I have a reasonably short term need to move from pretty old ASP.Net pages to WordPress. Put another way, I'm moving them from ASP.Net/IIS/SQL Server/C# to WordPress/Apache/MySQL/PHP.
I am comfortable with the whole ASP.Net postback and codeebehind thing and that's how these pages are written. I have less experience with database development under WordPress and I am hoping for some pointers.
The app itself is reasonably straightforward and I need the following done:
- List records from a database table on a web page. The number is quite small (72 records) and each record just goes in an LI element. So, I need to populate that list when the page is called up.
- A dropdown visible on the page that sorts the result set. This is currently done on the ASP.Net page with an ASPNet postback. The server-side code just looks at a Sort dropdown and adjusts a SQL query accordingly to refresh the list. Note that the roundtrip to the server is perfectly acceptable here
I'm hoping someone could point me in the right direction with the "framework" I need in place here to populate the page when it's loading and also to respond to the postback when the Sort dropdown is selected.
By the way, this is a simple page but, down the road, I will have more complex scenario to expose. I am perfectly OK purchasing a WordPress plugin if that would significantly ease my path.
Any pointers most appreciated.
Thanks.
Mark