How to build a form with php inside wordpress and consume an external database?

[asdriel]

How to build a form with php inside wordpress and consume an external database?
for example I want to search for a student registration number, the system database is on the local server that has access to the net, and my website is wordpress (online), so I need to query it on my external database to present the results on my website

 

[rasesh]

How to build a form with php inside wordpress and consume an external database?
for example I want to search for a student registration number, the system database is on the local server that has access to the net, and my website is wordpress (online), so I need to query it on my external database to present the results on my website

Just make a php file named "external_data.php" with the external database configuration and the html form.
then just process the data.

place the file in public or www directory and you can access it like this.
(www.yoursite.com/external_data.php)

hope this helps.

 

[asdriel]

Just make a php file named "external_data.php" with the external database configuration and the html form.
then just process the data.

place the file in public or www directory and you can access it like this.
(www.yoursite.com/external_data.php)

hope this helps.

Helpeffuly