Title: Usage Question
Last modified: October 27, 2018

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# Usage Question

 *  Resolved [rjjacob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rjjacob/)
 * (@rjjacob)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usage-question-6/)
 * Everything in your documentation points to a user’s table in a separate database
   but what if we have a separate user’s table with username, pswd, etc., stored
   within the same WP DB? Is that workable?
 * I realize we could just as easily set up an additional DB on the same localhost
   but wondered about this point.
 * Also, would/could this provide functionality for the opposite, i.e., user logs
   into their WP account and has access to cred forms and reports generated by another
   php-driven app?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fusage-question-6%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [tbenyon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbenyon/)
 * (@tbenyon)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usage-question-6/#post-10825302)
 * Hey [@rjjacob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rjjacob/),
 * You can definitely use the plugin to login using a custom table in the WP database.
   You just fill out the details for that db in the settings.
 * Regarding your question about the reverse; a few people have asked about accessing
   additional data from the ‘external db’.
 * This is something that would be so individual to everyone’s usecase and would
   require individual sql queries to be written and then the data that was returned
   would need to be handled and piped in to a custom view. This is very much something
   that you need to have some development experience to be able to do.
 * I have felt before that if you’ve got the experience to be able to render the
   view, you can easily write the way to connect to the db and get the data.
 * However, you’ve made me think that it may be useful if I wrote a function that
   you can just pass an sql query string to that will do the rest of the query to
   the external db for you. It’s not saving developers a lot of time but if you 
   think you would use this, I’ll take the time to add the functionality. Let me
   know if this is the case.
 * Thanks [@rjjacob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rjjacob/),
 * Tom
 *  Thread Starter [rjjacob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rjjacob/)
 * (@rjjacob)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usage-question-6/#post-10932526)
 * My apologies for not responding sooner after your quick and helpful reply. The
   php application I was trying to integrate is displayed in iframes and the way
   I handled the issue was to pass the WP user ID to the frame and that accomplished
   what I needed. However, I have another project where I will be using your plugin
   as it’s perfect for it.
 * Thanks again for your attention.
 *  Plugin Author [tbenyon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbenyon/)
 * (@tbenyon)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usage-question-6/#post-10932769)
 * Hey [@rjjacob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rjjacob/),
 * Sounds like you’re all sorted! Please let me know if you have any other questions.
 * I would be SOOOOOOOO grateful if you could take the time to write a 1 sentence
   review?
 * Thanks,
 * Tom

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