Forms: Interactivity for the World Wide Web

By Malcolm Guthrie

Details how to create forms on the World Wide Web using a variety of platforms and formats, including HTML and PDF. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568304552
• ISBN13: 9781568304557
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Adobe Pr
• Length: 701 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.8" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

interactive forms, internet programming (server)

The first three chapters (100 pages) show you how to create HTML and PDF forms. The interaction between the browser and the server is explained. The section titled "Choosing Your Scripting Language" demonstrates Perl, C, JavaScript, Java, Visual Basic, VBScript, active server pages (ASP), and Applescript. The final two chapters (518 pages) contain the following eight examples: business card order, W4 employer form, 1040 Tax Form, Drivers License Order, Employee Benefits, Stock Photo Library, Resume Submission, and University Course Enrollment. The server scripts are written in Perl. The discussion of creating form fields in Acrobat Exchange bogs down the examples. However, the examples demonstrate important web programming techniques such as creating forms, creating server side scripts, maintaining state information (needed because of page transitions) in a PDF form using hidden fields, generating FDF files, and serializing information in a database.