Mike Ryan wrote:
I am creating a series of forms that collect information this covers 3
screens before I want to write it out to the database. when I go from one
screen to the next I have tried hidden and readonly input boxes but the data
in the hidden and readonly fields from screen one do not make it to the
final page.
Is there a way to get the data from page one without letting the users
modify the information. I guess I could write the data to the database but
how do I find the record number of the data I just wrote so that I can
update the information, will php tell me the record number? I am using php
5.2.1 and mysql 5.x
I'd write a class to handle the submissions; I pretty much always do
this with forms. Instantiate the object on the first submit, populate
with whatever from form 1, do your validation, store the object in the
session and display form 2. Repeat.
You could give the class methods to handle setting each field and
validation methods for each form. When all is done, call persist() and
you're done.
Just remember to include() your class file before calling session_start().
As an aside, whenever i'm displaying a form i instantiate the class
first. This way, my form markup can have, eg:
<input type="text" name="foo" value="<?= my_class->getFoo() ?>" />
so that on the first pass the empty object returns NULL. When i want to
re-display the form (because there was an error somewhere) the
already-populated vars are written back to the form.
brian
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