Chapter 6. Automating the Form-Handling Process
Four phases of form processing were identified in Chapter 5, “Writing Form-Based Applications”: generating the form for display to the user, validating the contents of the form when the user submits it, storing the contents of the form in the database, and presenting confirmation to the user. For the form-based applications that we’ve built thus far, MySQL has come into play primarily during the third phase (as a means of storing form responses). The role of MySQL in each application has thus been to serve as a repository—a box in which to save information collected from people who visit our site. ...
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