Web coding advise on how to have a user input text and have it save and be displayed in a browser(Like a review for a product)

[evanscooter]

Just like many sites have "reviews" on products/services where a user can have an input box to type text, then that text is saved and displayed on the page.... 

 

Any advise on how I could achieve this using a web language.. html, php, javascript, etc.

[Luc401]

Like a comment box , then which applyed moves into a comment section?

[evanscooter]

Correct, basically like how this forum we are on is working right now... but without adding complications of user accounts and so forth.   

[Guest]

Well you would use HTML and JavaScript. Give the user a text box, then create a variable and use document.getElementById("InsertTextBoxIDHere").value to give the variable the value of what they had entered into the text box and then use document.write(Variable) to insert it into the HTML.

 

Not sure if that is what you where wanting to do though. 

 

Where you asking on how to do it?

[ExSangu]

I don't know whether you are going to use a database, but you can save text in a database by making a 'text' attribute. You can then make a table with a product ID as the primary key, and then with the text as a second attribute.

[evanscooter]

Well you would use HTML and JavaScript. Give the user a text box, then create a variable and use document.getElementById("InsertTextBoxIDHere").value to give the variable the value of what they had entered into the text box and then use document.write(Variable) to insert it into the HTML.

 

Not sure if that is what you where wanting to do though. 

 

Where you asking on how to do it?

 

Sounds like something I want to do....

 

I don't know whether you are going to use a database, but you can save text in a database by making a 'text' attribute. You can then make a table with a product ID as the primary key, and then with the text as a second attribute.

 

I don't plan on using a database. I'm not fully sure how it will save to the server... thats mostly my problem I guess. I don't know if I should have the user input text saved to a .txt file then have the page somehow know to find it and display it in the page...

[Art Vandelay]

I don't plan on using a database. I'm not fully sure how it will save to the server... thats mostly my problem I guess. I don't know if I should have the user input text saved to a .txt file then have the page somehow know to find it and display it in the page...

There's no real way to do this without using some kind of database.

 

You could get the string and write it into an XML file, along with any other information needed. It would work for a small amount of information only, since you need to load the entire XML file into memory to access info. XML parsers are pretty easy to find.

[Earache]

Check out Wordpress

[evanscooter]

There's no real way to do this without using some kind of database.

 

You could get the string and write it into an XML file, along with any other information needed. It would work for a small amount of information only, since you need to load the entire XML file into memory to access info. XML parsers are pretty easy to find.

 

If I can code it right, storing as an XML file sounds like it could work. There would probably be only 10-15 text entries max on the page. Thank you for the idea

[flowalex]

Ruby on Rails can do that it doesn't save the entries in XML but it will save them it also will build the basic site framework here is a link to a project I did for a class, It has mutiple database tables and users have to sign in with passwords being encrypted.  To run ruby on rails needs to be installed (it is free and open source) http://inft.ly/35q5CGp

[BWSSoldya]

If I can code it right, storing as an XML file sounds like it could work. There would probably be only 10-15 text entries max on the page. Thank you for the idea

 

Why would you want to? Don't you have multiple pages each containing 10-15 text entires per page? 

 

If that's the case I would strongly suggest you get a hosting / development enviroment with a database engine installed. PHP, Ruby, C#, Java are not built to save things. They are ment to calculate and execute actions, not remember things. If a MySQL database or something is not done you could see if you could get SQLite to work which also stores in a file (how ever it is a fully fledged database engine).

If database really are not an option you have multiple ways of doing it. Depening on what you got available in terms of programming skills and programming languages installed on your hosting. You could always use LoneRanger's suggestion and use JavaScript, this removes the need for any programming languages to be installed as JavaScript runs in the browser. This how ever is super sensitive to hacking so I'd advise using a server sided programming language like PHP.

 

However, if you do want to know more on JavaScript and XML check out this link here. It's a W3Schools section on JavaScript + XML. You can use that if you want to. For PHP just Google "PHP and XML" and you'll find lots of help on the subject.

[SSL]

Don't use PHP, due to it being a disgusting joke language.

 

I recommend Python, perhaps the Bottle framework.