I see. It sounds like the PHP server-side script should then have SQL commands in it, to write new data to the database. Right?
I am trying to find out which PHP file gathers the HTML data. In an example I found:
<form method="post" action="claim.php" name="ClaimForm" id="ClaimForm" autocomplete="on">
<fieldset>
<legend>Contact Details</legend>
<div>
<label for="firstname" accesskey="U">Your First Name</label>
<input name="firstname" type="text" id="firstname" placeholder="Enter your name" required />
</div>
etc...
In that first line it mentions the PHP file as claim.php However, the woocommerce plugin is missing that action field:
<form method="post">
<h3>
Billing Address
</h3>
<p id="billing_country_field" class="form-row form-row-wide address-field update_totals_on_change validate-required"></p>
<p id="billing_first_name_field" class="form-row form-row-first validate-required">
<label class="" for="billing_first_name">
First Name
<abbr class="required" title="required">
*
</abbr>
</label>
<input id="billing_first_name" class="input-text" type="text" value="John" placeholder="" name="billing_first_name"></input>
</p>
etc...
My question then is how to hunt this down. It seems like the environment is working just as you say, but I can not trace it.