Title: Table data from external source?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Table data from external source?

 *  Resolved [Json Koning](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minion08/)
 * (@minion08)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-data-from-external-source/)
 * Hi Tobias,
    I have a custom table in my WP db called ERA_Data, which gets refreshed
   on a nightly basis via an upload routine. I’d really like the ability to be able
   to output this data on a page, utilising the advanced features your plugin uses–
   like pagination, sort/order columns, search etc. Rather than write something 
   from scratch with $wpdb Is there any possible way to achieve this with your plugin
   at all? Thanks again, Jas
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-table-reloaded/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-table-reloaded/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-data-from-external-source/#post-3192596)
 * Hi Jas,
 * thanks for your question. Unfortunately, this is not possible 🙁 WP-Table Reloaded
   can only use its own data format (which is static), but it can not use other 
   DB tables.
 * For your project, it should be the easiest to use `$wpdb` in a page template.
   You can then of course also add the advanced features (sort, pagination, …) by
   manually adding the DataTables JavaScript library from [http://www.datatables.net](http://www.datatables.net)(
   which is the same external library that WP-Table Reloaded uses).
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [Json Koning](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minion08/)
 * (@minion08)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-data-from-external-source/#post-3192609)
 * Thanks Tobias,
    I thought that may be the case, I’m going to investigate Gravity
   Forms – see if I can get something to work with this. Thanks for getting back
   to me so quickly. Great plugin by the way – I use it on a number of client sites
   🙂 Jas
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-data-from-external-source/#post-3192613)
 * Hi,
 * sure, no problem! I hope that you can find a nice solution for this project!
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias

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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-data-from-external-source/#post-3192613)
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