Title: Newbie Plugin Dev Question
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Newbie Plugin Dev Question

 *  [Jacob Dubail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacobdubail/)
 * (@jacobdubail)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/newbie-plugin-dev-question/)
 * Hey everyone. I’m a newbie plugin developer/tinkerer. I’m trying to get a better
   understanding of PHP and all things WP.
 * I’m working with the Wufoo API and jQuery Wufoo API plugin that Chris Coyier 
   built. What I have so far:
 * 1. Options page – successfully saving options to the DB
    2. Dashboard widget –
   going to feed in Wufoo form info to a dashboard panel. 3. A huge headache. The
   jQuery plugin interfaces the Wufoo API via a PHP Class that pulls static info
   from a config file. What I want to do is set that static data (username/API Key)
   to the options in the DB. I can echo the get_option(); pretty much anywhere. 
   I even wrote a custom query to pull it from the DB.
 * My challenges (are many): I can’t set the username/api_key var to the get_option()
   value or the custom sql query result. I can’t figure out why. Anyone out there
   able to assist? You’ll definitely get credit if/when I get this released.
 * Thanks.

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 *  [mrmist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmist/)
 * (@mrmist)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/newbie-plugin-dev-question/#post-1612175)
 * Moving this to the hacks section, you might get some help there.
 *  Thread Starter [Jacob Dubail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacobdubail/)
 * (@jacobdubail)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/newbie-plugin-dev-question/#post-1612270)
 * Thanks. I’ll do that now.

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 * [jquery](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/jquery/)
 * [wufoo](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wufoo/)

 * In: [Hacks](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/hacks/)
 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Jacob Dubail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacobdubail/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/newbie-plugin-dev-question/#post-1612270)
 * Status: not resolved

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