It a big leap when going to the web. I felt like I needed to learn everything all over again.

So, here's how things work on the web. You enter a URL, a connection is made from the browser to the server. The page is sent from the server and rendered in the browser, then the browser disconnects from the server. When you click a link on that page, the browser again makes a connection to the server, the server sends the new page. It's rendered in the browser, and the browser disconnects from the server. This is generally called stateless.

The request is what is sent from the browser. The response is sent from the server. It's the response to the request.

So, to resolve what you're asking, in the html, you give each textbox an id. When the data is sent from the browser back to the server, the id is linked to the value, so you can query the request data for the specific id and get the value.




>Firstly - Rick - I will no doubt end up buying your wares, but first I have to get my head around web programming in it's entirety, including stuff 'out there', and not just on localhost.
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>I am messing with Eeva web server (it's free. It doesn't require IIS, (which is a pain all unto itself!)), and it doesn't have localhost limitations. I can get data out there on a web page from local dbfs - first time I ever did this, so it is quite fun to see it happen!
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>This, I don't think, is an Eeva question, but HTML in general. I am still trying to get my head around the whole web page flow of data, with posts and responses, etc, and I am sure this will take time for a dummy like me, but my question is - if, in the web page I run on the Eeva web server, I can use memory variables from dbfs to 'say' stuff in the browser. In other words - I can represent memory variables on the screen in the browser, but how could I get data entered into a textbox (etc) into a memory variable? From what I have read, things don't work this way, but it seems so weird that I can put a memvar onto the screen, but I can't take the value of a control into a memvar.
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>Please talk to me.
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>Thanks!