Creating dynamic comparison tables?

Staccs

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I want to learn how to create comparison tables like FindTheBest.com.

I know they put a lot of polish on, but I don't think this is too difficult of a project for a beginner to nail the fundamentals. Am I wrong?

Lets say my niche is water bottles. My (very) limited coding experience tells me I need to input the basic information about water bottles (color, capacity, weight, warranty, lid type) into a database. I also need to scrape the prices of each water bottle on a daily basis. I'd like to be able to make dynamic comparisons where a user can select any 2 water bottles and compare the basic information I stored in the database. Does this sound right?

My last requirement is that I'd like to be able to integrate this into existing Wordpress sites. I don't know if this is a big deal or not.

What do I need to begin learning to get this started? My guess would be Javascript, but I'm honestly clueless. If somebody could give me a quick rundown explaining what I need to learn, I would be grateful.
 


Javascript, a little bit about wordpress/php/mysql to store/get the data from the database. Collect prices/data on a cron job every 6 hours or so would do the job.
 
You don't even need Javascript. PHP / MySQL should be all you need - apart from scraping it's all db lookup really.
 
Javascript, a little bit about wordpress/php/mysql to store/get the data from the database. Collect prices/data on a cron job every 6 hours or so would do the job.
You don't even need Javascript. PHP / MySQL should be all you need - apart from scraping it's all db lookup really.

Thanks guys.

Scrape data, import with WP All Import, use a nice sortable table plugin like:
WordPress - wpDataTables - easy tables in WordPress | CodeCanyon

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