Using Backend SQL database to pull info onto page??

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Using Backend SQL database to pull info onto page??

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is it possible to have a backend SQL database (member directory for my schools for example) and set up a search page (with drop downs perhaps) where a page visitor could "search" and have info from the backend database pulled onto a page?
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not really sure what you mean, but you can always create user defined tag and do anything you would normally do with php (well maybe not everything but a lot)

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Are you talking about a pre-existing database? or something yet to be setup.  if it's yet to be setup, check out formbuilder/formbrowser.  They're in beta right now, and require 1.0 but they're for "user defined databases".
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Re: Using Backend SQL database to pull info onto page??

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I am talking about pulling info from a already created mysql database. Can one of the pages pull that info?


for example, I have a db set up with different schools names/emails/etc. Can i set up a search db on a page that will pull that data from the db as results?
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If I'm right it could be done with sql tag

http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/sql/
Last edited by cyberman on Wed Aug 09, 2006 1:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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