re: Fwd: LC / WordPress / CGI challenge

2016-05-29 Thread Todd Fabacher
Hello Richard, Rating Stars for WP - just doing an iFrame will not be that simple, because you will need to transfer a good deal of info into calling iFrame. Plus you will NOT be able to track the user. I suggest using a WP plugin like this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/rating-widget/. There

Re: Fwd: LC / WordPress / CGI challenge

2016-05-29 Thread Dave Kilroy
Richard, actually you might be better off with Alex's suggestion of a WP plugin. iFrames in WP with .lc content work fine, but from within an iFrame I don't think there is a way for your Livecode Server script to access WP's data on the user/session and thence know whether a user has rated a

Re: Fwd: LC / WordPress / CGI challenge

2016-05-29 Thread Richard Miller
Thanks, Stephen. Those two inclinations were what I was thinking as well. Thanks for confirming. On 5/29/16 4:52 PM, stephen barncard wrote: 1. I wouldn't bother trying to do this simple task in PHP if I didn't have to... how about.. create a livecode server page with the rating/poll

Re: Fwd: LC / WordPress / CGI challenge

2016-05-29 Thread stephen barncard
1. I wouldn't bother trying to do this simple task in PHP if I didn't have to... how about.. create a livecode server page with the rating/poll page and business logic since you said you could do that ... and easy to check and debug outside WP. and then use an IFRAME in the html to display

Re: Fwd: LC / WordPress / CGI challenge

2016-05-29 Thread Alex Tweedly
Disclaimer - I don't know much about Wordpress. But after Todd's postings about it during the recent funding effort, I decided to go back and try again to use it (previous attempts have failed in a myriad of features that appear to be documented only on videos - the least time-effective way to