Creating Secure Form that Outputs from a Database?

I need to create a form that pulls data from a database (of any format) based on what the user enters. Specifically, I want a customer to be able to enter their name in a field and output data based on their name. I was about to use a standard PHP mail form methodology, but I realize this would be insecure (I would like to keep my customer list hidden). Can someone offer a suggestion on what I should look for in creating a secure form/database output structure for my site? Even if it's just the name of the method so I can search for a tutorial. Thank you!

Does it matter that anyone could enter the right name in the form to return the customer data? If so you need to use a password.
1. Create a form through which the customer can register their details with a user name and password.
2. On the server side hash the password with something like SHA256 (plenty of open source implementations about or you can create your own).
3. Store the customer details together with a userid and hashed password in the server database
4. Create a form through which the customer can request their details, and asks them for their userid and password.
6. On the server side, rehash the password from the form and request a row from the customer database where the userid and hashed password match an entry
7. Return the customer data if row retrieved from database else return a message saying on data matching those details etc.
Regards
Phil

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1 - I make the form in dreamweaver
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4 - Create the result page
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In my company, we use Formular to define the data we wish to collect. We do this in XML. The XML is pretty straight forward to grasp. Formular uses this XML to generate the actual HTML form so you do not need to build several JSPs for each form you display. Formular handles multiple pages gracefully.
After building a few forms this way, you quickly learn ways to save time by establishing a library of commonly used components such as data field validators.
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The Formular package allows you to reuse those.
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I use the XML file custom parameters for this (these params and their values are invisible to the user but accessible by the generic form handler that comes with the package).
You might use these to specify the table you want that form to be posted into, and also maybe even specify exactly which fields.
For our usage, this package is of great value, and we found the licensing costs very attractive. A license is around 43 dollars per site if I remember well.
For the amount of work you put in, I'd recommend this software for you to evaluate.

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Total
a
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2
3
6
b
0
3
4
7
c
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3
4
8
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Rangel, Antonio
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Providence College
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10.50
1
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Providence College
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Curtis, Brandon
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You think it would be the other way around.
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On the Mac, with its bigger screen, typing directly into a data table often works well enough.
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7    select '231-1154', to_date('9-Sep-2007','dd-Mon-yyyy'), 'Request info' from dual union all
8    select '234-1111', to_date('5-Dec-2007','dd-Mon-yyyy'), 'Order product' from dual union all
9    select '234-1131', to_date('7-Dec-2007','dd-Mon-yyyy'), 'Request info' from dual union all
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11    select '234-1111', to_date('8-Jan-2008','dd-Mon-yyyy'), 'Order product' from dual union all
12    select '234-1131', to_date('3-Dec-2007','dd-Mon-yyyy'), 'Request info' from dual union all
13    select '231-1154', to_date('4-Nov-2007','dd-Mon-yyyy'), 'Forward to Sales' from dual)
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