https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravity-forms-as-a-database-engine Gravity Support Forums Topic: Gravity Forms as a Database Engine en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:22:07 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravity-forms-as-a-database-engine#post-23482 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:15:13 +0000 gingram815 23482@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>David,<br /> Could you point me in the correct direction to learn how I could create the query functionality that Hammish mentioned in the first post? </p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Glenn </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravity-forms-as-a-database-engine#post-17794 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:58:12 +0000 RichardBest 17794@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>You can certainly use it to create multiple different types of post entries, through multiple different forms (or a single form), that are allocated to different categories and the like, replete with custom fields if you want to go beyond standard post functionality. With a quick bit of code in the functions.php file, you can also set up a form to post to pages instead of posts. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravity-forms-as-a-database-engine#post-17793 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:14:16 +0000 hamish11 17793@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Dave and Richard, thanks for the input. Probably best to get my hands on it and play around. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravity-forms-as-a-database-engine#post-17791 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:58:06 +0000 RichardBest 17791@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I guess you could also use multiple forms for different types of data entry in a way that submits the entries as posts and you could then use WordPress's standard search functionality (or a beefed up search plugin) to search for content. Then again, perhaps that's not what you're after. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravity-forms-as-a-database-engine#post-17790 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:50:05 +0000 David Smith 17790@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Right out of the box it would not suit this purpose; however, with some customization it could be configured to perform this task. Bare in mind, the only real value Gravity Forms would add in this scenario is creating a form based interface for users to query the data. The functionality of the query itself would be custom work. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravity-forms-as-a-database-engine#post-17778 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 14:06:41 +0000 hamish11 17778@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hopefully not a dumb question but here goes. Forgetting all the great aspects of interfacing with customers, can I use Gravity forms as a sort of database engine where I create a input form (only accessible by me) to enter data into a database, and then use a form visible to clients to be used as a query tool that would then return results? If so, are there any limitations I should be aware of?</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Hamish </p>