Database to HTML in C#.NET

[SoundTheSurrender]

What would this be called.

You read a database that has some HTML code and display it as HTML?

Much like how forums work when a user posts a message with a image posted and stuff like that?

Thanks

 

[KLin]

A web application?

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

I know that.

I'm asking when someone posts something into a forum, how do I take that data from a database and make turn it into HTML code.

 

[DaveSimmons]

With code?

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Tell us more about what you want to do, and where / how the C# is running.

Is this an ASP.NET server where you want to respond to a page request by retrieving some content like a set of thread posts, and run the content through a filter to change [ b ] to < b > etc. after carefully validating the content against attacks / exploitst?

 

[CrazyLazy]

Pretty sure most forum software uses PHP. Could be wrong though.

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: CrazyLazy
Pretty sure most forum software uses PHP. Could be wrong though.

Most free forum software does!

 

[CycloWizard]

I've done this with aspx, php, and a combination of the two.

 

[clamum]

Yeeeahhh, need some more information about what you'd like to accomplish exactly. Sure you can grab information from an input form, write it to a database, and then write out the new change (in your forum example). It's not IMO a hugely complex thing but there's a lot of different smaller tasks to learn and be aware of (security is a good point as DaveSimmons mentioned).

 

[Markbnj]

When a client browser requests an HTML resource the web server simply reads the page off disk and sends it. When a browser requests an executable resource, such as .cgi, .aspx, .php, etc., the web server finds the referenced resource and executes it. That resource queries the database and formats the returned data into HTML or XML and hands it back to the web server. The server then returns it to the client. Round-trip complete.

 

[nakedfrog]

Maybe you could use a GridView?