Can I do this in WordPress?

  • I want to make an interactive online scholarship database that students can use to find scholarships that suit them. I want to categorize the scholarships in terms of numerous different criteria, including the amount of the scholarship, the application requirement, required test scores, career/major specifications, gender, race, etc. Can a database interface be designed that would allow students to search the scholarships by these criteria? For example, could there be an entry form (or account logins) that would have the student enter his/her pertinent information and then yield a search result of appropriate scholarships based on that criteria?

    If so, how is this done in WordPress?

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  • phpMyAdmin is only a management tool for a MySQL database. It won’t let you do any sort of set searching. To do anything like that users need to know how to write SQL queries themselves, so it’s really not something that you could ever use for a public-facing project like this.

    Thread Starter jslavin

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    Lastly, what are your thoughts on Joomla/SobiPro for my purposes?

    Thanks.

    I’ve never used SobiPro, and I’ve onyl ever glanced over Joomla coding, so I can’t say what they would be like. it dpeneds on if it will do what you want it to or if you’ll need to do some modifications. Joomla is a fair bit more technical then WordPress so it can be harder to modify.

    Thread Starter jslavin

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    Oh okay. Do you know the answer to my question of if you create the database I mentioned in WordPress, can you export it and import it into a non WordPress website?

    You can. It all depends on how the other database is set up. If you know what you are doing it’s not that hard to create an import and/or export script that will do that for you.

    My best advice for now would be… Go and try a few things. Asking questions on here (or anywhere else) all day is going to give you a few ansers, but so far everything is so high-level it’s hard to give yo a definiativ eansewr because the answer to pretty much everything you’re asking is “probably”. That’s not a bad thing and I don’t want you to get discouraged, but I’ve always found that it’s better to actually try a few things to see what I can and can’t work with and then ask questions when I get stuck so that I can figure out just what I need to do to move on to the next level.

    Thread Starter jslavin

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    I think it makes the most sense to play around with WordPress plugins to see what I can do?

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