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Building Web Forms

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Even modern websites with hyper-interactivity and self-updating pages, using behind-the-scenes communication with web servers via Ajax (detailed in Lesson 20), still rely on trusty old HTML forms for requesting input from users. HTML forms are simple, easily implemented, and have passed the test of time. What’s more, they can be simply constructed in HTML or output from a scripting language such as PHP.

   There is a downside, though: even ...

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