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Moshu:

I was referring to the syntax only, not the contents. You are right I should have been more clear. I just copied the text he had in there.However , I did have success with that format as far as the file being included , it just did not work the way I expected, and I can see now that it never will.

And I never claimed to be an expert, just competent. Like seeing that the parentheses were missing from a function call.

Sorry for any confusion. I was just trying to be helpful. I will dispense with any further advice unless I have thoroughly tested it my self.

Pablo

Bloodhound: Try putting the url in parens like this
<?PHP include ‘https://distinctivephoenix.com/Contrib.php&#8217;)?>

Moshu: I never thought of using posts as the method of storing the recipes. I was hoping to have a database that could be maintained outside of wordpress and accessed from within wordpress.
Your suggestion is a good one and I will consider using it , at least for the short term.

Being a relatively new to wordpress, I tend to think more in terms of things I know better like mysql and php.

My main page/blog is videos of recipes. I wanted to make written recipes separate. Which would still work with your suggestion. I would probably need to make a new set of categories and sidebars for the recipe page though, to keep it clean.

Thanks for your patience and all your help.

moshu:
Actually I don’t have any recipes in the database. It comes with a bunch though. I would be willing to enter in my own recipes into a new database, but I am not sure what where to begin to set that up in wordpress. I would need a user interface to enter the recipes and a way to display them by category.
You say all the capabilites exist in WordPress that were in the recipe script, can you point me towards some documentation or maybe sites that are set up like that ?

Regards

Pablo

Moshu:

I was probably going to get rid of those 2 features anyway.

But just to clarify, are you saying I could import the recipe database into the wp database and put the php code into a page, or someting similar ?

I am more interested in what works best not necessarily what is the easiest.

Thanks

Pablo

Thanks for the replies all.

The script is from https://www.easysitenetwork.com/

It is the recipe site that I am using.

It is a free download and free to use as long as you leave the link in at the bottom.

I am fairly competent at using php but by no means an expert. So I can follow basic instructions and troubleshoot most problems by looking at the code.

I thought getting a ready made script that already works would be easier than creating one from scratch.

The script is working fine the location it is stored.
freecookingvideos.com/recipepage

Stefan: Can you elaborate on the doorway page ? Or point me towards documentation ? I hate to waste peoples time if there is something I can read to answer my questions.

I know I can always just create a separate page outside of wordpress to accomplish what I need, but prefer to have it all in wordpress if possible, nice and clean.

Thanks again for your time

Thanks for the reply moshu & Stefan

recipepage is a folder. I thought it wise not to mix these files in with the wp files.

I suppose I could rename some files and put it right in the root. There are many common names that are re-used such as index.php.

I tried the ezstatic plugin and that made the path /freecookingvideo/recipe

Without really understanding how the pages work, I would not want to play with that.

Is it possible to write a plugin to do this or do you know of one available ?

It is a shame, because I am so close I can taste it.

I suppose it is possible to include the recipe database in the wordpress database and put the code right into a page. I read about that somewhere. I think that is more work than it is worth at this point though. But if you can point me towards some documentation for doing such a thing, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks again
Pablo

Thanks moshu:

I went and changed it to
<?php require (‘https://www.freecookingvideos.com/recipepage/&#8217;); ?>

But it still goes to the abspath.

Is there a way to change the path for a page ?

I followed the directions, but I cannot get a google video to play. It shows up as text in the post.

The example shows a path to google video, but I cannot find this without the embed tags at the google video site.

I removed the embed and any other extraneous information and it still would not work.

I am going to try it with a .mov file , but would like to use the google video.

Any ideas