PHP & MySQL Web Development All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies
Chapter One
Building and Processing
Dynamic Forms
In This Chapter
Using HTML forms with PHP
Getting data from an HTML form
Displaying data in a form
Processing what users type into HTML forms
Building the code for a real form
A dynamic Web site is one in which the visitor interacts with the Web
site. The Web site visitor provides information to the Web site in an
HTML form, and the Web site performs actions based on the visitor's information.
The Web site might display different Web pages based on the user's
information or might store or use the information.
In this chapter, we don't tell you about the HTML required to display a form.
We assume that you already know HTML. (If you don't know HTML or need a
refresher, check out HTML 4 For Dummies, 5th Edition, by Ed Tittel and Mary
Burmeister, from Wiley Publishing.) What we do tell you is how to use PHP
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