Hi,
OK, so I am good with XHTML, CSS etc for the front end of a website but when it comes to forms and so on I'm not really a pro. I can knock forms together and do the php behind the scenes and all that but I am keen to find out the best ways of creating a user management panel i.e something like you would see at the backend of a cms.
I want to be able to have a simple login system, and then a number of pages where users can fill out forms and have some content put into a DB. All the php for DB stuff is dead on but just wondering if there is any easy way to do this.
Are there any handy tools that I can install which allow me to have a login, ability to add, edit, and delete from a database? I will happily code this manually if need be but if there was an opensource addon im sure it would be handy.
A question about forms. What is the best way to do this. Is it this?
1) Have a form on an html page, send the form to a .php page. If the content needs changed to pass validation then go back and try again.
Or,
2) Have a form post to itself, so that you only have the one page and all the php validation etc is included. How does posting to self work for multiple forms?
I am happy with coding PHP so its more a question of what are the best practices rather than give me the code for this.
Any info would be much appreciated whether it be tips of using multiple forms per page, or using a 3rd party tool to help me manage user content.
Thanks.
OK, so I am good with XHTML, CSS etc for the front end of a website but when it comes to forms and so on I'm not really a pro. I can knock forms together and do the php behind the scenes and all that but I am keen to find out the best ways of creating a user management panel i.e something like you would see at the backend of a cms.
I want to be able to have a simple login system, and then a number of pages where users can fill out forms and have some content put into a DB. All the php for DB stuff is dead on but just wondering if there is any easy way to do this.
Are there any handy tools that I can install which allow me to have a login, ability to add, edit, and delete from a database? I will happily code this manually if need be but if there was an opensource addon im sure it would be handy.
A question about forms. What is the best way to do this. Is it this?
1) Have a form on an html page, send the form to a .php page. If the content needs changed to pass validation then go back and try again.
Or,
2) Have a form post to itself, so that you only have the one page and all the php validation etc is included. How does posting to self work for multiple forms?
I am happy with coding PHP so its more a question of what are the best practices rather than give me the code for this.
Any info would be much appreciated whether it be tips of using multiple forms per page, or using a 3rd party tool to help me manage user content.
Thanks.