Using a Form to Insert Content

[tgh]

Hello,

I'm looking to add a Madlibs-type section to my Web site. Madlibs are basically those stories where you enter a word, such as noun, adjective, verb and then once you click submit, the story is displayed with your words in place. Here's an example:

http://www.mit.edu/storyfun

If anyone has any suggestions on how I could do this, I would really appreciate it. I'm new to PHP and checked hotscripts but couldn't find anything.

Thanks in advance!

[weekender]

it's a piece of pee...

what you need to do is create a table to store the stories... add them into the table with codes to place the variables, such as $pluralnoun or $biganimal

Then, when someone loads the site, read through the story and list all the $variables from the story into an array.

Dynamically create a form which creates a text field for each variable, with the name="pluralnoun" or whatever.

Then post the form into a script that outputs the story. If the $variable names in the story match the field names in the form, the variables will automatically substitute into the when it is outputted.

hope that makes sense to you!

adam