Saving in html

[defcon]

Hi, i´m new here, and i realy need some help.....

if i have a html page with a few TEXT FIELDS...
how can i save the information writen in the text and see them later?????

thanks already for any help!!!

[agent002]

Hi Defcon, and a big welcome to the forums! :)
What you want to do involves a server side script. That means, a script (code) that is executed at the server. There are lots of different languages available, the most popular are Perl (CGI), PHP, ASP, JSP and Python I guess. This forum uses PHP for instance.

All HTML, CSS and JavaScript code that you write is simply sent by the server to the client (=your browser). The browser parses and executes it; the server has nothing to do with that. Server side scripts, however, are executed by the server - so they do different sorts of things; extract data from a form you sent, read and write to files, handle databases, etc. Then they send HTML data back to the client which your browser parses. Server side scripts can't affect on your browser in any way; they can't create dynamic effects like JavaScript can.

What you need is to learn a server side language. PHP is probably the most chosen one nowadays, go ahead and search Google for php tutorial (http://www.google.com/search?q=php+tutorial). I've also heard that PHP Freaks (http://www.phpfreaks.com/) is a good resource, and of course the official PHP site itself, PHP.net (http://www.php.net/).

You also need a webhost (server) that support the language you chose, e.g. PHP. A lot of free webhosts don't support any server side language at all, but some do; you can find such here (http://www.free-webhosts.com/). You could also browse through the Domains & Web Hosting forum category here at HTMLForums.

If you don't want to learn any language (although I'd recommend you to), or if you want a very complex script that you don't want to code yourself, you can try to find a prewritten one at Hotscripts (http://www.hotscripts.com/) or The Resource Index (http://www.resourceindex.com/) maybe.

If and when you start coding server side, all questions go to the Server Side Programming forum category. Please notice that there is also a PHP Programming subforum where all PHP questions go.

Good luck, happy coding

[defcon]

Thanks for the welcome
and thanks for the info!!!!
i just know a bit of html, so this part of server side
i really don´t know nothing!!!but i will try to learn

thanks a lot!!!!

[agent002]

It's probably better that you wait with the server side stuff until you are used to and feel comfortable with HTML.