About collecting information from users
You
can use web forms or hypertext links to gather information from
users, store that information in the server’s memory, and then use
the information to create a dynamic response based on the user’s
input. The most common tools for gathering user information are
HTML forms and hypertext links.
- HTML forms
- Let you gather information from users and store it in the
server’s memory. An HTML form can send the information either as
form parameters or as URL parameters.
- Hypertext links
- Let you gather information from users and store it in the server’s
memory. You specify a value (or values) to be submitted when a user clicks
a link—a preference, for example—by appending the value to the URL specified
in the anchor tag. When a user clicks the link, the browser sends
the URL and the appended value to the server.
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