A report on Form (HTML)

Sample form. The form is enclosed in an HTML table for visual layout.
Registration form of PHP-based e-commerce web-shop software ZenCart

Sent to a server for processing.

- Form (HTML)
Sample form. The form is enclosed in an HTML table for visual layout.

15 related topics with Alpha

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Dynamic web page: example of server-side scripting (PHP and MySQL).

Dynamic web page

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Web page whose construction is controlled by an application server processing server-side scripts.

Web page whose construction is controlled by an application server processing server-side scripts.

Dynamic web page: example of server-side scripting (PHP and MySQL).
When a request to a dynamic web page or resource is made, the application server processes the request using its server-side language.

Using server-side scripting to change the supplied page source between pages, adjusting the sequence or reload of the web pages or web content supplied to the browser. Server responses may be determined by such conditions as data in a posted HTML form, parameters in the URL, the type of browser being used, the passage of time, or a database or server state.

PC clients communicating via network with a web server serving static content only.

Web server

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Computer software and underlying hardware that accepts requests via HTTP or its secure variant HTTPS.

Computer software and underlying hardware that accepts requests via HTTP or its secure variant HTTPS.

PC clients communicating via network with a web server serving static content only.
The inside and front of a Dell PowerEdge server, a computer designed to be mounted in a rack mount environment. It is often used as a web server.
Multiple web servers may be used for a high traffic website.
Web server farm with thousands of web servers used for super-high traffic websites.
ADSL modem running an embedded web server serving dynamic web pages used for modem configuration.
First web proposal (1989) evaluated as "vague but exciting..."
The world's first web server, a NeXT Computer workstation with Ethernet, 1990. The case label reads: "This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!"
Sun's Cobalt Qube 3 – a computer server appliance (2002, discontinued)
PC clients connected to a web server via Internet
PC clients communicating via network with a web server serving static and dynamic content.
Directory listing dynamically generated by a web server.
Chart: Market share of all sites for most popular web servers 2005–2021
Chart: Market share of all sites for most popular web servers 1995–2005

These capabilities, along with the multimedia features of NCSA's Mosaic browser (also able to manage HTML FORMs in order to send data to web server) highlighted the potential of web technology for publishing and distributed computing applications.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

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Application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.

Application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.

URL beginning with the HTTP scheme and the WWW domain name label
Tim Berners-Lee
An HTTP/1.1 request made using telnet. The request message, response header section, and response body are highlighted.

Some web applications need to manage user sessions, so they implement states, or server side sessions, using for instance HTTP cookies or hidden variables within web forms.

PHP

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General-purpose scripting language geared toward web development.

General-purpose scripting language geared toward web development.

This is an example of PHP code for the WordPress content management system.
The elePHPant, PHP mascot
A "Hello World" application in PHP 7.4 running on its built-in development server
Example output of the phpinfo function in PHP 7.1
A broad overview of the LAMP software bundle, displayed here together with Squid
Dynamic web page: example of server-side scripting (PHP and MySQL)

He extended them to work with web forms and to communicate with databases, and called this implementation "Personal Home Page/Forms Interpreter" or PHP/FI.

JavaScript

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Programming language that is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS.

Programming language that is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS.

Validating input values of a web form before the data is sent to a web server.

The usap.gov website

Website

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Collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server.

Collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server.

The usap.gov website
The nasa.gov home page in 2015
Server-side programming language usage in 2016.

Dynamic sites can be interactive by using HTML forms, storing and reading back browser cookies, or by creating a series of pages that reflect the previous history of clicks.

POST (HTTP)

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Request method supported by HTTP used by the World Wide Web.

Request method supported by HTTP used by the World Wide Web.

It is often used when uploading a file or when submitting a completed web form.

The official CGI logo from the spec announcement

Common Gateway Interface

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Interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program, typically to process user requests.

Interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program, typically to process user requests.

The official CGI logo from the spec announcement

A typical use case occurs when a web user submits a web form on a web page that uses CGI.

Percent-encoding

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Method to encode arbitrary data in a Uniform Resource Identifier using only the limited US-ASCII characters legal within a URI.

Method to encode arbitrary data in a Uniform Resource Identifier using only the limited US-ASCII characters legal within a URI.

As such, it is also used in the preparation of data of the media type, as is often used in the submission of HTML form data in HTTP requests.

Example of DOM hierarchy in an HTML document

Document Object Model

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Cross-platform and language-independent interface that treats an XML or HTML document as a tree structure wherein each node is an object representing a part of the document.

Cross-platform and language-independent interface that treats an XML or HTML document as a tree structure wherein each node is an object representing a part of the document.

Example of DOM hierarchy in an HTML document
WHATWG DOM

Form, link and image elements could be referenced with a hierarchical name that began with the root document object.