kork1010

Oh wow, I’m sorry Michael.. I didn’t read the thread the whole way to the end. I followed a couple of those links in that thread you posted and since they only talked about accessing WP database from other scripts or just adding tables to the WP database, I assumed the rest of the discussion was inline with that.

I’m very sorry. I reread the thread at the end and see exactly what you were trying to point out to me. I apologize for my lack of not reading it thoroughly. Thank you so much for finding this for me. I still have some testing to do to see if I can make this work, but I feel you’ve put me on the right track!

MichaelH.. thanks for the link, but their implementation (accessing WordPress database from an outside script) is different than what I am trying to acheive (access a non-WP database from within WordPress). I would very much like to use WordPress for this project I am working on, however, I just don’t understand what its flexibility is in terms of interacting with other non-WP databases.

Thanks… my main purpose would be to query another database with say the “post_title” to see if a certain product exists in a product database that is mentioned in the post’s title. Or create some sort of [bb code] for things I want to query against that database to see if a match exists, and use conditionals to output things. Sound more than doable? Thanks so much.

Moshu,

I see now. I am using a template that was 2.2 compatible, but the website of the template hasn’t updated to say if it is compatible with 2.3 or not. Do you think it is safe to try updating to 2.3? Thank you so much for your help.