Ok, doing my first site, so don’t be too cruel!
I want to add a simple guestbook/comments section to my website pages 3 and 4 (out of 5 all in all) but…
I’ve already done all the html and css parts on the forms – what’s left is form processing.
The main question is:
IS IT POSSIBLE TO MAKE MY FORM GET PROCESSED WITHOUT CHANGING DOCTYPE FROM .HTML TO .PHP ?
I’ve already seen tons of scripts to process forms – I mean php to mysql etc. and even found and implemented a nice form, which actually required me to change two of my files 3.html and 4.html into 3.php and 4.php. But the question still remains – is this THE ONLY WAY?
I’ve also read that one can change .htaccess file on the server side so it would read
BUT, that is just a workaround, and also has issues (that will make ALL your .html files get processed by the server whether they have or don’t have any code in ’em.)
Is there a way to do it as I think:
1. a form on page.html sends data to .php (which is a separate file) via /form action=”processor script.php?/
2. that “processor script.php” gets data and loads it to some database (let us say “database.db or .txt”)
3. javascript (or what, say ajax, i don’t know yet) loads the data from “database.db or .txt” to page.html every time when it is loaded or refreshed.
Is there a way that it will work? Don’t write the code yourself, just give a hint, or url example.
Mind again I DON’T WANT TO ADD SCRIPT TO PAGE.HTML FOR IT WILL AUTOMATICALLY REQUIRE ME TO CHANGE PAGE.HTML INTO PAGE.PHP
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
