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[jsnowzell]

Hello - I am doing an online gift list for my weedding and trying to work out the best way I can have a list available on my site and then for people to be able to 'check' a box and then save the page with that paticular gift checked - so that when other people come on to my web site they will know that somebody is already getting that gift! I am a bit of a basic web designer and would really appreciate some help!

Josh

[Twey]

This cannot be done in HTML. You would need to use a server-side language, such as PHP.

[jsnowzell]

Cheers - but have you got any other idea how i could do this or how ou could point me in the right direction?

[Twey]

http://www.php.net/
You will need PHP installed and enabled on your server.

[jsnowzell]

is there any way i can do something in html? I have just been messing around with PHP and it is going right over my head

[Twey]

Nope, sorry. There are ways to do this client-side, but they're all far more complicated than PHP would be, and generally involve applets

[jsnowzell]

well thanks any way man i apprecate the help

[T-B0N3]

Congrats on the wedding anyway

[djr33]

Twey is absolutely right. You can design forms all you want in html... in fact, you can only have forms in html.
But, to interpret the forms, you have to use a language that can work serverside (rather than clientside... on the server, not the user's computer) so that it can save data.
Not only can you interpret the forms data (use ifs based on input, etc etc), but you could also save data about users to a database (or, cheaper version, a text file), etc.This si the right solution.... but you would have to learn php.

Good luck

(and don't be too daunted... it's not impossibly hard or anything... just play with it... and it'll work out )