Ever wondered how you can use a form to log someone in, or get information from the user and drop it into a database? This is a good example of how to get all of the info from those elusive cells. It also shows you how to make sure that they don't leave a field blank.
Every now and then for some reason a user will feel compelled to send a message to a webmaster. By using a form this makes the process much easier from both points of view. The user does not have to search for an e-mail address and open an e-mail client, and the webmaster is presented with a relatively well formatted message.
This set of functions allows you to use simple PHP commands to generate complex forms containing many different inputs. It automatically outputs the HTML code for the form and makes it easy for you to process the input when the form is submitted.
This is a basic, and very easy to understand,
tutorial on how to make one file to do it all--
Shows the contact form, then upon submit,
will automaticly update the page with a message,
while PHP sends out the email.
Learn how to create an HTML form and how to program a simple PHP page to process the information of that HTML form. A basic knowledge of HTML will make this tutorial easier.
Intended for programmers interested in experimenting with complex user interface elements, this tutorial explores using PHP to generate JavaScript based on data in a database. This tutorial explains a class called chainedSelectors. This class helps you create a SELECT form field that automatically updates the value of another SELECT using JavaScript. PHP is used to retrieve the values for the selectors from a MySQL database. This data is then used to create a JavaScript function that's triggered when the value of the first selector is changed.
In this code sample we will converting all applicable characters to HTML entities using htmlentities(). Using 'htmlentities' all characters which have HTML character entity equivalents are translated into these entities. .
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