Form Processing

Dennise

Can someone please confirm my understanding about form processing? Taking a PHP approach is the following true?

1. The form itself can be all hTML and not contain any PHP code.

2. The actual form processing (including sending form contents in an email) assuming PHP, is written in all in PHP.

3. The PHP form processing code must reside on a seperate page (i.e. file) within the hosting website.

Is the above correct?

ocalhoun

1- true
2- true
3- Not necessarily, but that's the easiest way to do it. The separate page would usually be a 'thank you, your form has been processed' type page, with that small part done in HTML, while the rest of the file contains code to process the form. (Note the 'your post has been submitted' page after posting on frihost ^.^)
(You could write the form page in php with different 'modes' mode 1 would be the default with a blank form, but if the page was loaded with data from the form sent to it, it would go to mode 2, which processes the form's data. You could, in fact, use this method to create an entire website (other than pictures) on a single php file, though I don't know why you'd want to.)

rvec

if you want to make point 3 complicated you could also say PHP can be used in the form, and form processing is done in PHP, but sending the actual mail is not done by php and you give the command to do so in php.

But to keep it all simple
1 true
2 true
3 true

Hogwarts

ocalhoun

Dennise

Hey all ............

Thanks for the replies. It sure helps understanding the 'big picture' before going forward with forms and forms validation.

Smile

Hogwarts

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