Question

SweetAmona

Hi guys,
I need your help in what I am doing please... I am doing an application using PHP but I am doing the designing things using FrontPage cause it is easier than doing it in PHP and I am using the SWiSH. The question is: if I used a text field or a check box or whatever, how can I declare those in PHP to use them in the coding of my application. I want to store the values of the text fields in the database using PHP code but I don't know how to declare it in PHP after I used FrontPage 🙁

I hope you get what I mean…

((Note that I am a new user of PHP ))

Thanks

😃

planetsim

Errr.. Huh? i dont quite understand. Why do you need Frontpage. Whats the Problem.

You need PHP to do something. Html wont insert to a database. If im right i think you can use frontpage and code PHP in it.

ahundiak

You can create page in Frontpage and then have it post to a php page which in turn can store data in a database. You would have something like
<form action="update_database.php"

The update_database.php wouldn't care if the original page was made by Frontpage. $GET and $POST will work just fine.

But, you probably also want to take data out of the database and add it to the pages generated by Frontpage. In which case, assuming you are determined (or required) to use Frontpage, you need to learn about templates.

There are several articles on this site. Basically, with templates you add special tags to your Frontpage generated html. The php template processor reads in the html and replaces the tags with data.

Weedpacket

If the form uses GET (the default) method, then $GET['checkbox_name'] will be set if the checkbox is selected. If it isn't, it won't. So to see if checkbox_name was selected, see if $GET['checkbox_name'] isset() or not.

Ditto if the form uses POST, but then the array to use is $_POST[].

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