How is input in form element retrived by the webmaster?
By mdong1
@mdong1 (8)
November 1, 2007 8:08am CST
I've got a new free site which I could edit from html source. I want to add a form element in my site through which I can accept member and get them enter their details. As I have no much knowledge about html language, I now wondered 'Even if I can add a form how will I retrieve it?'.
Can any body made me clear about it ?
1 response
@rezaferry (141)
• United States
1 Nov 07
To add a form and retrieve form data you need to have a server that has a capability to read data. You can't do this via HTML only. Your server must either have a CGI or must have some scripting language like PHP. The data sent from the user will be received by this program (which is usually a CGI-PERL script or a PHP script) and stored.
What is your free site and where is it hosted?
Most simple HTML server won't let you retrieve data. But maybe yours does. If you need to accept members, you will probably need some way of storing the members data. So you may need a database too.
