Question

I got two projects running, both written in PHP. Now I want to merge these two projects. The first project is a CMS and on a specific page i will display the contents of the other project / application. I don’t want the first project to know about, or get access to, the variables and functions in the other and vice versa. So i just want the CMS, the first project, to receive the contents of output of the other project.

I don’t want to make another http-request – using get_file_contents or cURL because of load-time. I find passthru() and system() hard to get working, but if that is a possibility, please teach me the way.

I also need to pass some variables from the first project to the other on execution, controller_id and model_id.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT:
Iframes and load via javascript is not an option in consideration of accessability guidelines.

Answer 1

You have several options you already discarded:

• server side integration at code level (include, etc…)
• server side integration via curl

You should therefore probably rely on client-side integration:

• load content via AJAX (best option for me): see Jquery load function, for example. You can pass any parameters, and data, and everything should work
• load content via iframes