Simple PHP question

[Jenius Team]

Hello everybody, I am a newbie to both the forums and hostgator.

First of all, please excuse the lame username choice, but we all have our unimaginative moments. To cut a long story short, I'm the web developer of the team.

Having almost completed my (x)HTML/CSS studybook, I fell upon the chapter regarding forms, inside which I read what I expected as much as loathed: The need to process any information sent from an XHTML form to the server with the POST method through a PHP script (or just any scripting language sript).

Unfortunately, my deadlines are rather pressing. I have to have a site ready by the end of the month and I still haven't coded scratch, and, being a university student, I'm also pretty certain that I won't have attained PHP proficiency by November 2nd. What I'd like to ask, after looking around my site's control panel for a while (I have a shared "business" account) is if any of the available PHP conveniences relate to my problem directly. I am certain that my PHP requirements are of the most basic nature.

Thank you for your time.

[Hullabaloo]

PHP can be pretty simple.

Try the w3schools tutorial.

http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp

If you know any programming language (even BASIC) you should pick it up pretty fast.

There are also lots of code and code fragments out there that will do most anything you can imagine. Just google...

[gwyneth]

These threads may help:

Form resources

Learning PHP: beginners' resources has several specifically about forms.

[Pazeh]

if you don't have the time to learn the tips & tricks, "Form to Go" php version might be your best choice.

also check for some sites that do offer (free or paid) form submission scripts.

[Awes]

Yup, the thought of it is worse than the actual use. It comes very easy after you download some well written scrips and read through them. Most well written ones will tell you exactly what each section does. After you do a few, and read some of the posts above you'll be using php more and more.

I just downloaded one to update my CAPTCHA to an x+y format posted from xhtml to a php script and validated by another. I knew a little basic when I started and learned asp. PHP is very easy to adapt to.

Tons of free scripts. A good indication of how well it is written is how they remark each section. If it's poorly remarked, chances are it is poorly written.

[Jenius Team]

Thanks everyone. I have a strong programming background so I guess PHP will be relatively easy for me to catch up to. I shall look into each and every recommendation later today.

[kompreszor]

Here is a basic email script at the w3cSchools that will give you a feel for how things should be coded. The next page on the tutorial will show you some ways to prevent injection. Plus here is the link to the chapter on php filters so you can learn more ways to filter user input and this is the complete list of php filter functions