I'm not sure if you understand well what I'm trying to ask.
I saw people asking for help to create html forms and make they work only with that. Is that possible? I thought a programming language like php, cgi and others were needed for that.

You can create it, but for it to work you'd need a CGI or php script. You actually have to send the data somewhere, and html alone cannot do that for you.

google for the HTML-tag "FORM". use either PHP or any server-side scripts. and possibly MySQL too.

MySQL has nothing to do with forms :P A server side script gets the data from the forms, validates it and sends it to the database if instructed to do so.

HTML alone can't work with forms. It can just show them. To validate a form it's best to use a Client Side Scripting Language like JavaScript.

Client-side validation should never replace server-side validation. JavaScript, for example, is easily disabled and you should not assume that your scripts will always receive data from the forms you have designed.

nice point there blokey.

technically it has.

we use forms for user to enter data. now, you could save the data to a text file (which can easily be hacked) or have it stored safely with databases like postgre, or MySQL.

who disagrees?

You can use mySQL to take the data from a form and to insert it into table rows that you have defined.

forms are created using html, the functionality they perform are usually handled by server side scripting like php, .net etc for example, you have a form, which ask for data and send this data for processing somewhere in the system. You will use html for form, but to send the data, or process it, some serverside scripting language will be used.

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You can create a form to generate an email, but without server side scripts, that's about the only thing you can do.

HTML and CSS can only be used to create beatiful form on webpages to collect data. Processing the data is handle by programming/ scripting languages that may connect to MYSQL.

Forms will be useless without programming/ scripting languages to process its data