One of PHP's strengths is the ability to easily inject variables, values and attributes into HTML code to create dynamic Web pages.

First, create an entry HTML form capable of passing information to a secondary file. Next, create a Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) file to accept the data and insert it into the database.

HTML5 offers form field validation support built into the HTML form input tags that should greatly reduce the need for JavaScript validation code. In this post, I look at some examples of this.

Most web frameworks I've seen handle form validation using exceptions; if the form fields or the whole form don't meet the requirements, an exception is thrown and dealt with (redirect back to the ...