Well im just a young high school kid and i have heard from several occasions from my web design teacher that its possible to hook up an access database to a web form so whenever a user submits information from that web form it is transferred into the access database. the unfortunate part of this is i have very little access experience or anything else to do with databases. I am however very good with basic HTML.

The main thing i was wondering is if someone could tell me what linking a database in this manner would be called (since that would help me search a tutorial on it) and if at all possible a tutorial or advice on where i could start to learn to do just that.

My apologies if this is in a wrong location as I've only just recently been here

thanks,

And what server side code would you be using?

ASP, ASP.NET, PHP etc

well to be honest I'm unsure, I'm really very new at any server coding, all i know is HTML and a little VB and C++ which aren't that useful here. ill ask my teacher tomorrow about it and try to edit this with more details, any recommendations for a language would be nice though

I'd go with asp.net; you can use VB, C++, or C# for that. Chris will take me to task for saying this, but there isn't a lot of reason to learn asp 3.0 at this point. People who already know it are getting a lot of mileage out of it still, but there isn't much demand in the market for asp compared to asp.net.

The html itself can't talk to a database. You use a server side language to talk to the end user and to the database, like a proxy running messages back and forth between the two. It uses html to talk to the person's web browser, and then depending on what you pick, it uses some method of talking to the database. Asp used ado and dao before it, asp.net uses ado.net which is a great deal more mature as a technology.

If you know html pretty well, you're probably familiar with forms and posting or submitting the data somewhere else. Whether you go with asp, php, or even cgi, you're mainly going to write code to accept the data a user posts, do something with it, and then craft an answer in html for them.

Ok thanks, i think i know what i need to do, but i poorly explained the task in the firstplace.

i would have like a survey online and depending on the input recieved from this survey it would download itself into an access database file.

Use Visual Web Developer. It's free, it's an integrated development environment with inbuilt database support. It's for writing server side code that talks to databases and makes html.