PHP, ColdFusion, and WordPress

  • I have a unique situation in that we want to use WordPress as our blogging engine of choice, but our corporate technology center won’t support PHP/MySQL as a means of publishing our web sites because they’ve standardized on ColdFusion. We have a lot of ColdFusion sites that needed blogs 2 years ago, but all there is for that is one or two open source hacks.

    I finally got someone to understand our need for something like WordPress and we may be able to set up a single blogging server that runs it. However, that leaves us with the question of integration…how to make Coldfusion-based sites work with WordPress, both on the admin side (internal users blogging to the public web site) and the public side (customers setting up their own blogs on our site).

    I’m really scratching my head here. I’ve searched all over the WP forums but only found one dead-end conversation about it. There has to be a way, but I don’t know where to start.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks.

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  • Since you are new here I should start with a warning: don’t get mislead by my “mod” status – because I am one of the least technical helpers around here.

    That said, it seems to me your question is very similar to a case where XYZ organization had a corporate website using ASP and they also wanted an “integrated” WP blog.

    What they did: left the existing website as it was, created a subdomain (blog.xyz.com) on a *nix/apache sever and ordered a theme that looked exactly like their main website – so the visitor doesn’t really notice when shifting from the “main” site to blog and vice-versa.

    Thread Starter rcwatson

    (@rcwatson)

    Ah, okay. Yes, I forgot to mention that we had thought of doing that, but weren’t too keen on keeping tabs on two separate copies of our CSS and XHTML templates.

    I suppose we could use absolute URLs when referring to the locations of CSS, JS, and other external files within our blog environment. We’ve run into snags with that before with defining consistent BASE headers and such, but it’s something to think about.

    We were just hoping that someone else with this same problem might have written some kind of connector code.

    two separate copies of our CSS and XHTML templates.

    ??? – not sure I get this. If you don’t use the theme system (i.e. WP’s own template files in the wp-content/themes/yourtheme directory) I don’t see how the blog can have any kind of style. Even having the rest of your site all in PHP/MySQL you still need to have a theme for WP.

    “but our corporate technology center won’t support PHP/MySQL as a means of publishing our web sites because they’ve standardized on ColdFusion”

    If that’s the case, I think your only choice is to forget about WP and look for a CF blogging platform.

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