Output page display to a formated report

[SDyke]

After a user fills in an HTML form can this data be pushed out to a formated report that can be printed? Can someone give me some ideas on how this can be accomplished?

 

[BabyJeffy]

You would ideally process the form submission server side (using PHP for example)... and you could then return a page to the browser formatted with their data in a way that could be printed nicely. There are many other solutions (including creating a PDF server-side etc) but let's start with the more obvious...

First step is to find out what server-side language support is available to you from your ISP (PHP, ASP, JSP, CF etc).

Next step is to become familiar with one (this is relatively straight forward for form processing and variable parsing) and start implementing. There are a lot of good primers for PHP that I have found using Google (and I'm sure there are plenty for the others as well).

Next, direct any specific problems you are having to the forum for the server-side language you are working with (there is a pretty good spread of such forums here).

Ask if you get lost.

Cheers,
Jeff


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