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Mastering HTML5 Forms

By : Gaurav Gupta
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Mastering HTML5 Forms

By: Gaurav Gupta

Overview of this book

HTML5 has given web developers the ability to easily develop sites and applications which, previously, were extremely time consuming. Now, they can not only build visually stunning forms and web pages, but can also increase the scope of their applications, as well as collect valuable user inputs and data through customized forms. This practical guide will teach you how to create responsive forms, and how to link them to the database. This will enable you to take advantage of the power behind HTML5 elements for building forms, and make the user interfaces attractive and more interactive. Explore the benefits of web forms, and learn how to create them using new HTML5 form elements. This guide will take you through a number of clear, practical examples that will help you to take advantage of the forms built and customized using HTML5 and related technologies, quickly and painlessly. Your ability to build responsive forms will be enhanced throughout the book.You will also learn about the necessity of validations, CSS3 properties for improving the look of the form, and how to link the form to the server. Lastly, you will learn to make the standard forms responsive by making them compatible with desktops and mobile devices.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

PHP


PHP, which is also used as a general-purpose programming language, is basically a server-side scripting language, which is designed for web development. With a PHP processor module, PHP code is interpreted by a web server resulting in the generation of a web page.

Rather than calling an external file to process data, PHP commands can be embedded directly into the HTML code. It can be used for standalone graphical applications and can be deployed on most of the web servers for almost every operating system and platform.

All variables in PHP are case-sensitive, but user-defined functions, classes, and keywords such as if, else, while, echo, and many more are case-insensitive.

On the server, first a PHP script is executed and then the HTML result is sent back to the browser.

Through an HTML form, the ability of PHP to easily manipulate the information submitted by the user is one of the reasons why it is popular.

To use PHP, we have to perform the following steps:

  1. Get a web server that supports...