WordPress and Laravel together

Hi,

Background

I'm working on a new project and using WordPress to publish content and would like to use a responsive theme to render the content.

I want to use Laravel to power the custom ecommerce (REST API + billing pages).

I have WordPress working and got Laravel installed inside a sub-folder called /my_api/. WordPress is accessible from http://localhost:1234/ and laravel via http://localhost:1234/my_api/public/

Questions/Things I am not sure of or stuck with

Is exposing laravel like below ok? http://localhost:1234/my_api/public/
Is there a way to load WordPress header/footer from within a Laravel view?

meeshka

10 years ago

Level 5

@phleobon That's right. Researching on better ways to handle this. Maybe I should proxy?! Not sure, proxy may cause session/cookie related issues...

meeshka

10 years ago

Level 5

The more I research and think about it, head-less WordPress and Laravel being the main site handler will be the best approach. Any more insights anyone?

meeshka

10 years ago

Level 5

I tried an alternate method. It seems to work and help me secure non-public directories. Here is the related discussion https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/documentroot-and-public-folder

Comments are welcome.

c19a696

10 years ago

Level 11

Hi @meeshka! Did you try Corcel? http://github.com/jgrossi/corcel .

You can get more information in http://blog.jgrossi.com/2014/working-with-laravel-4-and-wordpress-together/.

Cheers!

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