Hi David,
Just bought PT having heard lots of great things about the script and the level of support you provide (something which is immediately obvious from your responses on this forum).
The bad news for you is that I am a bit of a novice at this so will know doubt ask lots of stupid questions!
I plan to use PT in conjunction with an existing wordpress site I have. I have done a search on the forum as to the best way to do this and have come across a number of threads over various timespans so wanted to just run through a checklist of what is the best/most up to date way of doing this.
The WP site is installed on the root directory. So from what I have been able to glean from the forum I should do the following:
- Install PT on a subdirectory, ideally with its own database if possible or else using the WP database (http://www.pricetapestry.com/node/2495)
- use the new priceExternal, searchExternal and featuredExternal shown at the bottom of this thread (http://www.pricetapestry.com/node/2289)to pull the relevant info into WP
Am I on the right track with this start point?
Thanks
Jamie
Hello Jamie,
Welcome to the forum and thank you for your comments!
Yes - you're on exactly the right tracks regarding the latest "external" scripts.
If an exclusive database isn't possible on your hosting plan, you should be OK sharing the WordPress database using a suitable value for $config_databaseTablePrefix in config.php (for example pt_ ) to ensure that there is no conflict between table names.
When installing Price Tapestry in a sub-directory; remember to set $config_baseHREF as required, and if enabling clean URLs (may not be necessary if you're only using Price Tapestry via the external scripts) then RewriteBase to the same value in .htaccess (created from htaccess.txt in the distribution).
Cheers,
David.