Comments on: Connecting to an external database from within a Wordpress post

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:24:21 +0000

Sounds like a good idea and also a good idea for someone to write a blog post about.

By: Marty Martin

Marty Martin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:41:53 +0000

You could easily implement this in your functions.php file and create a short code for use in your post. Then you wouldn’t need phpexec.

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:42:58 +0000

Hi Ram, I’m sorry but I don’t understand the question.

By: ram

ram — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:44:51 +0000

please give me the procedure if i am implementing dB for a login form for both admin remote server as well as localhost.

By: ram

ram — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:22:25 +0000

every thing is perfectly OK .but i don’t understand, in which editor do i modify this?

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:18:00 +0000

That’s assuming the database connection file resides within your Wordpress directory structure, which might not necessarily be the case.

By: R'phael Spindel

R'phael Spindel — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:18:43 +0000

You really want to use one of the Wordpress path constants in order to include your custom php file.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Determining_Plugin_and_Content_Directories

By: luis cordova

luis cordova — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:12:03 +0000

I was able to solve my problem modifying the function on my database manipulation to include the mysql_select_db function and commenting the mysql_close function safely.

By: luis cordova

luis cordova — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:10:01 +0000

hi,

I still get the error

Warning: mysql_error(): 10 is not a valid MySQL-Link resource

which is triggered differently.

I just wonder how to debug such an error since it points to a sub sub function.

By: The Frosty @WPCult

The Frosty @WPCult — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:46:37 +0000

Totally awesome!
I was looking for something like this. Want to turn it into a function to call my database options on a custom theme I released.

Now to figure on how to implement