Connect database to wordpress

  • Resolved m3110w

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    9 years, 4 months ago

    Hi All, I’m new to wordpress and I’m helping a group build a new website. Our organization offers training events in many cities in India. We would like to have an interactive database connected to our site. We want to have a page where a visitor can select a city, event type and date range and in return they’ll get details on the upcoming events in their area.

    What are the usual best practices way to add an interactive database to wordpress? Caspio is one option I looked at. I googled and searched other plugins and found some items that look somewhat useful.

    We (the WPress site admins) would populate the database with Event Types, Dates and Locations.

    https://www.ishayoga.org/Schedule/Yoga-Programs This page is a good example of what we want to create.

    Your input on this most appreciated. Thanks.

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  • I would stick to using the same database where you have installed WordPress. You can create a new database table to house your custom entries. Also, this way, you can use the available WordPress functions to facilitate your code.

    Then, you can create a page template to use for your visitors. On this template; you would code the page to your liking. This would include the user selection options; as well as displaying the results.

    Thread Starter m3110w

    (@m3110w)

    OK, thanks. Kind Regards,

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