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1. sdwood
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,

   I might be barking up the wrong tree here...I currently have a standard PHP application that i am trying to migrate to WP. Chiefly this is so I can manage copy etc via the WP admin console. So i have some pages that currently take HTTP query params which the PHP code uses to lookup a MySQL database, pretty standard fare. So lets say that i have some users and currently a page that looks like /users?userId=143523 is used to fetch the users details from the database and combine this with some static HTML output. What I think i would like to do is have a wordpress template page that will allow me to edit the copy for this page without having to FTP a new copy of the file onto the server.

   So if i had a custom template that renders the copy i want and the links etc i want in a profile page - along with the dymanic database driven content which i will get by looking up the database - is this possible ? For example maybe i could create a new page called users, based on a template called profile-page.

   I guess my question is basically can i do this in wordpress and how would I go about it ? It seems that trying to create a "page" manually for each user using the user-template custom template with a custom field would work, but this wont work when a new user signs up obviously, although i would also like the URL structure that WP would give me for this. Maybe there is something i am not understanding ?

   thanks,
   Steve.

2. vtxyzzy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   It is certainly possible to pass parameters in the URL with WP. I am doing that with categories. I use the code below to add the 'stayincat' parameter to the permalink for a page. The user clicks on the page title and the URL passes the stayincat parameter to the page template:

   <h2><a href="<?php echo htmlentities(add_query_arg('stayincat',get_query_var('cat'),get_permalink())) ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

3. sdwood
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,

   Many thanks for your reply. I think the problem was that when i had a slug e.g.

   mydomain.org/member/?memberId=1234

   I was making URLs like member?foo=bar and it should be member/foo=bar.

   Thanks,
   Steve.

4. vtxyzzy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I was making URLs like member?foo=bar and it should be member/foo=bar.

   Did you have a typo in the line above? It should be member/?foo=bar

   If your problem is solved, please use the dropdown at top right to mark this topic 'Resolved'.

5. sdwood
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Yes - a typo - thans very much for your help.

6. vtxyzzy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You are welcome. Now, please use the dropdown at top right to mark this topic 'Resolved'.

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