Chapter 11
Processing Form Data
IN THIS CHAPTER
Coding text boxes
Programming checkboxes and radio buttons
Processing selection lists
Monitoring and triggering form events
Dealing with the form data
Programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the reason programmers get upset about ‘quick interruptions’ — such interruptions are tantamount to asking a juggler to keep three balls in the air and hold your groceries at the same time.
—STEVE MCCONNELL
Building HTML forms (the subject of Book 2, Chapter 5) is awesome and fun, but you may have noticed something more than a little dismaying about your forms: They don’t really do very much! Sure, there’s a certain satisfaction in toggling a checkbox, selecting a value from a list, and choosing a hue from a color picker, but that satisfaction is short-lived. It’s like renovating your kitchen, turning a burner knob on your new oven, and having nothing happen. Why not? No electricity! Why doesn’t your HTML form do anything? ...
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