Hey, I’m just wondering if it’s possible to have a form in html do two things on submit, have the action go to a url like normal (for a search) but also run a mysql command.
Thanks!
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Hey, I’m just wondering if it’s possible to have a form in html do two things on submit, have the action go to a url like normal (for a search) but also run a mysql command.
Thanks!
A form can not run any SQL. HTML has nothing to do with databases, it doesn’t know about them, it can’t talk to them.
A script on your server can do SQL queries, and that script can be invoked by the browser request. The browser may also submit form data together with the request if it wishes.
It works like this: