossible but will take some thought because WP doesn't use Cake >>> conventions. Cake is plenty flexible enough to handle it, though. >>> >>> On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 8:17:48 PM UTC-7, creat1v1ty wrote: >>>> >>>> I have a Blog set up through wordpress.com and would like to be able >>>> to pull a few posts into my website (built using Cake). >>>> >>>> I've done some research and have found many articles related to >>>> CakePHP/Wordpress, however all of them so far deal with running a hosted >>>> version of WP, rather than integrating content from a non-hosted WP Blog >>>> into a Cake site. >>>> >>>> Does anyone have experience with this? >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance. >>>> >>> -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
