Wordpress - Anyone know a plugin for adding custom forms

[m0l0ko]

I have a wordpress site and I have a database of chemicals, its stored in an external database. I need a custom form for adding new compounds and editing the details of the existing compounds and stuff like that. I need it to be customizable too because I'm gonna need to use javascript to make new fields popup when you click a box etc.

I could program all this myself but I'm looking for a plugin to save me the hassle.

I've been looking into adding custom editors. I keep seeing the word TinyMCE. Whats TinyMCE, is that the default HTML/Text editor that comes with wordpress? Are there different editors that you can install to replace the wordpresses default editor? If so, does anyone know of a customizable one that will let you add your own extra fields and stuff like that? The default editor works fine if I want to edit the information field for a compound, but I need extra fields for editing the compounds properties and stuff like that.

[Uriah]

Hey Moloko. I'm not too experienced in wordpress, as I like to code things myself, but im pretty sure that even with wordpress you are required to program your own stuff when it gets to that level of hassle. Actually, i would suggest doing so no matter what, as it would be a great learning experience, and the things youve named arent very hard to do.
As far as the editor question, if you are able to install a different text editor, you might still need to program the extra stuff yourself, or research some custom add ons for it. If you would like to add on to it yourself, you'll need an open source one, so that you can freely edit the code. It really shouldn't be very hard
From what I know, TinyMCE is a very common text editor, and is probably the default. There are definitely different text editors you can use, or you can code a javascript wysiwyg editor with execCommands.
Sorry that I dont know much about wordpress, but I thought I could maybe help just a bit. Good Luck!

[m0l0ko]

Same here. I usually do everything from scratch but my brother wants me to write some wordpress plugins and since I started playing around with wordpress, I see that its extremely powerful and saves me massive amounts of time. However, its like a programming language in itself, theres massive amounts to learn before you can use it properly.

Yeah this is easy to do manually but my aim is to learn to hack and interact with wordpress, rather than work outside it. Wordpress has its own library of functions that you use to interact with it which is brilliant but unfortunately, its limited so there are various things you can't do with their built in functions. I'm not a PHP expert so I struggle with hacking the wordpress code myself.

[Uriah]

Yeah, I've heard that wordpress can be a learning experience
Well, in that case, all i can suggest would be researching the documentation, or searching for wordpress scripts others have made. Or just learn php.

[m0l0ko]

PHP is my strongest language but not strong enough obviously. I struggle when I need to hack a plugin because there is a lot of code I don't understand. Like you say thoug its a learning experience. Right now I'm trying to get my head around classes. In Java everything is in a class but in PHP I haven't had to use them at all so far.