[DUG-TO] wordpress

[Alan Dixon]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Julian
Egelstaff<julian.egelstaff-lists at freeformsolutions.ca> wrote:
> Julian Egelstaff wrote:
>>
>>Just don't try
>> to get your wordpress pages to appear inside your Drupal website...although
>> they can operate from the same web server, in different folders of the same
>> domain if you want, they cannot interact as applications because they are
>> architecturally designed to be proprietary monoliths with no ability to
>> reach out to other PHP systems.  The fact they're both open source software,
>> written in an open source programming language doesn't change that fact,
>> unfortunately.

I think "proprietary mamoths" is a generalization coloured by your
experience, and the truth is that there are a number of ways that you
can integrate both applications with other applications. But yes, the
fact that they're open source php is mostly irrelevant.

For example - there are certainly things like openID to allow you to
share login credentials.

I do agree that trying to integrate them at any deep level gets
complicated very quickly and difficult to maintain over time, and
migration is usually a better solution than integration.

The lame, but correct statement is of course 'it depends'.

> This brings up the interesting issue of what is the ontological status of
> "website".  Is it the domain?  Is it the software on the domain?  Is it the
> user's experience of the content on the domain?

wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website
claims it's a collection of related web pages, images and other
digital assets with a common domain.

It doesn't say how they are related, and I think that the common
domain is probably not true anymore (e.g. you can get the images and
files served from a different domain and still be the same website).

So i'd say the user's experience is the primary definition, which
makes the whole thing subjective, and of course context-dependent.



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Alan Dixon, Web Developer
http://consulting.civicrm.ca/