Title: First Post & Question
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# First Post & Question

 *  [jimfoltz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimfoltz/)
 * (@jimfoltz)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-post-038-question/)
 * Hello,
 * This is probably something obvious, but this is my first wp/php work and I am
   trying to get up to speed. (Is this the right place for this?)
 * I have a plugin that reads from a database table and displays the records in 
   a list. The list has an edit link which displays a HTML form filled in with the
   record’s fields from the database.
 * I am unsure of the best way to get the edit-form values into php in order to 
   perform the sql UPDATE on the table. I don’t want to pass the values in the URL,
   right? What other options are there?

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 *  Thread Starter [jimfoltz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimfoltz/)
 * (@jimfoltz)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-post-038-question/#post-1021530)
 * Ok, so I can just use method=”post” in the action, and point the action to my
   plugin’s form handler php file.
 * Next problem is that I can’t use any of the wordpress functions in the form handler
   file. It’s like the handler file has no idea about wordpress.
 * Not sure what I need to be doing. Any thoughts appreciated.
 * I think I understand the wordpress way of doing things – define some functions
   in the plugin file, call the functions in templates. But it’s not clear how I
   can get html form values into the database using this model.

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 * [sql](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sql/)

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