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Asked: 2026-06-05T06:52:14+00:00

I’m currently embarked in my first web project, and I think I may have

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I’m currently embarked in my first web project, and I think I may have taken on too much without the proper experience in PHP + WordPress.

What I’m trying to achieve with this project is to have a website where we have two different users, and 1 user can post custom post types through a form, while the other user can view them in a custom feed for that post type. I’m using WordPress as the CMS, and I’ve tried to solve this problem using WordPress and Custom Post Types. What I realized though, is that it still required a fair amount of PHP experience to put the Post Type in the WordPress loop and display it with the right information.

Someone told me that I should be able to go around WordPress, work in the backend and create everything there, so I connected to the MySQL Database and made some variables for the information that I wanted in my post type.

I have three files this far:

The template file for the submissions:

$
<form action="http://videsignerweb.no/postform.php" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" id="oppdragform">
            <input type="text" id="oppdragtittel" name="tittel" />
            <br>
            <select name="oppdragstype" id="oppdragdropdown">
                <option value="idephoto">Idé til Photoshop</option>
                <option value="idehtml">Idé til HTML/CSS</option>
                <option value="ideword">Idé til WordPress</option>
                <option value="photohtml">Photoshop til HTML/CSS</option>
                <option value="photoword">Photoshop til WordPress</option>
                <option value="htmlword">HTML/CSS til WordPress</option>
            </select>
            <br>
            <input type="radio" name="seo" value="Ja"/>Ja + kr 4000,-
            <br>
             <input type="radio" name="seo" value="Nei"/>Nei
            <br><br>
            <input type="radio" name="java" value="Ja"/>Ja + kr 1500,-
            <br>
             <input type="radio" name="java" value="Nei"/>Nei
            <br>
            <input type="file" name="psdfil" />
            <br>
            <input type="textarea" name="prosjektinfo" value="" />
            <br>
            <input type="date" name="dato" value="" />
            <br>




            <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Last opp ditt oppdrag" />

        </form>

The postform.php:

 $
 <html>
 <body>
 <?php
 $connect = mysql_connect('videsignerweb.mysql.domeneshop.no', 'videsignerweb', '25zscHxj') or die ("Connection Faliure");
 mysql_select_db("videsignerweb") or die ("Database failure");

 $tittel = $_POST['tittel'];
 $oppdragstype = $_POST['oppdragstype'];
 $seo = $_POST['seo'];
 $java = $_POST['java'];
 $prosjektinfo = $_POST['prosjektinfo'];
 $dato = $_POST['dato'];



 echo $tittel;
 echo $oppdragstype;
 echo $seo;
 echo $java;
 echo $prosjektinfo;
 echo $dato;
 move_uploaded_file($_FILES["psdfil"]["tmp_name"],
 "uploads/" . $_FILES["psdfil"]["name"]);



 $filelocation="uploads/" . $_FILES["psdfil"]["name"];


 $queryreg = mysql_query("INSERT INTO oppdrag VALUES ('', '$tittel', '$oppdragstype', '$seo', '$java', '$prosjektinfo', '$dato', '$filelocation')");


 if ($_FILES["psdfil"]["error"] > 0)
 {
 echo "Error: " . $_FILES["psdfil"]["error"] . "<br />";
 }
 else
 {
 echo "Upload: " . $_FILES["psdfil"]["name"] . "<br />";
 echo "Type: " . $_FILES["psdfil"]["type"] . "<br />";
 echo "Size: " . ($_FILES["psdfil"]["size"] / 1024) . " Kb<br />";
 echo "Stored in: " . $_FILES["psdfil"]["tmp_name"];
 }
 ?>
 </body>
 </html>

and the Template for displaying the post types:

 $
 <?php
        $connect = mysql_connect('videsignerweb.mysql.domeneshop.no', 'videsignerweb', '25zscHxj') or die ("Connection Faliure");
 mysql_select_db("videsignerweb") or die ("Database failure");


        $sSQL = "SELECT * FROM oppdrag";

 $rsResult = mysql_query($sSQL);

 while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($rsResult))

 {




 echo ("

 <header> {$row['tittel']}</header>
 <article> <br/>
 {$row['info']}

 <br/>
 {$row['type']}Ü

 </article>
 <footer>{$row['dato']}</footer>


 ");





 }



        ?>

If anyone could help me with this, I’d be eternally grateful, I’m really unsure where to go from here, and I’m having troubles finding the right information through search.

Cheers,
Michael

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  1. Editorial Team

    The key statement is this:

    What I’m trying to achieve with this project is to have a website
    where we have two different users, and 1 user can post custom post
    types through a form, while the other user can view them in a custom
    feed for that post type.

    By “user” do you mean the people using the admin section of the site, or the user groups who will use the front-end of the site?

    For most things WordPress related you shouldn’t need to be playing around with SQL statements at all and be using built in wrapper functions instead.

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