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Hi There,
Would like to seek assistance, if possible that the MS Sharepoint would be the database source of our website? what is the possible risks or impact? what are the things must be considered?
Greatly appreciate your feedback.
If you mean as a store to get some data from to show on some pages, then it can be done with some custom coding.
If you mean that you want to use Sharepoint as the full database system for the website, then sorry but no it won’t work. At all. You have to use MySQL or MariaDB (which is a clone of MySQL). There are no other current options that work correctly.
Short anser? No, you can’t run a WordPress site off of SharePoint.
SharePoint itself is an application server (not unlike WordPress), and not a database server (ie relational database management system). Most SharePoint installations use MSSQL database server under the hood, though there are adaptors for other databases like Oracle Database.
WordPress requires the MySQL database server (or any of its drop-in replacement variants like MariaDB, Percorna, Drizzle, etc): https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/
@catacaustic , Good Day. Thank you for your feedback. However, you mentioned that it is possible via doing a custom code? Can you share where can I review the documentation of that action?. Thank you
@gappiah , Good Day. Thank you for your feedback too and thanks for the suggestions.
I said that you can display some information from it. Not that you could use it to power an entire site. I hope that you understand that difference.
You would need a custom connector between your site and the Sharepoint instance, and that will let you get data from Sharepoint. Then you can use blocks, shortcodes or custom templates to display that information in your pages. You’ll need to figure out the connector yourself, but there’s a lot of resources if you do a quick search for “php sharepoint”.
@catacaustic, Yes I understand the first message you sent. by the way thank you again.
