Dynamic Data Blocks

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What I miss most in online HTML editors is adding DB/dynamic content. The way I imagine it is that you insert a dynamic data item and when you click on it it presents you with a list of data item names. Kind of like how form tags and form fields in html work. In the main dynamic tag you select the table/query and key variable and a method such as post or get and the individual dynamic items can be placed around the page to display the db row content.

This would also allow content blocks such as list/table/card/loop where you define your query in the main tag and then create a repeated item template maybe even in a popup sub builder window. This could either be a table row or card layout and on a live load this template is repeated with the selected data. For more advanced cases it should also allow adding code to modify the data values limited by the content block type that is used.

Links can be appended with keys and using a get method can pass dynamic data between pages or posts can allow the addition of form processing and data storage.

Form fields could also be pre-filled this way by adding a plus button to the placeholder input field that allows you to select the value to fill it with.

I could even see a version where DB tables and columns can be created directly in the builder eliminating the need for users to edit SQL code. This feature shouldn't be much more work to add than a form builder but the possibilities it opens up are enormous.

I believe this would be the killer feature to bring wysiwyg editors out of the realm of editing text and into the full blown website builder territory since this addition would allow anyone to build a webapp.