[ic] Trying to figure out how to get custom forms into databases

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Bill Carr)]

On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 07:43, Chris Chaney wrote:
> How exactly does it work when a user fills out a form on an Interchange
> page and submits it that it enters it into a database table.  How can I
> set it up myself?
> 
> For example, lets say we have a user named John (ID) logged in and we
> present him with a form.
> 
> Favorite color: blue, black, red, or yellow (favcol)
> Favorite sport: soccer, basketball, American Football (favsport)
> Age: ____ (age)
> 
> Now we have a special database table called surveys with
> 
> ID | favcol | favsport | age
> ------------------------------
> 
> What interchange code would we put into the form page to tell
> interchange to put the submitted information into the 'surveys' table?
> 
>     <FORM ACTION="[process secure=0]" METHOD="POST" ....????
> 
> What tags would we use? What hidden variables would we use? Would we
> name the form variables the same as the variables in the table?   We we
> have to create a form processor (no idea how to do that) or could we set
> this up in the page itself?  Lets say we we didn't want to input it into
> a table if his age was older than 12.
> 
> Can someone help me figure this out?  This has been a major stumbling
> block of mine and as of yet haven't figured it out.  Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
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