SelArom

never mind it was a configuration with php issue. fixed. thanks!

-SelArom

okay nevermind I finally found it. it’s in the “Users” section at the bottom, you have to untick the box.

thanks! sorry for repost, I did a search and didn’t find anything!

-SelArom

the wordpress database would be for a blog which will be one component of the cms. the cms as a whole will have its own db structure.

i think i will go ahead and build a custom blog solution just to be on the safe side…

however I would like to make a “plugin” that can read the wordpress db structure, would I only have to follow the GPL for that plugin or would the whole cms fall under it now?

thanks for your advice, I really appreciate it

-SelArom

so to make sure I understand, even just using the db structure would still fall under the gpl, right? I’m not literally “porting” the code, because I don’t understand php and won’t even be looking at the logic. I will be coding the access and everything from scratch, I just want to use the wp database.

why? because I want to use my blog that is already saved in a wp database, but in asp.net. I guess it’s not that much of a leap to just make the db, then some script to transfer the entries between db. would I be clean then?

thanks
-SelArom

thanks I’m looking at that now…

but i have a tricky question:

my cms solution is in .net, so I’m not using any of the source code for wordpress. I have not looked at it nor will I use ANY portion of it when I add it to my cms. do I still have to follow this license?

I guess what I’m asking is that I’m not going to EXTEND or MODIFY wordpress, I’m going to PORT it, but by building my own custom set of pages and scripts to access the database.

so what does that mean for me? I really don’t want to give away my source code, but I don’t know how the rules would apply in my situation. I might just have to make up my own blog database or something and ditch wordpress altogether…

thanks for your insight
-SelArom

well I’ve finally made some progress on what I was trying to acheive when I created this post about 4 months ago! I managed to create a front-end for WordPress that uses ASP.NET instead of PHP. it’s not the greatest port in the world, as I haven’t even touched the admin interface (it still uses PHP) but now I can finally make my blog match the rest of my site! If you’re interested in seeing it in action, check out my blog. As soon as I clean everything up I’ll release the source on my site, if anyone is interested in expanding on it (maybe start working on the admin section!)

-SelArom

whew now that school has been out for a while (finally!) I’ve had some time to tinker with using asp.net 2.0 with wordpress, and I’ve had some pretty good success! but there’s one thing I haven’t been able to figure out: wordpress doesn’t use a seperate page for different types of posts (like singlepost.php, categories.php, monthPosts.php it seems that it uses the query string to figure out what to do. But I don’t know how that would be applied to asp.net. I’m really not very good at all with php so I’m not sure what I should be doing. I’ve had to resort to making the seperate pages (singlepost.aspx, etc) for now, but I don’t want my links to be broken (like in google, and other places i’ve linked to my blogs). anybody have any advice on how best to handle this? THANKS!

-SelArom

hey hey i’m starting to figure it out ?? I’m also working on making an asp.net version of wordpress (at least the display of it). I’m using 2.0 beta 2 and it’s coming along pretty good. I’ll make a post when it’s finished if anyone is interested. thanks for the tips everyone!

-SelArom

basically what I mean is that my site is all in asp.net and wordpress is in php so it makes things complicated (at least for me)

-SelArom

this sounds absolutely fascinating, but how do you go about creating a graphically “nice” site using it? It seems most of the sites that use it just end up looking like newspapers, which is pretty boring. Would someone like to give me an idea on how to get started converting my page design to one that uses css? I don’t see how it can be done.

-SelArom

could you point me in the right direction to redesigning my site without tables? Is it really worth it (considering speed, ease of maintenance, etc)? What are the benefits/drawbacks? How (basically) does it work?

-SelArom

Thank you for the link! That will really help to clean up that mess ?? as for using tables, that’s the way I made my website and I don’t know of any other way to make that layout. If you do, I would love to make it better. Thank you!

-SelArom

I would definitely love to be a part of this, but looking at the code in php it’s all over the place, and I wouldn’t even know where to begin, especailly to make it easily distributable. But it’s a great blog utility (I think it’s the BEST) and I’m sure many windows users would love to use it!

-SelArom

Thank you!!! this was driving me utterly insane. Is there a way to have both an excerpt, AND the pictures instead of the whole post?
-SelArom