Connect to external database?

  • Resolved rforster

    (@rforster)


    16 years, 2 months ago

    Hi All,

    This might be an advanced question but I’d like to connect to database on my site that generates lists. Used to use it on my site before I switched to WP.

    I tried to use some code inside the code tags in a new page I made but the page showed my code rather than running the code. My old pages were a body tag, include my header, run my script for my list, include my footer, close body.

    Can someone point me to reference here? Been searching but a lot of the topics get complicated fast. Thanks for any help.

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  • Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    Why not just add your code to a Page template? There’s some good info on templates at the Pages page in the codex that could get you rolling.

    Thread Starter rforster

    (@rforster)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    I made this work, kinda. Made a template with:
    <?php
    /*
    Template Name: Template_php
    */
    ?>

    Then I cut and paste my database call. saved and uploaded the file into themes default. Loaded the page and it worked! Pretty ugly though.

    I added the code from the index so my template has:
    <?php
    /*
    Template Name: Template_php
    */
    define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
    require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
    ?>
    No change. Figure this would call the header and us the theme stuff.
    On the right track but not quite right…

    Thread Starter rforster

    (@rforster)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    Actually thought I had made a template. Going back to read more from the link you gave. thx
    Edit: I think I should have modified page.php and put my code inside <div id=”content” class=”narrowcolumn”>
    </div>

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