Teach me about html input to a server side script please.

[Weeks]

I had a brief look at the pages on w3schools, but got bored after a while.
I'm looking for information on general server side scripting.



So i'm going to have a script like: (yesiama.script)

if cgidata.david = "inept" 
	destroyuniverse()

And a html file like: (www.thesecondcoming.org/yesiama.script)

<blar pass all the onclick data to a script called yesiama.script>
 
<p id="david" onclick="the value david equals inept,
			now reload the page to create a dynamically created page">
I am the one and only.
</p>

So I am basically wondering...

1) does the server side scripting engine automatically know to pass the value david="inept" to the yesiama.script script, via the cgidata bundle, so the script can run destroyuniverse() and thus recreate the page? Or do you have to tell the html file other shit?

2) what is the normal syntax for
a- "<blar pass all the onclick data to a script called yesiama.script>"
b- onclick="the value david equals inept, now reload the page to create a dynamically created page">


Thanks!

[sayonara]

First things first: what server-side language are you using?

[Weeks]

Originally Posted by sayonara

First things first: what server-side language are you using?

php, perl anything.
I'm assumed all the server side scripting languages would work pretty much the same, with the exceptions of some things of course.

[meglamaniac]

Originally Posted by Weeks

I'm assumed all the server side scripting languages would work pretty much the same

Wrong!

You'd better choose one first.
I'd suggest PHP as it has several important things integrated which perl doesn't, at the sacrafice of choice of course. Most noteworthy of these are pre-parsed POST/GET arrays and inbuilt MySQL support/commands.

I'll probably get shouted down for this shortly though.

[Weeks]

Bollocks. I'd look up examples on the internet but I want to use CGI:LUA.

BASTARDS.

[Weeks]

Could you just give me a brief example with PHP megla?

[queball]

Originally Posted by meglamaniac

Wrong!

You'd better choose one first.
I'd suggest PHP as it has several important things integrated which perl doesn't, at the sacrafice of choice of course. Most noteworthy of these are pre-parsed POST/GET arrays and inbuilt MySQL support/commands.

I'll probably get shouted down for this shortly though.

Weeks, you can always do <a href="?david=inept">clicky</a>.

Or if you want to vary it a bit:

<form id="ineptitude" method="get" action="">
<input type="hidden" name="david" value="inept">
</form>

<p onclick="document.getElementById('ineptitude').submit();">
clicky
</p>

The browser then requests yesiama.script?david=inept and your script can sense this using cgi.david / param('david') / $_REQUEST['david'].

[Weeks]

Originally Posted by queball

Weeks, you can always do <a href="?david=inept">clicky</a>.

Or if you want to vary it a bit:

<form id="ineptitude" method="get" action="">
<input type="hidden" name="david" value="inept">
</form>
 
<p onclick="document.getElementById('ineptitude').submit();">
clicky
</p>

The browser then requests yesiama.script?david=inept and your script can sense this using cgi.david / param('david') / $_REQUEST['david'].

Thankyou queball!

[meglamaniac]

A simple take on what you were suggesting:

HTML

<form id="ineptitude" method="get" action="yourscript.php">
<label for="inept">Are you inept?</label><input type="checkbox" name="inept" id="inept" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send" />
</form>

PHP

<?php
if ($_GET['inept']) {
   destroyUniverse();
}
?>

[morrowyn]

just grab the http request variables (get or post) in your script lang, eg. php uses $_GET and $_POST