Integration of wordpress and codeignitor

The world of web technology is ever growing. So to ease the process and to help the developers, lots of built in tools are found on the internet. People nowadays donot want to write codes from scratch. Today i am going to focus on two most popular web technology, the wordpress and the codeignitor.

    wordpress was originally evolved as a blogging engine. A blog is like a diary where you share your experience, views etc. But with time, wordpress has grown up very much and now almost every kind of site could be made by wordpress. Lets be some technical. This work was eased by lots of hackers and genious round the world who dig into wp code and modified it according to their need. Now what we have to focus is that we could make static pages, define categories, sub-categories etc to the posts. The core wordpress codes should not be touched. There is a separate entity called themes which calls the core functions provided by the core engine of wordpress and displays the required contents and menus by calling the functions of wordpress.
    On the other hand, codeIgniter is a framework for php, which is made to ease the development process of a site. It has basic MVC approach. What this mean in simple language is that, there are three basic folder inside the application folder of ci. "model","views","controllers".The model is the folder where you define class to store and fetch data from the database. The views is the folder where you define your view files to display the contents, and the controller is the main intermediate section where you define controllers to process or fetch data from the model and pass to the views.
    Now lets focus on the main point what we are here for. It will be difficult to built any kind of site with wordpress because you donot have full control over the core-engine of wordpress. So it will be easy if you only need the basic functionality provided by wordpress, but if want to extend your functionality, say include a form and process it and then store it the way you want before reaching to other page etc, lots of readings and research has to be done.
    The problem with codeigniter is that you have to do the full coding, and it could take days. Even if that, You might not have full knowledge of what things are to be taken care of while handling the datas, and there are lots of chances of being hacked etc.
    So what we could do is, combine the built in approach and functionality of wordpress and codeignitor. This way, we could have full control of our site with the front end of codeignitor and the back end of wordpress helps to store datas in a grouped form so that required data could be fetched easily. This really make the work easy.
    Lets move to the process of integrating the two. Simply install your wordpress in a folder called 'wp' and get the database working. Then rename the basic 'index.php' file of wp to 'index1.php'.
Then move all the files and folder of your codeigniter folder into the folder you installed wordpress. This should also include the index.php file of codeignitor to be present in the same directory where your 'index1.php' file lies. Now open the index.php file and you will find a require or include function in that file towards the end. Place this code right above that call
    require_once('wp-blog-header.php');
Now go to the default controller and make another function
    public function wordpress(){
        get_header();
    }
Now try typing this url
    http://localhost/wp/index.php/wordpress
if you see the headerfile of wordpress, Congratulations, its working.
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