WP Engineer » Integration http://wpengineer.com WordPress News, Hacks, Tips, Tutorials, Plugins and Themes Mon, 21 May 2012 22:48:48 +0000 en hourly 1 Use Constants To Integrate WordPress In Other CMS http://wpengineer.com/647/use-constants-integrate-wordpress/ http://wpengineer.com/647/use-constants-integrate-wordpress/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:03:18 +0000 Michael http://wpengineer.com/?p=647 Sometimes you need to integrate WordPress into another CMS, like Typo3, Drupal or whatever is out there. The blog should have the same design, use same images and Javascript or implement existing links. Mostly you run the WordPress blog on a subdomain like blog.example.com and the data lies on example.com/css/ and so on.

The easiest solution in such cases is to use constants, to access the existing files. We define them in functions.php of the theme folder:

<?php
define('DIR_ROOT', 'http://example.com');
define('DIR_STYLESHEETS', DIR_ROOT . '/css');
define('DIR_IMAGES', DIR_ROOT . '/images');
define('DIR_JAVASCRIPT', DIR_ROOT . '/js');
?>

In your theme you use the constants like this:

<script src="<?php echo DIR_JAVASCRIPT; ?>/myeffects.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<img src="<?php echo DIR_IMAGES; ?>/myimage.jpg" alt="foo" />

Easy, right? Mostly a little stylesheet is enough for special WordPress adjustments, which you load after the stylesheets of the CMS.

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