Need a pointer towards instruction
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:20 pm
Hi,
I am a big dummy.
I was using a form that a previous developer made for my company. I was going to adopt it and put it on our public website. It updates a machine on our network with a private IP. The form is PHP and our web server is IIS, ASP. The form talks to a machine that is really useless now, save this form.
Of course, from my desk, this form works great. My machine knows the aliases of the other computers on the network. We have no more public IP addresses.
It does work from my desk.
But not from home.
So I installed PHP on our web server thinking that if I could at least bring the form up and begin a PHP dialog from outside our network, PHP would be able to talk to our private server with the MySQL database, and it would work.
Well, it doesnt. I dont exactly know why... but it gives me a 404.
I think it has something to do with the fact that my computer at home is trying to resolve private.company.com and cannot? It shouldnt - I dont think - have to. I would think all that logic would be handled on the network and not even be visible to my machine... but Im wrong. I know.
So I am going to install MySQL on our web server alongside MSSQL. At least I can get it working this way.
I need to just code a form to use for this client intake procedure, with required fields. I cant use the existing one. It is way overkill, and calls functions that have no place in what I am doing.
Can anyone point me towards a tutorial or example that will show me how to do required fields and simple stuff like that? Please dont groan. I have looked. I have read a million simple form tutorials, but they always confuse me (most are spread over 10000 pages of adsense) and the require field validation isnt something I can pin down. I have yet to see a comprehensive, lucid, explanation.
I would appreciate a pointer toward something good.
And I am very sorry to have such a stupid question. I have been battling with this for too long.
Thank you.
I am a big dummy.
I was using a form that a previous developer made for my company. I was going to adopt it and put it on our public website. It updates a machine on our network with a private IP. The form is PHP and our web server is IIS, ASP. The form talks to a machine that is really useless now, save this form.
Of course, from my desk, this form works great. My machine knows the aliases of the other computers on the network. We have no more public IP addresses.
It does work from my desk.
But not from home.
So I installed PHP on our web server thinking that if I could at least bring the form up and begin a PHP dialog from outside our network, PHP would be able to talk to our private server with the MySQL database, and it would work.
Well, it doesnt. I dont exactly know why... but it gives me a 404.
I think it has something to do with the fact that my computer at home is trying to resolve private.company.com and cannot? It shouldnt - I dont think - have to. I would think all that logic would be handled on the network and not even be visible to my machine... but Im wrong. I know.
So I am going to install MySQL on our web server alongside MSSQL. At least I can get it working this way.
I need to just code a form to use for this client intake procedure, with required fields. I cant use the existing one. It is way overkill, and calls functions that have no place in what I am doing.
Can anyone point me towards a tutorial or example that will show me how to do required fields and simple stuff like that? Please dont groan. I have looked. I have read a million simple form tutorials, but they always confuse me (most are spread over 10000 pages of adsense) and the require field validation isnt something I can pin down. I have yet to see a comprehensive, lucid, explanation.
I would appreciate a pointer toward something good.
And I am very sorry to have such a stupid question. I have been battling with this for too long.
Thank you.