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Connecting to External Database in WordPress

Sheuli — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:14:09 +0000

This is possible to use the wpdb object to access any external database and query any table within your WordPress installation. You can even use all the wpdb classes and functions such as get_results.

Example:

$my_external_db = new wpdb(‘username’,’password’,’database’,’localhost’);

$rows = $mydb->get_results(“SELECT * from MYTABLE “);

foreach ($rows as $result) :

echo $ result ->Title;

endforeach;

Javascript Change Font Size

Sheuli — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:27:50 +0000

We are working on a website with a dynamic font size functionality. Do you know that this so useful functionality costs only two lines of code? If you consider the need of people to see larger fonts on your website you can use JavaScript code crated by our web developer.

Change Font Size with Javascript Ready to use code:

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You can use this code on your website, just copy the code and past it into your document.

Web Developer’s Journal: moving vBulletin forums to another server

Sheuli — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:33:25 +0000

Step by step instruction to move vBulletin forums from one server to another.

1. Use FTP or your hosts’ file manager to move all vBulletin files from one server to another.

2. Move database to new hosting. You can create a copy of vBulletin database by using vBulletin control panel for admin.

3. Open up includes/config.php and edit variables:

$config[‘MasterServer’][‘servername’],
$config[‘MasterServer’][‘username’],
$config[‘MasterServer’][‘password’],
$config[‘Database’][‘dbname’].

More detailed instruction you can find at vbulletin.com /….