Database connection

hello,

is it possible to have a database connection into Squarespace site?

I'm thinking of using a standard SS template for 80% of my website but also require some custom code to connect to a database.

Is that possible?

regards,
Vasco

Since Squarespace doesn't have a customizable backend, you won't be able to write code to connect to a database the way that you might traditionally do so for a web application.

If you need to read data from a database, the best option would be to expose the data via a HTTP REST API and then use Javascript's XMLHttpRequest in Squarespaces code injection to fetch the data and display it in the page.

You can see the (better) answers to a similar previous question here 

Yes, it is possible. Many medical centers are now using similar databases. It works as cloud storage and is used for stocking the case management of the patients. From the beginning, I thought that this is not necessary, but I didn't think a lot about its advantages. First of all, it increases the security of the information about the patients. Only doctors with special passwords will be able to access the information in the database. Also, digital record-keeping decreases paperwork, so medical centers won lose space for storing those papers.

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On 11/16/2020 at 5:48 AM, VascoD said:

hello,

is it possible to have a database connection into Squarespace site?

I'm thinking of using a standard SS template for 80% of my website but also require some custom code to connect to a database.

Is that possible?

regards,
Vasco

You need to do access your database off-site, or if the data is not too complex, access the collection data in json format may good enough

View JSON Data — Squarespace Developers

Did this ever come to fruition? Would love to see how it came out!