Symfony 2 application with Wordpress as CMS

Question

I would like to build a sf2 application and maintain all the content ( categories, articles, pages, media, etc ) in WordPress with internationalization ( wpml plugin ). The app would have it's own admin and for managing the content the user would log on to the WordPress backend.

My plan is to have a sf2 controller backed up by the routing system and give it the first chance to identify a route and do its thing. If not it should then let WordPress handle the rendering of the page.

I also think that I will need to pull WordPress content in some sf2 pages like the homepage where I may want to put the newest articles alongside sf2 content.

Has anyone ever done this before? Pros and cons? Suggestions on how to implement this? Thanks!

Answer 1

Have a look at these two projects which are approaching the Symfony-WordPress integration from different angles:

• https://github.com/ekino/EkinoWordpressBundle provides a way to use Symfony components and services in WordPress
• https://github.com/outlandishideas/symfony-wordpress-edition provides a way to load WordPress core into a Symfony app (disclosure: I am the main author)