Question

I am very new to WordPress, I have very little knowledge with PHP.
I read about PODS and I know how to create one and use pages / templates to display data.

The issue I am havingis, the PODS I was creating use static data entered via the WP dashboard, what I want is to read data from a database, I am using MySql (same DB that wordpress is using). is there a way to use PODS and read the data from the DB, or wordpress has a better way to handle data coming from the DB ?

Thanks

Answer 1

You should Look into the $wpdb variable (and class)
http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/wpdb

Do remember to declare it a global:

<?php global $wpdb; ?>

I am however not sure what you want.
I advise staying close to wordpress.
If you want to create your own custom post types without using code use moretypes