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 Posted by J.O. Aho on 12/17/06 19:35 
Juan Epstein wrote: 
> I have a domain, call it www.domain.com.  I have a mysql database that 
> I created that I would like to add records to using an html form. 
>  
> 1.  where do I put the php script that takes the fields of the form, 
> and adds it to the database? The fields (firstname, lastname, etc) are 
> called the same in the form as well as the database. 
 
--- formpage.html --- 
<form action="thispage.php"> 
  Firstname<input type="text" name="firstname"><br> 
  Lastname<input type="text" name="lastname"><br> 
  <input type="submit" name="Submit"> 
</form> 
--- eof --- 
 
 
--- thispage.php --- 
echo $_REQUEST['firstname'] ." ". $_REQUEST['lastname']; 
--- eof --- 
 
 
> 2.  how do I dump the recors that were added to the database into 
> excel? 
 
Why would you? 
 
see myphpadmin for getting out data in cvs format that then maybe can be  
imported into microsoft excel (excel is a registered trademark by Excel AB). 
 
 
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   //Aho
 
  
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