Custom PHP programming and Elementor

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    bobriccidl · Member ·

    I am an experienced PHP programmer and have written substantial applications with it as a hired programmer. But now I’m entering into the world of WordPress which I’ve only touched on. I hate to admit it but I own a hosting company and we have auto installers. The customers take over from there.

    I have a substantial application that’s dynamically driven by PHP and MySQL-MariaDB. I have already read that WordPress is not able to process PHP in a post box which I interpret to mean a reply box. Or not. Are we talking about a page?

    The application I have requires a membership sign-up and confirmation and then of course password verification. I know WordPress can handle that all on its own.

    Once that’s been inputted the user can then be taken to the page they need to be at which would be a form that initiates a process. The content of the form then parsed of the information, formatted, and then sent to specific members using MailChimp in transactional API mode.

    Premier members will be able to use SMS which will be a process all unto itself albeit minor because it still uses the preformatted message. But that’s where the membership database has to be added to after the user logs in. The basic demographic information can be pulled out of the WordPress database. Easy peasy if I have access to PHP.

    Part of the process reports to Twitter; part of the process reports to Facebook; and part of the process reports to vBulletin. As you can see already that does a lot and to use the word “snippet” would definitely be an extreme understatement.

    But there are many steps in between. There’s also logging of the application that takes place and creates a transmission log page that can be viewed by members at one level and in fine detail by an administrator.

    The point is that it goes in numerous directions and does a lot of things. I don’t know how to accomplish this in WordPress even getting started with Elementor which is new to me. I haven’t even looked at Elementor which I know has a form generator. I know how to write a form with PHP variables in it. I know how to write a handling script for processing. But I don’t know how to do it in WordPress.

    Is WordPress even where I need to be? Or should I just do this stand alone and bootstrap it? There are features in WordPress including plug-in that I very much want.

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    aisajib · Member ·

    Hi there!

    This question is better suited for the WordPress.org support forum. The free and open-source WordPress software comes from WordPress.org and the volunteers/experts on the WordPress.org forum will be able to answer your development-specific questions better.

    On this forum, we primarily help with WordPress.com sites. There are some differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. If you aren’t sure about them, please check the following page that explains it well: WordPress.com vs WordPress.org.

    So, we recommend asking your question on the WordPress.org forum here: https://wordpress.org/support/forums

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