By Jonas E on

Hi everybody, I have a Drupal system which has a heavily customized search engine. I would like to offer the search as widget for Wordpress. We've successfully created the code (blog.planetabroad.com -> right hand) and it works great as long as the wordpress installation is on the same server as Drupal (because I have to include bootstrap.inc so I use chdir($drupal_path));

Now - the question is how can I get this widget to work from other peoples' servers? I tried creating a php script which just includes bootstrap.inc and calls drupal_bootstrap but even for that I have to be on the same server in order to properly include it.

Any ideas/comments/links?

Thank you very much in advance.

Jonas

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Jonas E’s picture

Jonas E commented

Is this the wrong forum or didn't anybody ever try this before?

Thanks,
Jonas

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bsenftner commented

Have you had a look at the Services module?
http://drupal.org/project/Services

A standardized solution of integrating external applications with Drupal. Service callbacks may be used with multiple interfaces like XMLRPC, JSON, REST, SOAP, AMF, etc. This allows a Drupal site to provide web services via multiple interfaces while using the same callback code. This is similar to what Flickr provides with their Flickr API Services.

-Blake
www.BlakeSenftner.com www.3D-Avatar-Store.com

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Jonas E commented

Thank you for that, looks very interesting - a bit heavy weight for now but definitely highly interesting for the future.