I wasn't intending to be condescending, so I apologize for that. Good luck in your search.
On Thursday, April 12, 2012 9:56:52 AM UTC-7, creat1v1ty wrote: > > 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 cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
