This article is aimed at beginner and intermediate Web developers looking to
make the leap into database support of their Web site. The article suggests a
new declarative language based on HTML-forms, which is used for development
of a database interface. HTML forms can manage not only the creation of a
database, but also the execution of requests to the database.
This article explains an original approach based on the features of the open
source Smans server.
Creating a database by means of HTML forms
As we know, HTML form is a block of HTML page allowing to enter data from the
Web browser on a local or remote Web server. The form block is marked with
tags
. Fields inside of HTML forms may have different
types, for example a list or a text field. The... (
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