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  8 months ago

  by ygallagher

  Yvonne Gallagher

  Seattle, United States

  Joined 8 months ago
  Hi, I'm not a web developer and just learn as i go. I need to set up a registration page that sends sensitive information to a payment gateway to process. I have the webpage created and the form with all the information to send to the gateway. My problem is that I need to convert and/or change the code so that its server side code.
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  8 months ago

  by couling

  Phil Couling

  England, United Kingdom

  Joined 7 years ago
  I'm not entirely sure what you mean by making the code server side. It sounds like you want to get the user of your website to send you some infomation, which you then handle in some way. To do this you need to have a program that plugs into the webserver and can automatically generate HTML pages. The main options for this are: Write your own program using and interface with CGI (For the diehard c/c++ programmers out there). Use a scripting language such as PHP (recomended). A lot of public webservers already have PHP installed, and if you're running your own then it's free. PHP files are just like html files, except you can include instructions to be carried out by the webserver (these will never be sent to the user). PHP's home site is www.php.net Regards
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