Good Morning Reditors. I am 42 years old, and although I did some preliminary coding 20 years ago, I am rightfully, a “newbie”. I am planning to create an application and need some advice. Please do not hate. (Probably you can laugh).
I need some advice.
The functionality of my application is simple.
While I do not wish to provide much detail, in essence, its a website where a visitor to the website, on login, will be presented with a form (with a Submit button) where he will input a string, lets say “Apple”, and then click ‘Submit’.
At the backend, there is a View (formed by joining 2-3 custom lookup tables). The application is supposed to take the word Apple, search the 1st column of the ‘View’ for the word Apple, and if a match, returns the second column of the View, which is lets say is “Apple is a fruit”.
Thats, pretty. much. it. (The actual application looks up on more than one column).
The main constraint is while I have coded using Oracle, Java & JSP in the past, I would very much prefer NOT to code again, especially given the advances the industry has gone through in the past decade.
I need some advice on the direction I was thinking to take:
I have a WordPress site, and My idea is to make use of WordPress plugins for getting the above scenario –
1. I subscribe to two WordPress plugins – WPData Access and Formidable forms
2. I use the WPDataAccess plugin to create my Custom Data Tables and Views
3. I use Formidable forms to allow the user to enter the string, and then in the successive form, do the lookup and show the lookup Value.
Qn: Yes, it is laughable. Something like this should be done with a Developer, MySQL and PHP. But will it work?
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