Advanced form help

[DelawareAmerica]

I'll start off by saying I am just trying to learn the web design/development ropes....so bare with me!

I was wondering why type of code is used to make forms that receive information and put it into affect immediately...if that makes sense.

Take for instance signing up for this forum...

I know an auto responder is used but how does it get all your information into place.

I don't even know if this can be answered, since I can barely explain it! But any help would be great.

 

[adam_uk]

when signing up to this forum someone enteres there details into the text boxes, they click submit then the data is sent to the server where a script (in this case php, but others like asp and cgi) will process that data and it will be used in the way its designed for

in the forums case its stored in a database (mysql)

in order to make a form like those need to understand some basic information about what your server supports (for example, making a script in asp isnt going to work if your host/server doesnt support asp)

you then need to understand the code/functions built into the language so you can process the data

i hope that helps a bit

 

[DelawareAmerica]

Thanks, that helps a lot.

Do you know a good place to start learning how to create this advanced form scripts?

 

[adam_uk]

well depends on what your host supports
whether it has php or asp etc

for php though try phpfreaks.com

 

[DelawareAmerica]

Thanks, my host supports PHP so I'll check the site out.