I got that part already finished. I just need the directions to process a form to put it on a webpage.

    OK but seeing your form along with just what it is you want to do with it when you process it would help. Are you going to enter the data into a database or or you going to send an email with the data to your self or what, it is hard to help you with no more than what you have supplied so far.

      OK how do you want it posted? In the form of a table or how. I did look at your soource, and what is your nvform.php doing right now? I would rename some of your input field although they are highly descriptive they tend to be long such as the value of Name would be accessed as $POST['Applicant\'s Name'] because the apostrophe must be escaped or php will think that is the end of the variale I would change that fields name to just name and access it as $POST['Name'].

        OK, I think I got part of it so far. I can use

         <?php echo $_POST['insert name']; ?>.

        That would dispay it right? That where I stopped, because I have no idea how to save this as a file text, html, or php.

          Houdini wrote:

          OK how do you want it posted? In the form of a table or how. I did look at your soource, and what is your nvform.php doing right now?

          Sending me emails.

            As PHP and for mail you need to learn about the mail() function.

              Maybe as text since I can make a script to read from a text and post it, I think.

                You are going to have to save the files as PHP because that is what is going to process the form $_POST variable, PHP will not parse a text file.

                  Houdini wrote:

                  As PHP and for mail you need to learn about the mail() function.

                  I already know the mail function since my current form processor sends me email. I want it to save the form and the user input to a text or better yet a webpage if its possible.

                    Houdini wrote:

                    You are going to have to save the files as PHP because that is what is going to process the form $_POST variable, PHP will not parse a text file.

                    Dang. :bemused: I am stuck now.

                      You can generate HTML with PHP it is great at it, but to include the variable of the posted info the processing file will have to be PHP, you can generate a table and nicely format the output with table headers alternating row colors and all that with php.

                        Houdini wrote:

                        You can generate HTML with PHP

                        Yes, thank you. You have any sites/ tutorials that talk about this?

                        Houdini wrote:

                        .... but to include the variable of the posted info the processing file will have to be PHP, you can generate a table and nicely format the output with table headers alternating row colors and all that with php.

                        Cool, but I just want it plain. Once I get use to it, I will add detail.

                          Wait would I be able to save the html that php generates.

                            You could learn a great deal from this online book Practical PHP (that is the forms section)
                            or you could just output to a webpage by something like the below.

                            <?php
echo "Your Name is".$_POST['Applicant\'s Name']."<br />";
echo "Your age is".$_POST['Age']."<br />";
echo "City: ".$_POST['City']."<br />";
echo"State: ".$_POST['State']."<br /.";
// and so on for all the fields in your form
?>

                              But now the problem is how will it display again. I am guessing I would have to use a database.

                              Nvm its in the online book.

                                Yes is you are going to have a member based site a database is almost a necessity. Therefore the reason for the ppopularity of MySQL. So you need to have a databse with a members table and you would save all the variables from the data entered via the HTML form page into the various table.

                                Suppose you had a table named members and it has the columns of username, age, city,state,country, email,zipcode, and other data, it chould also have a member_id field which is usually auto incremented (meaning that each time a new orw of member data is added it assigns the next sequential number to that new member and ensures that there is a field that is unique..

                                Try going through the link to the book , it is easy to read and has practical examples that is easy to follow and actually do.

                                  I did, but it had nothing about databases, except for one or twice. I have never messed with MYsql, so I have no clue how to do that.
                                  eh... nvm I found it when I clicked content. :p

                                    That book cover just about everything including the PHP 5 use of objects. He doesn't leave much out.

                                      Cool, I appreciate you help. Thank you.