> -----Original Message----- > From: Jack Jackson [mailto:jackson.linux@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 3:47 PM > To: php >> "[php] PHP General List" > Subject: Re: Multipage form redux > > > hi, my first attempt at a sessions-based form is starting at > > http://pastebin.com/322696 > > and I have a question. What I want to do is, after the user > answers the > questions in section one and they are error checked, I want > to write the > answers to $_SESSION() and then continue down the script to the next > page of questions. I do *not* want to re-send the answers > from page one > as $_POST vars back to the user and have the user submit the > answers to > page 2 plus the $_POST answers from page 1. > > > > What I am doing now is clearly wrong, basically : > > if (empty($error)) { > include_once($page2); > } > > because that's keeping it all in one script. But how should I > be getting > to the next page, sending headers to a new script, and at the > end of the > chain the script which pulls it all together? > > Thanks in advance, > > JJ This seems so simple to me. As I understand it, you want to split a data entry session into several pages. You don't want to collect the data and submit it all at the end, but instead commit it to session variables along the way. Am I missing something? Here's how I would do it in a nutshell: Page1 // User enters first batch of data, presses SUBMIT at bottom. Data is POSTed to Page2 Page2 // Commit data from page 1 to session variables, then displays form for next batch of data. User presses SUBMIT, posts data to Page 3. Page3 // Commit data from page 2 to session variables, then displays form for next batch of data. User presses SUBMIT, posts data to Page 4. ... etc etc etc (Each page begins by assigning data from the previous page to session variables) Page515 // Displays all session variables set in previous pages, asks user to confirm. User confirms by pressing SUBMIT, confirmation POSTed to page 516, who writes it all to the database, and sends confirmation email. Personally, I would take the advice of a previous poster and start off assigning a username and password to the user. Then store each page in the database as the user progresses. That way, if he is interrupted in the middle of the process, he won't lose all his data and have to start over. He can just enter his username and pick up where he left off. You will just have to write a script that purges old incomplete records. (A great job for cron!) JM -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
