I would go ahead and write a service, then consume it from inside Wordpress, don't use AJAX There are several tutorials for Wordpress + Consume Webservice
If you get stuck feel free to ask again :) T On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Jeremy Burns <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I'm two and a half months into a project replacing an e-commerce site > with a custom built CakePHP site. The current site starts in Wordpress > (LAMP) and flips to a horribly written PHP site (WAMP) with all sorts of > reverse proxies and stuff going on. The client has now decided they want to > retain the Wordpress site for CMS (I get that) and because it has great SEO > rankings (I get that too). However, they want everything to happen inside > Wordpress rather than flipping out to a stand alone site for order > processing. I've already written much of the back end order processing > stuff in Cake and it makes sense to retain that. > > My question is: how can I display Cake elements (or views) inside the > Wordpress site? For example, there's a quote form that takes in the > customer's requirements, puts it through some fairly detailed calculations > and returns prices, up-sells and postage details. My initial thoughts are > to make an ajax call to the Cake API and return either fully rendered HTML > or perhaps just some json data. Before I spend days trying stuff out is > there another route? Does anyone have any experience or advice? Should > Wordpress exist in the webfoot folder (as if it were just being used as a > blog) or should they be on separate domains ('/' and /-api, for example)? > The next challenge will be sharing session information but there's plenty > of existing searches for that. > > Thanks. > > -- > Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP > Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CakePHP" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- ============================================================= Hire a CakePHP dev team : http://sanisoft.com ============================================================= -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
