HOUR 22. Sending and Reacting to Form Data
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THIS HOUR:
• How to use the Validate Form behavior and Spry form validation elements
• How to set up a page to submit to a CGI script
• How to create secure web pages
• How Dreamweaver edits and displays ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, PHP, and CFML code
In Hour 21, “Creating a Form and Collecting Data,” you learned how to create a form. In this hour, you decide what to do with the data that the user enters into your form. You have to send the data to a script on the server for processing. The script on the server can store data in a database, send it to an email address, send results back to the browser, or process it any way you want (depending on your scripting abilities!).
The types ...
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