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Hi People,
I've just started looking at concrete5 and have started a "hosted demo". Lets say I have a large product database. I want to either:
- load the database into concrete5, so I can display it, or
- let concrete5 read the database, displaying fields on a page, or
- access the source code of a page, so I can insert my own php commands to access the databse.
Is any of this possible? If so, how?
Really basic question I would have thought, but I can't find anything about it.
Cheers,
Grumble.
I've just started looking at concrete5 and have started a "hosted demo". Lets say I have a large product database. I want to either:
- load the database into concrete5, so I can display it, or
- let concrete5 read the database, displaying fields on a page, or
- access the source code of a page, so I can insert my own php commands to access the databse.
Is any of this possible? If so, how?
Really basic question I would have thought, but I can't find anything about it.
Cheers,
Grumble.
Thanks for the prompt reply. Attempting to follow your instructions, I went to
http://www.concrete5.org/help/building_with_concrete5/developers/mv...
Following the directions here, from the "website view", home page, I clicked on the control "add page". I named the page product_list.php.
Then, in the dashboard->pages and themes->single pages->Add single page, I typed "product_list" (without the ".php" as instructed) and clicked "add".
I get the error:
" The following errors occurred when attempting to process your request:
* That specified path doesn't appear to be a valid static page."
Adding the ".php" doesn't help. So what did I do wrong?
http://www.concrete5.org/help/building_with_concrete5/developers/mv...
Following the directions here, from the "website view", home page, I clicked on the control "add page". I named the page product_list.php.
Then, in the dashboard->pages and themes->single pages->Add single page, I typed "product_list" (without the ".php" as instructed) and clicked "add".
I get the error:
" The following errors occurred when attempting to process your request:
* That specified path doesn't appear to be a valid static page."
Adding the ".php" doesn't help. So what did I do wrong?
You can find several examples of this under the concrete/single_pages concrete/controllers/ and concrete/models for the whole flow of it.