Chapter 2: DIY PHP Solutions
In This Chapter
Managing form data with PHP scripts
Working with server-supplied data
Embedding server-side includes with PHP
Case study: Building a site with PHP includes
In this chapter, you enter into the realm of live data — namely, content collected from visitors of a web page and sent to a server, or web page content served into a page from a server.
Live data web pages allow you to gather data in forms and send that data to a server without requiring a user to launch an e-mail program. That simple solution will work, and we show you how in Chapter 1 of this minibook, but there are more elegant ways to collect data.
And, live data allows you to embed content from a server within pages. Newspaper articles, header content, navigation bars, and any other kind of page content can be stored in one file on a server, fed into any number of web pages, and updated globally.
If you’re creating PHP content in Dreamweaver, there are quirks you should know about ...
