# Building dynamic pages

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/building-dynamic-pages/123524>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [September 24, 2004, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/building-dynamic-pages/123524 "2004-09-24T13:30:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![mathagat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@mathagat](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mathagat)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/building-dynamic-pages/123524/1 "2004-09-24T13:30:01Z")

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[font=verdana, arial, helvetica][size=2]I am in the early stages of my learning process w/ PHP and MySQL.

I need a good alternative solution to updating an events page on a site I administer. Typically I am keying in changes to the HTML itself on this page via Dreamweaver. What I would like to do is create an HTML form that I can have on a secure page (I’ve got the user authentication stuff figured out) which I can use to update this event list. Basically only 2 fields, one for the title and one for the info. When I submit this info I would like to have it go to a table in my MySQL db, then have the events page update based on the info in the db.

Any advice in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!

- What would really be sweet is if I could use a form field similar to this one that I am composing this post in. Then I could update w/ HTML instead of just plain text. Any ideas on accomplishing that?[/size][/font]