Help me please!! (Web Forms)

[Sebb]

Hi,

Can anyone help me or aleast point me in the right direction as I dont have a clue!

I am trying to build a website and want to create a Web Form that user use to input information as well as upload photo(s) (This part is not the problem as I know HTML and can build the form)

I then want the information to be displayed on the website (on another page of course) I need it so that each time a user inputs information it appears on the website underneath the last user entry and so on if you know what I mean

Example Form : (Photo upload button)
( Text Field 1)
( Text Field 2)
(Submit Button)

Example Web Display: (Photo) (Text Field1 info) ( Text Field2 Info) [USER 1]
(Photo) (Text Field1 info) ( Text Field2 Info) [USER 2]

If anyone out there can help me please reply

Thank you

Sebb

[Ribeyed]

Hi,
are you using a database or are you just wanting to display per session?

[drallab]

If you want the submitted info to show to all users like a small section displaying the most recent web site submissions, you will need to store the info someplace like a database for retrieval.

Then pull the most recent submissions from the DB and render them on the page.

This can be done by MySQL, SQL, etc depending on what the hosting provider supports.

:)

[Sebb]

Hi,
are you using a database or are you just wanting to display per session?
Hi,

Thank you for replying I would like to render all submissions on the site up untill there submissions expire I sort of knew I needed a database to store the info then have it render the info on the site but I dont know have to do that part but I would love to know!! are ther any WYSIWYG software outhere that could do this?? or do you have any suggestion on books that will show me how to do this?? any suggestions welcomed

Thank you

Sebb

[Sebb]

Hi,

Thank you for replying I would like to render all submissions on the site up untill there submissions expire I sort of knew I needed a database to store the info then have it render the info on the site but I dont know have to do that part but I would love to know!! are ther any WYSIWYG software outhere that could do this?? or do you have any suggestion on books that will show me how to do this?? any suggestions welcomed

Thank you

[PeOfEo]

There are no WYSIWYG editors that can do this well. You can shell out a lot of money for Visual Studio 2005, and it can probably do it, but I never advocate solutions like this as they tend to limit you when you want to expand your functionality. You are going to either need a database server, or you are going to need a file based db, which in this case would probably be an access mdb (You could also use XML to store the data, which can turn out really nice, but can be tricky if you are new server side scripting). How many entries do you think you will be storing? File based DBs do not work as well when they store large amounts of data or need to be accessed frequently.

[Sebb]

Hello,

I dont know how many entries it depends on how popular the website becomes!! I would proberbly like to set it up on the side of optimisium

[PeOfEo]

Well you will probably have an easier time if you go with an access db and store the text in the db and store the image name and just keep the images in a directory on the server. If you have access to a server based db, such as mssql server (which would be better), than you can just store all of the images in the data base. The reason i wouldn't do the latter with an access database is it could cause the mdb to be huge, and you are going to have to download and upload that thing every time you want to modify it. Since this is essentially a blog with some image functionality added, the starting point would be to figure out how to code up a blog, the image part is actually the easy part. The blog is essentially going to just be adding text, a user name, and a date to a db and then spitting iterating it back out onto the page with a data grid or repeater control or something.