It's been a long time since i've gotten to play around with webpage creation. I am using .NET to create an intranet page for work. I have a part on the site with 3 text boxes and 1 save button. What I am wanting to do is when the user types in the "Contacts" and clicks the save button I want it to display what was typed in and save it so that when they view the page the content is always there.

I know a few things that I need...but I would greatly appreciate an example of this being done on a webpage. It doesnt matter whether it's in a VBScript or JAVAScript.

Well you two basic choices, do you want to save onto the server or onto the client, normally the server is best as otherwise your user will need to have low security settings for your site and they will only see their details if they use the same machine or you could use cookies which maybe disabled.

To save on the server you have two basic choices again, save to a full scale database, SQl Server, Oracle, Access etc. or just to a text file, maybe an XML file would be easier. Your decision depends on what software you have, how much data you intend to have (counting all users) and what you need to do with the data, is it just for the user or are you going to want to run reports and queries against it?
It seems like an overkill to use a database for just three names so an XML file might be easier.
As you are writing in .NET then it is simply a matter of checking, in the page load, whether this is a postback due to the save button being clicked or having an onclick on the save button. Then read the three values and construct an XML representation, something like:
Load this into an XmlDocument using LoadXml method and then save to a file using the login name of the use, e.g., fawcettj.xml.
The next time the page is loaded check if the xml file exists and if so load and read the contacts to populate the textboxes.



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Joe (Co-author Beginning XML, 3rd edition)