[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #11549: Enable loading of the WordPress environment from external php script

[WordPress Trac]

#11549: Enable loading of the WordPress environment from external php script
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 Reporter:  mp2300       |       Owner:                     
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Unassigned         
Component:  General      |     Version:                     
 Severity:  minor        |    Keywords:  assign by reference
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 For some integration projects, it is useful to load the WordPress
 environment from an external php script. This can be done by including wp-
 load.php
 Afterwards all the WordPress functions can be used.

 This is only possible if wp-load.php is included from the global scope. If
 it is included from inside a function, it will fail. This limitation makes
 it difficult to integrate WordPress with other projects.

 wp-load.php fails because of the use of global objects and assign by
 reference. A simple solution would be to declare $wpdb,
 $wp_widget_factory, $_wp_deprecated_widgets_callbacks for global in wp-
 settings.php
 The creation of WP_Widget_Factory in wp-settings.php needs to be changed
 from
 $wp_widget_factory =& new WP_Widget_Factory();
 to
 $wp_widget_factory = new WP_Widget_Factory();

 The syntax for creation of WP_Widget_Factory should be conditioned by the
 PHP version, to maintain backwards compatibility with PHP 4.

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