Hi.

I dont know where to put this post since it covers so many areas.

I have a few queries and i would appreciate it if you guys can help me out.

I am to create a web based application which will need some access to a database. The web page which functions as a user interface will have some 600 text boxes on it.

Here is what i was thinking. php on the server which interact with the mysql database. javascript in the webpage to do all the validation and calculations.

questions:
1. can one get client side php and if you can do you also need to install php on the client computer is the browser already php client side scripting enabled as it is for javascript?

2. can javascript be used to calculate vulues from text boxes in the form on the html document before the form info is send to the server?

3. can i press some button somewhere on the form which will result in php or even java processing being done on the server?

4. can i create an array of text boxes on the webpage, same as in java or vb 6, so that i can use a for loop to process the 600 text boxes and then process them with javascript?

i would really appreciate it if you guys can help me on this. thanks.