Do you have to use PHP

  • shieldfire

    (@shieldfire)


    6 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    Basic (!) question, do you have to use PHP when integrating a WordPress site with external sites? I got a request of synchronizing external databases based on events (as in event manager records) on the wordpress site. I got a guy who might be able to do it, but he isn’t a PHP developer.

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    6 years, 6 months ago

    Yes, you’ll need to use PHP to access hooks and actions provided by WP, its plugins and themes.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    6 years, 6 months ago

    If an external site wants to access WP data only, it could do so through the REST API. You’ll need an authentication plugin for privileged access, but no one needs to write PHP code. Any sort of HTTP request from any language can be used to access the API. “Any language” qualified by that it needs to be able to encode and parse JSON.

    That said, your event data needs to be properly exposed to the API for this to work. That part does require PHP, but it may have been already exposed by the code that has setup the event data to start with. As Steve points out, any customizing of WP functionality would require PHP. But there is a lot available through the API without any customizing.

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