Hi Everyone,
I am hoping you guys may be able to guide me somewhat in my quest to learn, and get a job done. I was hired at my work to do a lot internal work, and other things by the head of Communications. Unfortunately, because I was not hired by the development team, and instead a non-tech brand of my workplace I have a big problem when it comes to a lot of work related issue. For example (and this is a big one):
I HAVE NO ACCESS TO SERVER SIDE SCRIPTING OR DATABASES!
Problem? Yes it is, because my boss wants to get things done like being able to have a section where she fills out a form, hits submit and then it sends out an e-mail to everyone. I could do this easily with PHP, or ASP but due to the fact I am limited to XHTML, CSS, Javascript, XML, and Actionscript (although flash is considered unstable here, so it's not overly recommended.)
I have heard and read things that I can do something with Ajax, where the form would save straight to an XML file, foregoing my need of a database. However, everything I've found usually has a PHP file associated with it.
I also know that I can take XML and post it onto a page without the need of server side scripting, and I've done it before.
So my question is, do you guys know if it is possible to update/create a xml file with only javascript/ajax? If so, do you know where I could go to learn this. I've read a few books, but everything I get to, reverts to either ASP and PHP, which doesn't fly here.
Any help would be huge!
Thanks a lot,
Andrew Kelly