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I am building a chrome extension which will only be available for people within the company I work for.
The extension needs input – which can be generated with a simple query to a shared MySQL DB server (to which all employees can access with read only permissions).
The question is – since the extension is all client side (mainly Javascript) – what’s the simplest way to access the DB and run the query? Do I have to create a php/java(/…) service which does that for the extension?
You’ll have to create an intermediary web app that will interface with the Database. Then you can make AJAX calls from the extension to your web app’s API, which will in turn query the database and return results.
Chrome Extension → Web App API → MySQL
More info on Chrome AJAX API here