I’ve a form about some courses registration where the user can select a course, fill in all the required fields, see the course amount that has been calculated and then submit.

The issue is that the courses may vary and also their costs.
I wanted to understand if there’s a way to link the Select to some sort of an external database of any kind in order to retrive the updated list of courses instead of updating manually the form each and every time.
Note that based on the course type (Select 1) there could be further Selects for Course Level and Ages that may or may not apply. (i.e. Kids Course – Age 9-11 – Basic Level ; Adult Course, Advanced Level).

Something like a GET would be nice

Giandani

They would now like to sell copies of specific papers online. I’m planning to extend the external table with a data field containing a Woocommerce product ID and use that as a means of linking a Product Id to many rows of published papers. My thought is that when a customer arrives on a specific paper page it would know the Product Id and that that Product Id could be added to the basket including details of the specific paper.

I’m not sure how best to do this linking to Woocommerce. Can anyone suggest where I start looking please?

I’m currently trying to show data from an external database on my wordpress website. I’m not really new to wordpress but this kind of topic is brand new to me, so I’m a little bit lost here.

So I have a database called “persons” with a table “stats_persons” and I want to grab the “lastconnection” (https://i.imgur.com/FJcGRQR.png) which basically contains the data when the person was last online.

I have created a child theme and within the functions.php it currently looks like this:

$wpdb_b = new wpdb(DB_USER, DB_PASS, ‘stats_persons’, ‘external_ip’);
$wpdb_b->get_results( “SELECT * FROM stats_persons” );

What would I need to do in order to show “lastconnection” data?

Thank you very much!

I have a custom template page which reads information from an external database. I need to try and “inject” some of the external data into things like page title, meta description, socials tags … etc. Is this possible ?

Obviously Yoast outputs the seo tags based on the main settings

Thanks

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wordpress-seo/

What I would like to have is a pie chart to display donations and the remaining amount to reach a goal.

So if the goal was $1000 I could statically display that with a short code like [wp_charts title="mypie" type="pie" data="530,1000-530"]

Now say I have a sql query that returns the amount donated so far (530 in my example).

Do you have any tip on how I could use that variable in my chart?

I saw a previous post about do_shortcode() and using that in the page template, except it’s not clear from the documentation how to do that with a short code with attributes.

Thanks for any insight you can offer me.

jim

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-charts/

I need someone to point me in the right direction. I have some vague ideas about how to approach this but a shove will get me much closer.

I have an ACF form defined that authors have been filling in manually for each post. It gets displayed to readers as a sort of status update at the time the post was written.

The software that is managing that status can output a text file with all of the data I need in it. So, instead of filling in the fields manually, I’d like to [push a button] or somehow get WordPress to go to that file, look for the correct variable names and then copy the values it finds into the form.

This only needs to happen either a) on demand before publication or b) once upon initial publication (not save as draft).

Is there any way of doing this?

I tried with RSS, but I can’t change data format, so I can’t customize data display.

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/contact-form-7-to-database-extension/

In terms of progress, I got it partially working as per example 1 on the support page https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wp-web-scrapper/other_notes so I kow it can work. However this is static data present on every page. I want to access dynamic data that varies page to page depending on the stock symbol submitted.

Specifically, the example given on this plugin page in the section on ‘Dynamic URLs and postargs.’

?“Url should be https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=___symbol___
?get argument for page should be `https://yourdomain.com/page/?symbol=CSCO.O (to get Cisco details)

What’s the “get argument” needed? If somebody can get this working for me I’d be grateful.