PHP Automatically Generate new pages

Question

I'm making a social network type site, where users can upload their items to be rated. However, I'm trying to improve the way the site is laid out, so want to automatically generate pages once the user inserts a new item. The add.php page has the following form:

<form action="add.php"  method="post"  autocomplete="on" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="<?php echo                  $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="POST" id="pic">
    <p> <label for="jname" class="iconic user"> Name of Jam <span class="required">*</span></label> <input type="text" name="jname" id="jname" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['jname'])) echo $_POST['jname']; ?>" required="required" placeholder="Input your Name of Jam here"  /> </p>

    <p> <select name="jtype" id="jtype" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['jtype'])) echo $_POST['jtype']; ?>" required="required">
            <option value="jam">Jam</option>
            <option value="jelly">Jelly</option>
            <option value="marmalade">Marmalade</option>
            <option value="preserve">Preserve</option>
        </select> </p>

    <p> <label for="producer" class="iconic user"> Jam Producer <span class="required">*</span></label>     <input type="text" name="producer" id="producer" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['producer'])) echo $_POST['producer']; ?>" required="required" placeholder="Input the producer of the Jam here"  /> </p>
    Upload a picture of your jam: </br> </br> <input name="userfile" type="file" /> </br>
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Register" />    
    <input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="TRUE" />

</form>

When the form is submitted, I then want it to generate a new page for that new user created item. Is there a fairly simple way of doing this?

Cheers

Answer 1

You don't have to actually 'create' new html page for each item.

You could save this information to database (mysql for example).

Then you could create another php file, say 'item.php' and access different entries from mysql database like so:

item.php?id=1

Answer 2

This generally isn't the way such sites are created. (i.e.: You don't generate the physical pages themselves at the point of form submission.) Instead, you'd usually store the form data in a database and then retrieve/display it based on the URL - either by decoding the URL itself via a "controller" or by using a query string variable such as ?producerid=x. This data would then be used to populate a template.

To be honest, I'd really recommend getting hold of a recent PHP book (as far as database access is concerned, you should be using PDO or MySQLi) or following some online tutorials - whilst it might initially seem like this won't be a meaningful form of progress, its likely to pay substantial dividends in the long run.