> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Emily Fortuna > Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 7:20 AM > To: tutor@python.org > Subject: [Tutor] making a python program part of xhtml > > Hola everyone, > I'm working on creating a webpage in which a user can submit > data into > fields to be held in a database (there are other details, but this is > the gist of the idea), and I need to use python. I am > unfamiliar with > manipulating data and web apps as a whole (and new to > python), so I have > been encountering much unfamiliar terrain. I _think_ I want > to somehow > embed the python into the page, but I'm really not sure how > to do it. > After googling I found some programs that generate xhtml from python, > but I don't think that is what I want, or is it? Your help > is appreciated! > Emily >
Although you can embed python in a web page to be run on a server, you probably don't want to do that.(It can get pretty messy.) What I'd suggest is creating a web page that calls a python program on the server and processes form fields in the web page. The python program would save the data in the database. [web page] -> [python program on server] -> [database] Look at the FORM tag in HTML/XHTML. Also look at the cgi module for Python. I think there's some web topics on the Python web site that might point to articles about doing simple cgi stuff in Python. http://wiki.python.org/moin/CgiScripts http://www.devshed.com/index2.php?option=content&task=view&id=198&pop=1&page =0&hide_js=1 Is an article on cgi programming with Python. Mike _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
