Help Please!

[Lovebev1]

I have one simple question....I am a baby to this, so I am learning as I go along. Exactly where do I put the PHP script that sends my data from the form to the database. Is it in the beginning or at the end of my form?

Please someone help! Thanks, 🙂

[thorpe]

it can be in a seperate file. say myscript.php. then, you just point your form at it. eg;

<form action="myscript.php" method="post">

[Roger_Ramjet]

Thorpey, I think you misunderstand bev: I think she's asking where in the HTML do I put the PHP :queasy:

Bev, the answer is that you don't. PHP is a SERVER-side scripting language and does not work in the client browser. What you do is as Thorpe sez, you submit the form data to a script on the server 'target="blah.php"' and that script then processes the form data.

[obrienkev]

Yup. So for example you have a form in home.htm

<form action="send.php" name="form" method="post">
<input type="text" name="myaddress" value="" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

When you press submit the form will go to send.php

Then on send.php you first need to declare the variables to be passed into database...

$myaddress = $_POST['myaddress'];

You use the name of the var to pass.

Then you insert into database...

// connect to database
include (db_connect.php);

// perform query
$query="INSERT INTO table values('$myaddress')";

$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

Hope that helps.

Kevin.