Re: Setting up a text file database

Don't support SQL databases? What *do* they support? >I just want to collect data and use >the submitted data to determine the content of the next form If thats all you want to do; you don't even need a database or a text file at all, eg: --Page1.php--- Name [ ] Email [ ] etc ..... <<button to go to next page, <FORM ACTION=page2.php>> ------------ --Page2.php-- All the things they just sent are now variables. Eg, if the Email text input was written like: <INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME=EmailAddr> then you can use $EmailAddr as a variable now. ------------- And finally, when the user gets to page5, yuo can have those results EMAILED to you (or to them!) or something ... see www.php.net/mail Siggy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Honey Gastauer" <hgastauer@mindspring.com> To: <php-windows@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 6:46 AM Subject: [PHP-WIN] Setting up a text file database > I am working on a multiple page/multiple form web survey (still). It is set > up on a host server that does not allow any type of SQL database. So, I > want to send my results to a text file instead. There is no need to "query" > the database (as I understand query). I just want to collect data and use > the submitted data to determine the content of the next form and the next. > It is also necessary to display data from form1 on form2 and form3. Does > this require a query? Can I use a text database to do this? If so where > can I find information on how to do this? > > I have been unable to find any reference on the web to setting up a text > database or using php with a text database. Maybe I haven't looked in the > right place. > > I may have gotten the cart before the horse when building this web survey. > My web prescense provider (Mindspring turned Eathlink) has been giving me > pits and pieces of information at a time which I have used in the order it > was feed to me. First, they don't support asp, but they do support php for > databasing (change direction), but they don't support php4 just php2 and 3 > (change direction), though they support databasing they don't support SQL > databases (change direction). I feel like I'm searching for the corner in a > round room. > > Can anyone direct me? > > BTW: I'm have no formal training in scripting/programming. I am learning as > I go--driven by necessity. Please provide any information in a "for > Dummies"--no wait more like a "for idiots" format. > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >