Web-based Searchable Data Base

by rbowen
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(Not sure this is the right place to post this question.)

I'd like to build a data base of items, display it on my WP site, and let visitors to the site search it ... by 'name', 'category', or by 'characteristics' (preferably by multiple 'characteristics, ex. 'widgets', 'left-handed' *and* 'blue'). And I'd like to give 'permission' to certain (paid) users to be able to access their DB entry & modify it. The DB would be small, maybe 100 records or so.

Are there WP plugins for that ... or (sorry, not technical enough to know how to ask this) possibly some kind of scripts or whatever to do this?

Someone mentioned a WP plug-in, 'Table Reloaded', but when I read the description, it seemed to indicate it's just a way of creating & maintaining a table of data - but that I'd need " ... additional JavaScript libraries can be used to extend it with features like sorting, pagination, filtering, and more". Huh?

First, it doesn't seem to indicate a 'search function' would be possible (although 'sorting' is next best thing). And are those Java Script libraries easy to obtain and put into play, or do you need to have some technical/programming skills (that I obviously don't have )?

Any recommendations?

Thanks,
Richard
#base #data #searchable #webbased
  • Profile picture of the author cravereplace
    If you are totally stuck on using WP I have no suggestions. But on Joomla there is an extension called Data Grid that could do pretty much what you're asking.
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