I have a table that people should be able to type into

[ptukey]

I have a table on my webpage that people are going to be able to submit poems. How do I have the text that they type in that table show up in not the next page but the page after. See I am not a beginner at HTML but I not even close to being an expert. LOL. I know that you can use java scripts, but I do not the appropriate java script and I have looked everywhere. All I want to so is have the text that someone types in my table show up in 2 webpages later, if that makes sense. I can get the submit button work, but the text never shows up in the webpage that I want it to. Please give me some suggestions and if you need to look at the site to get a feel for what I am doing please email me. Thanks for taking the time to look at this and hopefully you can give me the answers that I seek. Oh and could you provide an explaination on how the java script or whatever would work. Thanks again.

 

[dwarfthrower]

>> people are going to be able to submit poems

You're way off base with JavaScript then. What you need is some sort of back-end system to recieve the poems.

JavaScript is a predominantly client-side language. It can't save a chunk of text to your server. You'd need something along the lines of CGI, PHP, ASP or some other server-side process to capture the submission then redisplay it.

Otherwise the poem will never be sent to your server, so you can never display it.

 

[ptukey]

well my roommate has experance in PHP, but what you are saying is that ther is no way in HTML that I can transfer what they type to a webpage? like I said feel free to look at my webpage....

 

[vbkris]

yes try XML.... i know nothing bout it but just that it can do something like this...

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[dwarfthrower]

>>well my roommate has experance in PHP
That's a good start.

>> but what you are saying is that ther is no way in HTML that I can transfer what they type to a webpage?
No, what I'm saying is that without some sort of back-end process (like PHP) you will not be able to store what they send. If there were no way to send what somebody types to a web page, how do you think I managed to answer your first post?

If you have access to PHP on your server, use that.


>> like I said feel free to look at my webpage....

As much as I would love to look at your web page, I don't have the time to type random URLs into my browser in the hope that I'll stumble across yours. Perhaps a link would speed the process.

 

[ptukey]

revolution.bossig.com/~ptukey
then on your left click "clic here to submit poems, then type somthing click submit and follow the links.

 

[dwarfthrower]

Very nice.

You will need to redirect the [tt]action[/tt] attribute of your form to whatever PHP code you happen to write. The back-end would then write the code to a data-store. Some other code would then retrieve it and display it to the browser.

 

[ptukey]

very nice you think so? umm i do not know any PHP? I was hoping that HTMl would allow me to do what I wanted.

 

[simonchristieis]

You could transfer information between html pages using get method when posting the forms - this would attach a url parameter to the target which could be retrieved by some javascript, however there is a limit on how much information you could send using this method, i believe it is aroung 2000 characters, however as dwarfthrower was saying - perhaps your best option would be to use a simple xml file to store the information.