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

By: The Eclectic Techie: Dynamic WordPress content - getting content from another database

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:20:41 +0000

[...] tons of great web sites where people share their knowledge (most notably John Faulds code example here), and WordPress's own outstanding documentation, it was easy to develop some simple code to perform [...]

By: mr. choc

mr. choc — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:42:44 +0000

wonderful, saved my day, while i tried to include my own php code into my wordpress template. thy a lot. mr. choc

By: John Tabernik

John Tabernik — Sat, 14 May 2011 01:41:51 +0000

Awesome, thanks very much! I am working on a project with WordPress, I will reference your site in my eventual blog post on it.

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Sun, 23 May 2010 19:37:02 +0000

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By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:47:13 +0000

Maulik, it’s pretty hard to say without seeing what your config file looks like or knowing how the servers are set up.

By: Maulik Parikh

Maulik Parikh — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:19:50 +0000

@JOHN: I am using your technique to have my external database situated at another server apart from WordPress server to work with but even after getting connected, the query does not get executed. And it dies with a custom die statement thrown by me.

Can you please help me out?

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:42:56 +0000

Sorry Brooks, not enough info to go on. You’re probably better posting in a web dev related forum for troubleshooting rather than the comments here.

By: Brooks

Brooks — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:55:15 +0000

I’m trying to use this, however i keep running into errors in getting it to work. I am simply trying to copy your code, get that to work and then I’ll modify it for my website. Currently i am getting the following error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/reddings/public_html/brooks/wp-content/plugins/exec-php/includes/runtime.php(42) : eval()�d code on line 5

Thanks for any help you might be able to provide

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.