Programming Resources

I always involved in making applications that submit forms to databases. In order to save time, I just copy this function to all my applications - because they’re a great time saving function that suits all my applications. Here I’ll show you step by step on how I made the function:

(This is the form example)

Note two important things in the form above:

1. action value; and
2. form action

The action value will ensure the form to be submitted the right way whereas the form action will lead itself to index.php.

In the index.php, I set a condition - switch ( portion(1) ) case “process”;.

The "process" condition goes like this:

Do you realize - I sent the data using array - $_POST array! This is what I’m talking about. Sorry for the long intro…

Ok now let’s see what is inside the submitForm() function. In brief, the function must contain:

1. key assigning process for each input value;
2. character control using str_replace function;
3. additional controls and conditions; and
4. SQL statement structures;

I set the head like this:

Now we’ve covered the main concept and some code go through. I think I’ve to stop here for now. See you in Part II!