dynamic javascript?

[derezzz]

hey people!
I'm working on a pretty major project for school and its been driving me nuts, so i would TRULY appreciate any help. I am trying to use Javascript with a form. I want to provide a textarea space for a user to type text, once they click the submit button I would like the text they typed to then be displayed on the left side of the new page. I'd like for that happen so that the text from each user is there for when the next person comes. I started out trying to do this in PHP but I dont have any dedicated webspace and dont know how to compile php, apache etc on my system. Basically the page I am trying to creat would work something like a messageboard or guestbook. PLEASE help if you can. Thank you
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[Khalid Ali]

first you will need a web server that supports some sort of server side programming language, such as

Apache supports php ets
Tomcat(by apcahe org as well) supports Java(jsp/servlets)

and IIS works on windows and supports ASP

[derezzz]

well, i understand the concept of server-side parsing etc, but I'm pretty low-tech here. It seems that there is a way in Javascript to take information that someone puts into a text area and then somehow use a "writein" to move it to the next page once they click on a button thats linked. Am I completely off here? I have looked at the "Get" function as well as the "search" function and those come the closest to doing what I want, i just cant figure out how. Can anyone show me where this has been done using javascript? Maybe then I could figure it out?
thanks

[Charles]

Originally posted by derezzz
Am I completely off here?Yes, I'm afraid you are. You could use JavaScript to allow a user to make changes in the copy of your page that said user is working with but said user cannot make changes to anybody else's copy, not with JavaScript.

[derezzz]

thanks man...on to the next attempt i guess.