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I am trying to create a web site in Front Page that will allow visitors to enter a name and top score (I can manage this bit - via Geocities web builder) but want to organise my site so it will take the results and enter them into a top score chart automatically.
Am I asking too much ?, I have a brief knowledge of html - am I better off expanding this and coding it all myself ?

All help appreciated.

David
www.podcar.tk

http://www.scriptsearch.com/PHP/
http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/
http://php.resourceindex.com/


These are an archive of PHP Scripts that people have created and allow you to use for free, so have a look through there as what your looking for may have already been done.

thanks for your help, I see where your coming from, I will make a trip to the library on the way home. Will let you know how I get on, but be patient !!

Cheers

HTML is only the base of setting out your Web Page, with Images and Text. HTML Can't do anything else.

PHP is known as a Server Side Scripting Language, and such a language is used to allow Web Designers to make their Web Sites more 'Live'.

What you seem to be after is a Live site that updates when someone enters a score, and the score to be saved and displayed on your site. HTML Can't do this, PHP can, you can use a PHP Script to look at your infomation filled into a Web Form, and it can do what you like with it, in this case, write it to a Text File and save it, and read the text file and display its content.Is that what your looking for?

I not very good at this sort of thing, so please bear with me. Is PHP the way forward, rather than HTML ?
I take it PHP is also better at handling forms etc.

thanks

I've got next to no idea what your on about...
Sounds like you'd need php which writes the details into a text file but i'm still learning php, hopefully someone else can help you.
Probably not best to use Frontpage for php.

I am trying to create a web site in Front Page that will allow visitors to enter a name and top score (I can manage this bit - via Geocities web builder) but want to organise my site so it will take the results and enter them into a top score chart automatically.
Am I asking too much ?, I have a brief knowledge of html - am I better off expanding this and coding it all myself ?

All help appreciated.

David
www.podcar.tk