I’m developing a car buying and selling website in php, currently what i’m planning is all the pages and the blog will be done using wordpress and other functionalities i’ll develop as independent application and will connect it with wordpress using the function.php file. Only user management and posting for page and blog will be done by wordpress.
Including the database table will be custom. Is this a good idea? Will i get into any bottleneck?
Admin will only be uposting to news. Users will post their cars for sale after login. They can search and rate also…
What do you mean by “connect it with wordpress using the function.php file”?
I’ve delevoped http://storelocator.no on top of WP.
I’ve created WP templates which have custom code and retrieves data from it’s own tables. This way I can create pages in WP and select which template to use. Good for page navigation.
As for pages that is completely separeted from WP, but you still want to use WP functions, just include the following at the top of the PHP file:
You can use WP function to validate data instead of creating your own validation code (you can save time here). See available functions here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_template_directory_uri