[Plugin: WP-Table Reloaded] [Plugin: WP Table Reloaded] Manipulatin Data inside the tabel
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Hello Tobias,
first of all thanks a million for this wonderful plug-in, it is one of the best plugins I have ever used!But I have a question to which I didn’t find any info in the documentation, FAQ and forum so far (pls. forgive me if I oversaw something ;-):
How can I manipulate the data inside a table from “the outside”, i.e. a PHP script running on the same server?
I couldn’t find anything related to my data in my database, I guess the data model is well hidden within wp db structures…So what I would like to know is how I can modify the data of wp-table-reloaded tables within my DB, so it stays there persistently.
Here’s what I try to do (just to add some background to my question): I’d like to build a product comparison table on my website https://www.technoviel.de, which should among many other data fields include the current price of a product. To keep this up-to-date, I plan to tap a few external sources to retrieve current prices. As these requests will consume time for each single entry, I don’ want to perform them live, while the table is loaded or displayed, but asynchronously (i.e. once an hour or so) and update the actual table content. I am also considering further use cases, like a script comparing my table to product lists of shops to quickly spot new products that I need to add to my list.
PS: I tried building this independently of your plugin with datatables, but had to learn that the integration into WP is much more complex than I thought (hooking into the meta tags of the page, for example…) – it would be a pity to re-invent all the great work you have done already ??
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