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john knight
Courses Plus Student 9,155 PointsQuestion: I heard about that if you want to receive input from the user you need to learn PHP is that right?..more..
And you need SQL so the user information who uses your website but can PHP or jQuery make an monthly billing system?. Like treehouse?
1 Answer
Daniel Silva
5,353 PointsTypically yes, or another server side language. You can create a simple form to send say an email with regular html and create a message.However, for more dynamic you'd want to use PHP or another server side language.
As for your second question, yes you'd put a link to your PHP file in the "action" value so the form can use the PHP code to process that file.
john knight
Courses Plus Student 9,155 PointsThank you, Daniel.
john knight
Courses Plus Student 9,155 Pointsjohn knight
Courses Plus Student 9,155 PointsThis question is for the skilled people who know's PHP. Thank you Just one more thing: When you go to fill the form's action can we put between the double quotes an a link you PHP file?