Form action

[Boudga]

I have created a form and I want to assign an action to the form tag so that when my query is submitted it uses PHP to interact with my mySQL db...

I know how to make the mySQL connection to open the db but I'm unsure what to put in the 'action=""' statement for the form...

Can some one post a simple example?

Boudga

[leatherback]

Hi,

Basically the action would be the page where you have the script which willd o the database querying:

<form action="insert.php" method=post>
<input type="text" name="firstname">
<input type="submit">
</form>

insert.php:

<?

// .. $database handles

$firstname = $_POST['firstname'];

$insertquery = "insert into mytable (firstnamecolum) values ('$firstname')";
$result = mysql_query($insertquery);

?>

J.

[kevinsequeira]

<form name=test method=post action=page.php>
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</form>

//page.php

do php stuff

reg
kevin

[Boudga]

Thank you very much for your assistance...that makes sense and gets me rolling again on my simple project!

Boudga