Can anyone give me some advice or any links about this:
I want to incorporate an online ordering app in my WordPress site. Basically I need a form to gather ~12 inputs with a few jQuery components, a database to store the records (with query’s)and a grid view with a details view of those records. I want to use jQuery’s data Grid or APp PHP Grid.
Is WP capable (I’m sure it is ) and what would WP call this feature?
Thanks
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Ha, not even close, my site needs to be able to track shipments proactively. I guess I’m selling something, but it’s service not products.
If you’re selling services, what are you shipping??? You need to provide a better explanation of exactly what you’re selling if you want good advice on what tools to use.
OK fair enough. I’m selling courier services, and I’m looking to implement a tracking service similar to what UPS uses when you track a package using a 1Z number. Those additions to their system denote an update of the package’s status, then when delivered show a POD (prof of delivery).
Sounds like a custom solution… how do you plan on implementing it at the courier level? Mobile app?
Eventually,but that is a while away
It sound like that you need a custom solution and i am afraid that you won’t fine any ready-made solutions for that …
you better hire a freelancer php & mysql coder to give you a helping hand
Go to the plugíns page and search for shipping. There are lots of plugíns created for shopping carts. Although I believe that there is no plugín for what you want, maybe one of those plugíns will help you to get started. Quite a few calculate weights and dimensions and deals with different regions.
As I said, there may be a good starting point. But the thing is that you’re going to customize it because I don’t think that there’s a plugin that tells you the status of your package (delivered, on transit, or whatever)
So, from your statement what I need is to make a plugin? I have already made the three pages, SQL query logic, and MSSQL database, I need in ASP/NET app so I think I can do it in PHP, What I’m asking for is what would WordPress call it, module, plugin, page etc. And how difficult would it be to package my system into whatever WordPress needs it to be?
This confuses me a bit. ASP.NET and PHP are different technologies, I don’t believe you can intermingle the two. You can use php to access a MSSQL database, which asp uses but that is it. What you are asking now cannot be done. If your server is running IIS7, you can install php on it. You may need to look for an asp.net blogging solution.
If you want to have the configuration and control screens together with WP administration pages, it would be a plugin even if you use a second database to keep the data (you are not forced to create the tables into WP database if you don’t want to).
A plugin is basically a module which is integrated into WP interface.
But if you’re going to create a brand new interface which will not be integrated into WP administration area, then it doesn’t matter how your call it because it will be independent.
Plugins are not very difficult to create if you know programming, that is, and you know. If you’re main language is ASP or .NET, it will probably take you a bit of work to change to PHP but it will be fairly easy for you.
I think he was just saying he’s done stuff in ASP.NET before, so PHP shouldn’t be a problem for him to learn.
No, you’re getting me wrong I would just re-write my .NET pages in PHP using the correct server. It doesn’t look to difficult to learn enough PHP to be able to carry out the task. Learning by reading and doing while not having any kind of background is time consuming though, so I’m trying to qualify WordPress. If I can I would then pick up a lot of other coding.
The first URL is my .Net site, and the second is my WordPress site. 6 months to do the .NET, 3 hours to do the WordPress!
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PS. I have found a PHP Grid scrip(APPHP DataGrid looks easy and can make the Grid one column with being able to do a layout in it, the idea would be to display the remaining column as I see fit. EX: Advanced PHP DG code - Customized layout in View Mode New 5th down.
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And also it looks like with PHP if you get in trouble you can just send the code, in .NET it’s not that easy! I did it with two developer’s and both said my Grid ideas can’t be done, then after showing them how a $20.00 package and instructions can do it they both lead me to believe that it would be expensive. After asking someone that has done it he said that if you know PHP and have a DB table you can make a working Grid page in a few hours, but the layout would be a separate issue.
Thanks, but to see if I’m reading you correct can I simply make the pages for the Grid an form in PHP using to appropriate servers and make them WordPress pages? If so I gain a lot, it would give me a sort of CMS that I can twist the way I want I think I saw a WordPress ~CMS with a static home page. I could keep the working grid pages separate from WP that I can write articles in.
Btw, if jQuery would speed things up a bit I would rather use their Grid(not out yet) and combobox w/autocomplete widgets.
I wasn’t exactly talking about this, but yes, you can do it.
yes, in WP you can create static pages or dynamic pages. And if you need something special, it is very easy to create your own dynamic page, even if it doesn’t exist in the original WP theme.
Javscript (even in its JQuery library version) is a valuable tool to make the experience more enjoyable and less painful :agree: but make sure that it works even if Javascript is turned off. 
I wasn’t exactly talking about this, but yes, you can do it.
Yea I know but I twisted your statement to work for me. Sorry if I abused the situation, but today’s forum conversations are really helping me.
yes, in WP you can create static pages or dynamic pages. And if you need something special, it is very easy to create your own dynamic page, even if it doesn’t exist in the original WP theme.
That helps also my working site while in .NET still uses HTML, but I also can keep things simple by using a Google like or simple Apple like ( Apple ) page with three boxes that lead to the differences between being a shipper, vendor, or end customer. And that nav bar is killer, it’s where I got the idea for my site.
Javscript (even in its JQuery library version) is a valuable tool to make the experience more enjoyable and less painful but make sure that it works even if Javascript is turned off.
That one could be real problem I have no idea if jQuery has a fallback! It hasn’t effected me yet, but when dealing with companies their IT may force the issue.
You can abuse the situation as much as you can… I will tolerate that. Now, other types of abuses will not be tolerated (you can look at my code but you can’t touch it! what were you thinking, you dirty mind? :p)
The fallback is that you first code everything and make sure that it works, even if it is a pain, and then you add the JQuery or Javascript functionality to make it smooth and enjoyable.
But if you use something that has been created by someone else, like this grid script you linked to previously, that will be hard to do. Still, you can test it by turning off your Javascript and see if it works, even with JS off.