How to extract info on form to access database

[DataDuck]

I am looking for info on how to extract data entered on a form on a website to automatically transfer into an access database???

 

[Wullie]

What programming language are you using?

Hope this helps

Wullie

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[feherke]

Hi

With what ? This is not web design question. Post this question in the forum approriate to the used server side programming/scripting language.

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[Foamcow]

To process the information from a form and insert it into a database you need to use some kind of server side language.

Examples of Server side languages are PHP, ASP and ColdFusion.

You will need to combine at least HTML and a server side language to achieve what you want to do. You may also wish to use Javascript to validate input on the client side (and also validate it server side with your chosen language) and possibly employ CSS to style your form.


This is a web design question in it's broadest sense, but the specific answer you are looking for is a server side issue.

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[DataDuck]

Thank you for your responses -- I am using HTML. I guess I thought this was a web question since I am asking how to extract info from a website. If I should be on a different forum, I'll change.

 

[Foamcow]

The point is that you can't do it with HTML alone.

HTML is part of the puzzle in as much as it puts "stuff" on the screen and lets you mark up that stuff to denote what it is.

To process the data and interact with databases etc you need a scripting language. The language is totally seperate to the HTML. All it does is perform scripted actions. One of these actions might be to query a database and another action might be to output the result wrapped in some HTML tags.



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[feherke]

Hi

I guess I thought this was a web question since I am asking how to extract info from a website.

Web site design is about the client side : what and how appears in the browser. Handling data sent by the browser to the server, is server side task. This is another professional's job : the web application developer.

Many of us could help you with any part of the task, but for this you must provide enough information. What is available on the server to accomplish that task is impossible to guess and would be illegal to find it out by other ways.

If you are so beginner, probably the site is not running on your own server. If is hosted by some company, you can give us their URL and we will read what services they provide and will suggest a suitable solution.

Feherke.

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[Foamcow]

Web site design is about the client side : what and how appears in the browser.

Hate to play Devil's Advocate, but Web Site Design should, in my opinion, not just be about the client side. The design of a site goes beyond the visual and as a web designer, even if you only do client side stuff, you should understand what goes on behind the scenes. Having at least a basic knowledge of how stuff happens is just as important as knowing how to make it look nice and work well - it's all part of the same skillset.

IMHO too many Web Designers don't have a clue about back end stuff and their sites suffer because of it.

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[feherke]

Hi

even if you only do client side stuff, you should understand what goes on behind the scenes

Yes, I also think they should. But they do not. And are a lot of tendencies to not involve designers into development. For example encouraging the usage of tag libraries in JSP is motivated with this too.

In some moments I am even disposed to agree with this ideas, but generally I would prefer most versatile designers.

Anyway, I think server side is web site development, not web site design.

Feherke.

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[AtomicChip]

But really...

If I'm allocating the memory for the char* within the class and just doing a strcpy, why would it be bailing when it's trying to deallocate the heap in the crt stuff when I call free() on the null-terminated string?

Oh.. Huh? Where am I? Oh crap... Web design?



Just buggin'

But really... (again)

I'd tend to agree with Foamcow. However, not only for the reasons that he posted (this also speaks more to

Post this question in the forum approriate to the used server side programming/scripting language.

than anything else), but...

What about people who are just starting out and don't have a clue about the individual technologies? (languages, etc.). "Web Design" would seem like a good place to start to me..

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[feherke]

Hi

Ok, (s)he is just starting out and did not had a clue about individual technologies, but now we gave him(her) directions about where to go.

Yes, you are right, this forum is a good place to start. But not a good place to help with web development problems and posting bunches of programming solutions in a design forum.

Would be better to keep each topic in the right forum. This way those who will search the archives 1) will find the answers, 2) will not be served with a lot of off-topics.

Feherke.

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