It seems to me you're confused about client vs. server functionality. If you want to store the data entered in your form after it's been submitted, you're supposed to do this serverside, i.e. on the webserver you're submitting the form to.

It depends on the webserver you use what's the best way go, but I suppose you'll want to use CGI on the server (which can, but need not, be a perl script).

If you've no experience with CGI programming (or even don't know what I'm ranting about), have a look at the tutorial section of the Monastry, there you can find quite a number of introductory texts on various aspects (the ones by Ovid seem relevant for you).

Hope this helps, -gjb-

In reply to Re: Re: Re: CGI form validation on submit by gjb
in thread CGI form validation on submit by Anonymous Monk

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