• Hi, I have a client that wants to record customer information accounting stats. I dont have a great deal of php experience but if guided can probably get it. I’ve searched for some sort of database plugin but nothing meets my requirementts and the documentation leaves me quite confused with where I specifically put the code.

    I have two tables.
    Table1
    Customer Name, Customer Address, Custuomer contact etcetc
    CastA,123 Road,Mr Man
    CustB,45 Avenue,Mr Jnes

    Table2
    Customer , Year, Assets, Liabilities, Employees
    CustA,2010,15000,16000,25
    CustA,2011,16000,18000,66
    CustA,2012,18000,19000,888
    CustB,2010,500,900,55

    these will be linked on customer name – or id for instance

    What I want is for a visitor to go to a page and have a dropdown on the page (which I cant find any code for) to choose from a list of the available customers from TableA. The page’s first section will retrieve the details from table one, and then underneath, row by row, I want the linked information from Table2

    So output would be

    Cust A
    12 3Road
    Mr Man

    yEAR: 2010
    aSSETS: 15000
    Liabiities 16000
    Employess 25

    Year:2011
    Assets:16000
    Liabilities: 18000
    Employees: 66

    Etc – for eah selection in the dropdown.

    Could someone please guide me how this is achieved please – the main point being how to create a dropdown and pass the values to retiebe the other records for that selected custoer ? And where do I put this code?

    Thankyou in advance for any advice, or for a plugin solution that already exists, Ive searched through many but not found a relevant solution, and yes it has to be done in wordpress as the site already exists.

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