1. What your client has: Server(s) running WordPress Zend Framework
Custom database tables
Non content framework sites w/ custom database tables
What your client has:

2. Sound familiar?

3. How can external database data be efficiently accessed and displayed in a flexible way?
Research Question

4. Your options It is a ... Framework Product Access (external) Databases
Display
HtmlList View Helper
WP_List_Table
Views API
Strengths?
Flexible
Fast & simple
(Extremely) Flexible
So where is the Bottleneck?
Overly flexible
Output options limited
Slowest to set up
Your options

5. The 4 basic steps: Create a typical example (external) database table
Tell the Framework how to access the external database
Query the external database table(s)
Display the data
The 4 basic steps:

6. Set-up Create the example database + table
Install Zend Framework 2 via composer
Install WordPress
Install Drupal 7 w/ Views API via Drush
@todo: link to files
Set-up

7. Drupal Additional Drupal modules: Schema Schema views Schema reference
Chart
… and your custom module
Drupal

8. Mount that database using Zend Framework 2:
@todo: depth-guide/zend-db-sql-zend-stdlib-hydrator.html
Mount that database using Zend Framework 2:

9. Mount that database using WordPress:
@todo:
Mount that database using WordPress:

10. Mount that database using Drupal:
Edit the settings.php
Alternative method is also ok, but
Add the code
Mount that database using Drupal:

11. Query the table using Zend Framework 2:
@todo: Zend/Db/Select
Query the table using Zend Framework 2:

12. Query the table using WordPress:
@todo:
Query the table using WordPress:

13. Query the table using Drupal:
Add a custom module
Use Schema + supporting modules
View the schema
Create hook_views_data instance
Query the table using Drupal:

14. Mount that database using Drupal:
Edit the settings.php
Alternative method is also ok, but
Add the code
Mount that database using Drupal:

15. Zend Framework Resources

16. WordPress
WordPress Resources

17. Drupal
Drupal Resources

18. Thank you About the author: Jeremy Chinquist Programmer for APA-OTS
Experienced Drupalist
(link to Xing / LinkedIn)
Thank you