Title: use a wordpress function in another .php to get data in same host
Last modified: September 9, 2016

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# use a wordpress function in another .php to get data in same host

 *  [rkvisit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rkvisit/)
 * (@rkvisit)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-a-wordpress-function-in-another-php-to-get-data-in-same-host/)
 * i need to create an API to access to my site processes from a mobile app.to authenticate
   mobile app i need to check whether the user is in WordPress db and issue him/
   her an authentication token.So how i can easily achieve this? If i can use WordPress
   function such as get_user_by,check password,to get this done?then what are the
   files i should include to my php
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 9 months ago by [rkvisit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rkvisit/).

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