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Hi, In the HTML forum I asked how I could get the results from a form which I will put on my site via e-mail, I was told:
I was then told to come to this forum and ask about the basics of PHP form processing.
Any help would be appreciated!
Martin
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Give them a form to fill. The form posts to a PHP, ASP, or ASP.NET program that stores the results in the database. You would have a page you could browse to which retrieves and formats this information - no need for any email at all.
Any help would be appreciated!
Martin
Alright, to process a form to a Database is a pretty simple task, however with no experience it's going to be some work. Below is a link I would suggest taking a look at to get started:
http://www.chauy.com/2005/11/php-mys...ta-into-mysql/
Basically the "jest" of storing form data into a MySQL database as follows:
Create a Database and it's required Tables
Build the Form Section in HTML
Process the Form and store info in MySQL DB
Pull information from database and Display it
If you have any questions, just follow up!
http://www.chauy.com/2005/11/php-mys...ta-into-mysql/
Basically the "jest" of storing form data into a MySQL database as follows:
Create a Database and it's required Tables
Build the Form Section in HTML
Process the Form and store info in MySQL DB
Pull information from database and Display it
If you have any questions, just follow up!
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Originally Posted by martinkorner
Hi, In the HTML forum I asked how I could get the results from a form which I will put on my site via e-mail, I was told:
I was then told to come to this forum and ask about the basics of PHP form processing.
Any help would be appreciated!
Martin
this is the html form
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<form action="database.php" method="POST">
firsetname"<br>
<input type="text" name="firstname"><br>
last name:
<input type="text" name="lastname"><br>
<input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit">
</form>
now in this code all this information go to the databse
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<?
$name=$_POST['firstname'];
$lastname=$_POST['lastname'];
$username="your databse username";
$password="your databse password";
$hostname="localhost";
$db=mysql_connect($hostname, $username, $password) or die ("could not connect to database sorry");
$a=mysql_query("insert into tablename(field1,field2)values('$name','$lastname')");
?>
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<?
$sel=mysql_query("select * from tablename");
$n1=mysql_num_rows($sel);
$i1=0;
while($i1<$n1)
{
$fname=mysql_result($sel,$i1,"field1");
$lname=mysql_result($sel,$i1, "field2");
print $fname;
print $lname;
$i1++;
}
best of luck
To aarya,
I tried that but I got this error on submitting the form:
I've probably forgotten to chamge something obvious or sommat like that (but I can't see anything wrong
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Thanks
Martin
I tried that but I got this error on submitting the form:
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Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) in /mnt/storage/users/m/a/r/martinkorner/database.php on line 7
could not connect to database sorry
)Thanks
Martin
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Originally Posted by iammatt
Alright, to process a form to a Database is a pretty simple task, however with no experience it's going to be some work. Below is a link I would suggest taking a look at to get started:
http://www.chauy.com/2005/11/php-mys...ta-into-mysql/
Basically the "jest" of storing form data into a MySQL database as follows:
Create a Database and it's required Tables
Build the Form Section in HTML
Process the Form and store info in MySQL DB
Pull information from database and Display it
If you have any questions, just follow up!
Martin
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