Wordpress question: How to use custom field outside of wordpress but same domain

[tonyparra]

I have a domain that has wordpress running on the site but i use another script also, that is completely not wordpress and i would like to call wordpress custom fields in this script, anyone know how to do this?

For example wordpress controls sitea.com and the other script can make a page like sitea.com/page but its not a wordpress page if you understand or if you can help...

[EddyTheDog]

There is nothing stopping you pulling data from the mySQL DB that WP is using.

Its one of those easy if you know how to it problems....

[fris]

2 methods.

1. connect to the sql db and grab the info you want.
2. use xmlrpc and get the info that way.

[Colmike9]

Originally Posted by fris

2 methods.

1. connect to the sql db and grab the info you want.
2. use xmlrpc and get the info that way.

I'd go with #2, though.

[fris]

Originally Posted by Colmike7

I'd go with #2, though.

ya

here is a quick example i put together just now

http://labs.fris.net/xmlrpc/

just gets 1 post but can do anythign with xmlrpc

[EddyTheDog]

Also you can use the REST API - It might be easier to learn and returns results in JSON.

http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/

[just a punk]

Originally Posted by tonyparra

I have a domain that has wordpress running on the site but i use another script also, that is completely not wordpress and i would like to call wordpress custom fields in this script, anyone know how to do this?

For example wordpress controls sitea.com and the other script can make a page like sitea.com/page but its not a wordpress page if you understand or if you can help...

Here is a third solution. As far as I know, you are a CyberSEO customer. In such a case you can get the custom field values for any post you want via simple RSS feed using the following URL variable:

custom_tags=custom_field_name1[,custom_field_name1,...]

For example, let's consider that you have a blog at http://www.yourblog.com/ and want to get values of the "thumb" and "views" custom fields. You can do it like this:

http://www.yourblog.com/feed/?custom_tags=thumb,views

The requested values will be included into every feed item as simple XML tags, e.g.:

<item>
...
<thumb><![CDATA[http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130217175755-37-danica-video-tease.jpg]]></thumb>
<views><![CDATA[14]]></views>
...
</item>

[tonyparra]

Originally Posted by fris

ya

here is a quick example i put together just now

http://labs.fris.net/xmlrpc/

just gets 1 post but can do anythign with xmlrpc

havent used this before, have to look it up..or is there a quick tut i can look at?

[tonyparra]

Originally Posted by CyberSEO

Here is a third solution. As far as I know, you are a CyberSEO customer. In such a case you can get the custom field values for any post you want via simple RSS feed using the following URL variable:

custom_tags=custom_field_name1[,custom_field_name1,...]

For example, let's consider that you have a blog at http://www.yourblog.com/ and want to get values of the "thumb" and "views" custom fields. You can do it like this:

http://www.yourblog.com/feed/?custom_tags=thumb,views

The requested values will be included into every feed item as simple XML tags, e.g.:

<item>
...
<thumb><![CDATA[http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130217175755-37-danica-video-tease.jpg]]></thumb>
<views><![CDATA[14]]></views>
...
</item>

did not consider this one...might be the easy way out