Hey, So I know wordpress is built with a user capability, but what about databasing custom user data?

[TylerAbernethy]

Hi everyone, so I am working on a project with a friend of mine, without getting into too much detail, here's the problem.

We need users to sign in, then for instance, click a button, and then have that action record a value of 1 in a database on our server (preferably accessible through the wordpress admin interface, and in .csv format so that we can make it easy to work with)

Any help with databasing, or if wordpress is already built with SOME database technology, etc, etc

For instance, SEOmoz's "mozpoint" system..

Wordpress comes built with the ability for users to log in and have profiles with special access, etc, but does it have the ability to log points and values to a specific user as well?

Where should I look?

What should I google to figure out options?

Who could I call / hire?

[Marcus_Miller]

Hey Tyler

Check out Cubepoints: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cubepoints/

This is a user based points management system where users can earn points for specific interactions with the site such as posting blog comments, logging in etc. It is modular and easily extendible so even if it does not everything you want it is likely 90% there so with some gentle hacking it could be easily extended to do just about anything from a user points perspective.

You could always build something from scratch as a wordpress plugin but I would certainly take a look at this as a starting point as why reinvent the wheel!

Hope that helps buddy!
Marcus