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

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 :helpme if you understand or if you can help...

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....

2 methods.

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

:thumbsup

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

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

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

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>

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

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