I've stayed away from using the form tools in the editor mainly because I don't understand where the data goes when the form is submitted ( assume a flat text file is used) and also how to use or display the data stored.
I've searched this forum using the terms Form, Field tool, form tools. but nothing of use is displayed and in most cases nothing is actually found.
Can some one give us a brief overview on how the data is stored and how one might access that data later. Also can the information submitted in a form actually be sent to a mysql DB ?
Thanks
I've searched this forum using the terms Form, Field tool, form tools. but nothing of use is displayed and in most cases nothing is actually found.
Can some one give us a brief overview on how the data is stored and how one might access that data later. Also can the information submitted in a form actually be sent to a mysql DB ?
Thanks
Re: Using Form tool in editor
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If so what information needs to be sent - how would you put it into a DB if at all
Wouldn't the user need to know the exact names of the fields to use in order to sent it to another file to be processed
Thanks for replying but to be honest your reply raised more questions than it answered in dealing with the data itself
Re: Using Form tool in editor
Do you understand how HTML forms work? You should start by figuring that out:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_form.asp
You would send it either to whatever page you specify in action. It comes in as POST or GET data, whatever you specify. Then you can do whatever you want with it. To get it into a DB, you would have to write some PHP to do so...Also, you would obviously need to know the names of the fields to get them out of the POST or GET array.
Re: Using Form tool in editor
Thanks