Forms and Posting

[ShadyMilkman18]

Hey. I'm looking for a script of some kind (PHP or CGI) that will allow users to fill in a set of forms and then post them to a page. What I am basically trying to do is set up a type of address book, where all the user's entries will go to a page, viewable to all. PHP is prefered, although I do not have the ability to create databases in mysql. Thanks.

[jonsof]

So, why don't you try to learn about creation of a database on Mysql?
There is a brief tutorial-document in mysql site.
It will help you!

[ShadyMilkman18]

Originally posted by jonsof
So, why don't you try to learn about creation of a database on Mysql?
There is a brief tutorial-document in mysql site.
It will help you!

I don't have that kind of access on my server. I actually can't create the database.

[AMV]

If you don't have a DB to use, just go with a flatfile. This can be done in a number of ways, but the easiest would be a line break-delimited ASCII file, such that records look like this:

Record0
Record1
Record2

By separating each record with a line break, you can use fgets () to read a record in a single call (since fgets () reads until the specified string length or the first instance of a line break character). Whenever you write to the file, make sure to use the ASCII append mode ('a'). This way whenever a new address (or whatever) is added, it'll be placed at the end of the list rather than overwriting the existing data.

[kinadian]

Using the flatfile you could also delimit the record entries (Name, address, phone number, etc) with a comma. Then you can explode the string using the comma delimiter to create an array. This will allow you to format the results any way you want to.

--kinadian