Hour 20. Sending and Reacting to Form Data

In Hour 19, “Creating a Form and Using a Form to Collect Data,” you learned how to create a form. In this hour, you'll decide what to do with the data that the user enters into your form. You will need to send the data to a script on the server to process the form data. The script on the server can store data in a database, send it to an e-mail address, send results back to the browser, or process it any way you want.

You also can have client-side scripts created in JavaScript to process form data, but those scripts will not have access to server resources and will not be able to e-mail data or insert ...

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