Case in point … looking to have one input field, one output field and one button that passes the value from the input field to a Server Side PHP script that accesses data in a table and returns the value to the output field on the WP Page
Is a WP PAGE a Server Side Wiget or is it a BROWSER/Client Side Widget?
I downloaded a number of so called form builders even paid to upgrade one of them … none of them appear to provide what I consider a simple call back option on their submit buttons
Using some PHP plugins, I have been able to get the DB function working but the issue appears to do with linking Form input to Function back to Form Output … fnGetCalc will return the correct value to a Client side PAGE but I don’t know if WP and or the PHP plugin is using AJAX behind the scenes to do this trick … Tried putting the code below in a PAGE but it doesn’t work … if I use something like VFB Pro, even though they have HOOKS, I haven’t figured out how to turn off the EMAIL feature and or link the Form Values to what I expect needs to be an AJAX callback … the page I am working on isn’t published so have nothing to link here.
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<style>
.error {color: #FF0000;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php
// define Variables
$Dta = $DtaError = "";
if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST" {
if (empty($_POST["Dta"])){
$DtaError = "Dta Required";
} else {
if (len($_POST["Dta"]) = 1){
$DtaError = "Need at least 2 characters for calculation";
} else {
$Dta = trim($_POST["Dta"]);
if (!preg_match("abcdefklnpwxyzABCDEFKLNPWXYZ"){
$DtaError = "One of your characters is not valid";
}
}
}
}
?>
<h2> Calculator </h2>
<form method="post" action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); ?>">
Dta: <input type="text" name="Dta" value="<?php $Dta; ?>">
<span class="error">* <?php echo $DtaError; ?></span>
<br><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Calculate">
</form>
<?php
function fnCalc($v, $l) {
global $wpdb;
global $table_prefix;
$t = $table_prefix . 'Data' ;
$r = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT V1 FROM $t WHERE D1 = '" . $v . "' AND D2 ='" . $l . "'");
return $r;
}
echo "<p> $Dta </p>";
$x = $Dta;
$rtn = fnCalc($x,'C');
echo "<p> Entry {$Dta} returns {$rtn} </p>";
?>
</body>
</html>
Is a WP PAGE a Server Side Wiget or is it a BROWSER/Client Side Widget?
Are you referring to a plugin by the name WP Page Widget?
If so, I recommend asking at https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/wp-page-widget so the plugin’s developers and support community can help you with this.
]]>The PAGES Text/Visual appears to be a WP native Dashboard feature (PAGE vs POST) … uses wp-content/themes/<some_theme>/page.php as its template … If I drop a line of HTML source or a shortcode on the PAGE, the entry is turned in to a fully formatted HTML page when the Client browser connects. That part of the process is clearly a Server Side process … what isn’t clear is if Form, shortcodes or HTML are NAILED up (connected) to the Server Side via some background AJAX process or if there needs to be some Special code to set up a Call back function to pass back and forth data.
Installed MAMP under windows along with the latest version of WordPress with NO plugins installed and PAGES is part of the generic WP Dashboard.
WP appears to have an API which might be something to explore further.
]]>Hope somebody else can chime in.
]]>Could you explain what you’re trying to do with real context rather than input fields and output fields. We could spend ages helping with your solution, but it may not be the right solution to your problem. I believe this is sometimes referred to as the x/y problem.
Remember that WordPress out of the box is designed to be used by people who don’t necessarily know what a database is, or how to write values to it. You can certainly still do this in a WordPress site, and just like with any other tool you’ve used there’s some reading to do first to get up and running. Check out the Codex for WordPress documentation. There’s a good explanation of the database in there too.
If you’re looking to build an application inside WP, then something like ProdPress or Pods may help.
But I say again – let us know what you’re trying to achieve and you might find that someone has already done it and you don’t need to re-invent the wheel…
]]>1) all wordpress pages are treated as posts with all content contained in SQL tables
2) embedded short codes trigger WP to let plugins inject their view of the world
3) when a page is requested, WP builds a dynamic folder as wp/<dynamic page folder> then builds an html page based on the content of the page record using that dynamic folder for the pages url … a high level:
– the page record does appear to allow; HTML, PHP, JQUERY, JS, AJAX etc. commands (although this appears to come with some hidden restrictions)
– WP appears to take control over things like url content so for example a raw jquery load() will not accept an absolute url (proved this by reviewing the unix logs) … to actually use the load(), one has to use relative url references … so if you were needing to run or access a file stored in wp/somefolder/somefile.txt you would need to reference it as ../somefolder/somefile.txt
4) from past experience, all client side interaction with server side processes and data is best handled via AJAX call back functions … so … without using a plugin, that will require investing a bit more time playing with something like jquery’s AJAX interface.
Perhaps WP would benefit from a library of things
]]>A simple jquery example that dynamically adds rows to a form works as designed outside WP but fails to work from inside WP (when coded in MAMP index.php this allows dynamically adding 5 rows … HOWEVER … from a MAMP WP page, this content does nothing) … the expectation is the #add jquery code should be a client side action which appears to be supported by the content of the viewed client source.
There are numerous discussions about adding jquery functions to a theme’s functions.php file by both registering and enqueing them … I expect all theme processing would be related to server side so not following the need to enque a client side action. I ran a simple test that shows the $(‘#<field>’).val() jquery command works in WP so perhaps the append() command needs to be modified slightly to work with the associated WP page?
<html>
<script
src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(e){
// vars
var p = '<p /><div> Test: <input type="text" name="Test" id="childTest" /> <a href="#" id='remove'> - </a></div>';
var m = 5;
var c = 1;
// add
$("#add").click(function(e){
if(c <= m){
$("#container").append(p);
c++;
}
}
); // add
// remove
$("#container").on('click','#remove',function(e){
$(this).parent('div').remove();
c--;
}
); // remove
}
); // document
</script>
<p />
<div id="container">
Test: <input type="text" name="Test" id="Test" /> <a href="#" id="add"> + </a>
</div>
</html>
var p = '</p>
<p />
<div> Test: <input type="text" name="Test" id="childTest" /> <a href="#" id="remove"> - </a></div>
<p>';
which isn’t what was coded.
]]>What are you trying to achieve? What will your visitors get from your website?
Could you explain what you’re trying to do with real context rather than input fields and output fields. We could spend ages helping with your solution, but it may not be the right solution to your problem. I believe this is sometimes referred to as the x/y problem.
If you’re doing this purely as a learning exercise then I suggest you start with the codex and then once you have a better grip of what WordPress is and does, feel free to pop back here or somewhere like StackExchange.
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