Way to save the current html files form entries including the form itself

aewarnick

I am trying to develop paper work (or should I say, less paperwork and more computer work) for my company. I want to use html as a documenting system offline (this post has nothing to do with online anything).

Here is what I need: A very easy system where people can just press a button on the page and it will update the current file and also send a copy to another folder for backup and verification purposes.

I want to use text boxes, check boxes, drop down boxes and probably all the others you normally see on a form. All the information that they type has to be saved along with the html document so that the saved file lookes exactly as what they see on the html page when they are done inputing the information.

About the saved file backups:
They would need to be numbered 0001 and the next time save is pressed; 0002... and so on.

lurius

Check these:

for getting the content of the html-page:
http://www.fi.php.net/manual/en/ref.outcontrol.php

and for saving them:
http://www.fi.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php

Not really helpful, but guiding to right direction (I hope)

-Lurius

aewarnick

I don't know anything about PHP. Maybe I should start there first. Those pages gave all of these commands and kind of what they do but I have no idea how to use them.

To use PHP do I need some kind of server? I want to do this offline with individual computers non-networked. I hope I do not need to install some special software to use PHP. I hope everything centers around the html pages. Please answer back.

aewarnick

can someone answer my curiosities above?

aewarnick

Could someone please answer?

stolzyboy

you need to install either php and apache (free), or php and iis (comes with win 2k)on those machines

aewarnick

I really don't want to use any side running programs. Do you think there is another way?

Twist

Sound like you want some sort of groupware type application only without it being groupware. In many ways I would think that Word or WordPerfect or some other application like that is all you need. They have HTML export and autobackup features. You might try searching www.download.com or www.versiontracker.com for what you want.

I can tell you that PHP isn't really what you are looking for though. If you don't have it setup and running on every machine then it has to be setup and running on a server machine with the other machines connected to that machine through a network (local or internet).

aewarnick

Do you think it would be better for me to learn c++ or visual basic? Another question; Can c++ do everything visual basic can do + more?

Twist

Learn C++. It is more powerful and crossplatform (never know you might need to develop something for Linux or Mac OS someday).