need help in coding

[nathanurag]

i have created forms in html

now i want to connect those forms  to the database through php

pls tell me how to connect html forms to the database

[wildteen88]

What do you mean by "connect"? What does the form collect. What are trying to do.

[tibberous]

In the future, I would make my forms in php, so you can have them submit to themselves and give error messages.

 

Basically you need to have your html forms submit to a php page, then that php page needs to connect to the database and insert the data. Thats the basics, in a real-world situation you would need to have the form getting the data also make sure that the user input was complete / good, and you would probably want to check and make sure not to duplicate records.

 

Go to php.net, look up mysql_connect and mysql_select_db and mysql_query, those are the only mysql functions you'll need to do this.

[cooldude832]

In the future, I would make my forms in php, so you can have them submit to themselves and give error messages.

 

Not true, what I actually do with my forms is make them seperate files (like form_1.html) and then have them be included in a document where needed and the values are equal to $error['fieldname'] which can be made on a processor page that reincludes that form. 

 

But anyway I think for you to do what you are trying you need to initally learn the ins/outs of mysql/php interaction, get phpmyadmin on your server and start making tables