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Posted by Jim Moseby on 10/21/09 11:22
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Jackson [mailto:jackson.linux@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 3:47 PM
> To: php >> "[php] PHP General List"
> Subject: Re: [PHP] 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
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