On 27 Jul 2005, at 21:22, Jack Jackson wrote:
Right. Except I would rather have it working in a session because I
specifically do not want to have the form sending $_POST data back
and forth to the browser six times for several reasons. SO I'd like to
Page1 // User enters first batch of data, presses SUBMIT at bottom.
Data is cleaned and written to SESSION, user passed to Page2
repeat as necessary to last page. At last page, process and error
check newest input, then commit it, plus all previously stored
session info to db.
As has also been said, Javascript can do this really nicely. The best
example I've seen of this is in Mambo's (a popular PHP CMS) admin
interface. It uses a tabbed multi-page form with client-side
validation. It's really just one big page, so if the user has JS
turned off, they will get one big form with no client-side
validation, but it will still work. It's a really elegant way of
working. It doesn't require any server interaction between pages -
nothing is submitted until the form is complete.
See here for a howto: http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/10483/1763/
page/1
Admittedly this approach doesn't easily allow to you abandon and
resume later (unless you get clever with JS and cookies).
For keeping data in a session, you could combine this approach with
Ajax: http://particletree.com/features/smart-validation-with-ajax
Marcus
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