While it may possible to connect using mysqli->connect it is always better to make use of built in WordPress functionality (even for external code). By this I mean that you should use the wpdb class. See https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/wpdb for more information. First you need to link to the WordPress class: echo ‘<h1>WP Connect DB</h1>’; echo ‘<p>Directory … Read more
The debug log will only capture PHP-generated errors as well as things you manually send yourself. So if it is not being created right now, then there are no warnings/errors being generated by PHP right now. In order to send things manually, you use error_log(). One quick note though is that you have to set … Read more
The pro version of “Duplicator” should be able to handle that. I remeber to have used that once for a situation similar to what you describe.
It is possible with MySQL, and it doesn’t seem to create any problem with wordpress’s dbDelta() Here is the line you need to change $charset_collate = $wpdb->get_charset_collate() . ‘ engine = innoDB’; You simply have to add engine = innoDB at the end of the SQL query and the correct engine will be used by … Read more
As Pat J suggested, it sounds like I was attempting to reinvent the wheel here. A quick review of the HypereDB plugin also pointed out that it worked well with MultiSite and multiple databases. I guess that is why there’s not more out there on others trying to do what I was proposing.
See here $wpdb->get_results $wpdb->get_results($query,ARRAY_A );
Well the question is do you want to leverage WordPress or do you want to use your custom data. You can build fairly complex things in WordPress even with a plugin like Advanced Custom Fields, make a bunch of custom post types that all have different custom fields(some of which can be other post objects, … Read more
Solved it! Problem was I needed to update the wp_blogs table with the proper domain and path.
I’d highly recommend to escape all values before output, e.g. echo esc_html( $retrieved_data->NAME ). The same for the image: <img src=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/292680/<?php echo esc_url( $retrieved_data->icon ); ?>” /> You can read more about Securing Output in the developer handbook.
You can always create your own custom database tables and access them with or without the WordPress wrapper. However in this case, it sounds like you want Custom Post Types I think you may have a bit of a misunderstanding as to what a “post” or “custom post type” is in WordPress. Though 100% honestly, … Read more