title: Generic HTML Form Processor: A versatile PHP script to save web-collected data into a MySQL database.
abstract: The customizable PHP script Generic HTML Form Processor is intended to assist researchers and students in quickly setting up surveys and experiments that can be administered via the Web. This script relieves researchers from the burdens of writing new CGI scripts and building databases for each Web study. Generic HTML Form Processor processes any syntactically correct HTML forminput and saves it into a dynamically created open-source database. We describe five modes for usage of the script that allow increasing functionality but require increasing levels of knowledge of PHP and Web servers: The first two modes require no previous knowledge, and the fifth requires PHP programming expertise. Use of Generic HTML Form Processor is free for academic purposes, and its Web address is www.goeritz.net/brmic.
authors.affiliation: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany. anja.goeritz@wiso.uni-erlangen.de
authors.forename: Anja S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Göritz
authors.forename: Michael H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Birnbaum
mesh_terms: D019992:Databases as Topic; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software