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Creating a Database Using HTML Forms

Getting Started with Smans HTML form
By Sergey Savushkin
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August 24, 2008 05:46 AM EDT
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This article is aimed at beginner and intermediate Web developers looking to make the leap into database support of their Web site. The article suggests a new declarative language based on HTML-forms, which is used for development of a database interface. HTML forms can manage not only the creation of a database, but also the execution of requests to the database.

This article explains an original approach based on the features of the open source Smans server.

Creating a database by means of HTML forms

As we know, HTML form is a block of HTML page allowing to enter data from the Web browser on a local or remote Web server. The form block is marked with tags <form ...> and </form>. Fields inside of HTML forms may have different types, for example a list or a text field. The Listing 1 specifies code of a form example and Fig. 1 shows view of that form in Web browser.

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Sergey Savushkin has long experience in the development of database system, Sav Zigzag ORDBMS. The Smans project can be found here

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