Get form data and passing it to action page
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:56 pm
I am a newbie to CMS. My company had a 3rd party develop a new corporate site for us that would allow select in-house personnel to add, edit, and delete content. As it turns out, much of this work will be falling on my shoulders. Unfortunately, my background is limited, and the familiarity I have is with Dreamweaver and ColdFusion. Anyway, based on a request I did develop a simple series of web pages in PHP that is working at this time running on IIS/PHP/MySQL. My task at this time is to get this same code running under CMS Made Simple.
So basically I have a form that takes user input (let's call it page 1). The input is passed to an action page (.... page 2) where a hyperlinked recordset of the findings is displayed. When you click on a record you are brought to yet another action page (.... page 3) where detail for that single record is displayed.
The first step I took was to copy the code from page one into a newly created content page in CMS Made Simple. The CSS linked to the template used formated the page perfectly to adapt the page to the look of the site. I then created two other content pages and referenced the alias for each in the action of the form tag (e.g. . However, this is obviously not the way this is to be handled because I received the error that the page "can not be found". It is interesting to note that if I copy the php pages (2 & 3) into the CMS root that these pages do work and the data is displayed. The problem is that the pages are not integrated with CMS - and this scenario is not acceptable.
So I guess my first dilemma is to conceptually understand how dynamic pages are to be addressed. Then I must determine the route to take to adjust my code to fit that concept. I do not ask for someone to hold my hand, but to lend me direction. I am used to reading books and have always found a way to get a task done. I am finding it much more difficult to find CMS MS documentation that will fit my needs. The deadline I am under has forced me to seek help in this forum. Thanks in advance!
So basically I have a form that takes user input (let's call it page 1). The input is passed to an action page (.... page 2) where a hyperlinked recordset of the findings is displayed. When you click on a record you are brought to yet another action page (.... page 3) where detail for that single record is displayed.
The first step I took was to copy the code from page one into a newly created content page in CMS Made Simple. The CSS linked to the template used formated the page perfectly to adapt the page to the look of the site. I then created two other content pages and referenced the alias for each in the action of the form tag (e.g. . However, this is obviously not the way this is to be handled because I received the error that the page "can not be found". It is interesting to note that if I copy the php pages (2 & 3) into the CMS root that these pages do work and the data is displayed. The problem is that the pages are not integrated with CMS - and this scenario is not acceptable.
So I guess my first dilemma is to conceptually understand how dynamic pages are to be addressed. Then I must determine the route to take to adjust my code to fit that concept. I do not ask for someone to hold my hand, but to lend me direction. I am used to reading books and have always found a way to get a task done. I am finding it much more difficult to find CMS MS documentation that will fit my needs. The deadline I am under has forced me to seek help in this forum. Thanks in advance!