Can Someone Point me to An Example?
Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:21 pm
Hello,
I'm learning HTML, CSS, PHP, and Javascript using web tutorials and looking at websites to see examples of how it's done then adapting things to my needs. I'm not a for-hire developer, just a hacker (an old one at that - I'm 64) building a high school class website and a family site.
My high school class was over 500 people. It's too much to code pages of addresses and biographical data directly in HTML and try to keep from breaking the code. My server host provides me with a few mySQL database. I think this is the right tool for me with PHP or Javascript to access it. What I want to do is host forms for gathering data and write (or adapt) scripts to do the actual db adds/changes/deletes.
Can someone tell me if I'm heading in the right direction, and if not point me in a better one?
Also, if this sounds reasonable, can you point me to some sample scripts that scrape forms and update mySQL?
I've already built a website (http://www.broughton1960.com) that has pages with forms that I intend to use on it. Take a look at it to get a better idea of what I'm trying to do. None of the forms are functional yet, meaning that users can't enter data and I can't scrape it yet.
(Yeah, that's my ugly mug in the photo.)
TIA
I'm learning HTML, CSS, PHP, and Javascript using web tutorials and looking at websites to see examples of how it's done then adapting things to my needs. I'm not a for-hire developer, just a hacker (an old one at that - I'm 64) building a high school class website and a family site.
My high school class was over 500 people. It's too much to code pages of addresses and biographical data directly in HTML and try to keep from breaking the code. My server host provides me with a few mySQL database. I think this is the right tool for me with PHP or Javascript to access it. What I want to do is host forms for gathering data and write (or adapt) scripts to do the actual db adds/changes/deletes.
Can someone tell me if I'm heading in the right direction, and if not point me in a better one?
Also, if this sounds reasonable, can you point me to some sample scripts that scrape forms and update mySQL?
I've already built a website (http://www.broughton1960.com) that has pages with forms that I intend to use on it. Take a look at it to get a better idea of what I'm trying to do. None of the forms are functional yet, meaning that users can't enter data and I can't scrape it yet.
(Yeah, that's my ugly mug in the photo.)
TIA