How to call WordPress functions in a custom PHP script

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I have a PHP script I want to use for creating a new blog in WPMU. I am having trouble calling WordPress functions like wpmu_create_user and wpmu_create_blog.

My hope is to get this script running as a cron job from the command line and pick up new blog creation requests from an external db, create a new blog using the WordPress functions and update the database with the new blog information.

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7 Answers

include wp-load.php file (in the root of your wordpress installation) in your php script file like so, 

require_once("/path/to/wordpress/wp-load.php");

you will have to provide the abspath of the wp-load file, now you can use all the functions of wordpress in your php script

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Following is the code I am using:

<?PHP

require_once ('/path/to/wordpress/wp-load.php');
require_once ('/path/to/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');
require_once ('/path/to/wordpress/wp-includes/registration.php');

do_action('wpmuadminedit', '');

//Code to Connect and Select the external database

//Code to Connect to the external DB and get the new order details: 
NewBlogName=$name and AdminEmail=$email

if ( !email_exists($email) )
        {
                // email does exist, create a new user
                $name = create_name_from_email($email);
                $password = "use a default password";
                $user_id=wpmu_create_user($name, $password, $email);
                create_blog($email, $title, $user_id, $password);
        }
        else
        {
                // user exists, create new blog
                $user_id=email_exists($email);
                $password = "use existing wordpress password";
                create_blog($email, $title, $user_id, $password);
  }

function create_name_from_email ($email) {
 preg_match('/[^@]+)@/',$email,$matches);
 $name = $matches[1];
 return $name;
}

//Creates a new blog, expects user to already exist.
function create_blog($email, $title, $user_id, $password)
{
//Code to Update external DB that the order is in process

    $public = array("public" => 1);
    if (constant('VHOST') == 'yes')
    {
            $newdomain = $domain . "." . $current_site->domain;
            $path = $base;
    }
    else
    {
            $newdomain = $current_site->domain; $path = $base . $domain . '/';
    }
    $domain = strtolower($domain);
    $newdomain = strtolower($newdomain);
    $path = strtolower($path);
    $meta = apply_filters('signup_create_blog_meta', array('lang_id' => 1, $public));
    $meta = apply_filters("add_singup_meta", $meta);
    wpmu_create_blog($newdomain, $path, $title, $user_id , $meta, $current_site->id);
    do_action('wpmu_activate_blog', $blog_id, $user_id, $password, $title, $meta);


    // Update external DB  with BlogUrl, NewBlogName, AdminPassword, 

OrderStatus=Complete.

mysql_close($con);

?>
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