It took about 5, maybe 6 hours but it’s done. Facebook Connect’s Comment box has been integrated into ‘*.MrEaster.com – Media’. And this means what? I means Facebook users can now comment on the any pictures/image simply by logging in with their Facebook ID, or by just providing a name and email address … I’m beat, that took a lot of work. Enjoy!
Have Fun,
Mr. Easter – Admin
Facebook Connect has been integrated into ‘*.MrEaster.com – Blog’ . What does this mean? Facebook Connect allows users to connect to websites by using there Facebook credentials. For example, this blog can now be logged onto by registering with the site, or by entering your Facebook login. In addition to easy login access, Facebook connect allows you to post comments to blog entries and update your status (letting other know what you just read) directly from the site you are browsing!
Have Fun,
Mr. Easter – Admin
It is done.! If you pay any attention at all to the footer (bottom) of my web pages, then you have figured out that this site is powered by some powerful software. The main site is powered with MODx CMF, Wordpress, and Zenphoto. Each of them are freely available open source software, heavy hitters in their respective fields, and highly configurable. You would think that making all these run together to deliver a single seamless platform (*.MrEaster.com – home, blog, media) would be easy. Wrong. Very wrong. In the end,
The method that did not work:
<?php
//http://codex.wordpress.org
require('/the/path/to/your/wp-blog-header.php');
?>
<?php
$posts = get_posts('numberposts=10&order=ASC&orderby=post_title');
foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
<?php the_date(); echo "<br />"; ?>
<?php the_title(); ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<?php
endforeach;
?>This (or any form/derivative) will not work inside of MODx because the two will conflict when it come to routine calls and functions. It is explained better here. It does how ever work if you set it aside in its own folder (which is what Wordpress originally said to do). But that is not the way in which it will be used by this site.
The method that does work:
pieX – simple and effortless. pieX is the pluggin version of SimplePie for the MODx system. SimplePie works by displaying the RSS feed of any site that has a one. Bingo! Problem solved. Install the plugin, and effortlessly include blog content (or any content that supports RSS feeds).
So after going through all that trouble trying to get Wordpress integrated with this site*, … do you think I was going to go looking for a hack to include Zenphoto content?** Nope. As luck would have it, Zenphoto also supports the RSS feed method *Yay!* So the same concept was applied when including the content from *.mreaster.com – ‘media’. A method so simple, yet over looked. Check out the integrations on the home page, blog, and media sections of MrEaster.com!
*It was a lot of trouble, and sleepless nights!
**I’m sure there is some easy hack for Zenphoto integration, but who cares, I’ve already ‘found the light’.