Posted by David Grant on 11/29/05 19:01

Personally, I'd keep it all in the session and write at the end, but
this approach has at least two drawbacks:

1. The user cannot complete the process at a later point.
2. You cannot conduct analysis of part-completed data.

Cheers,

David Grant

afan@afan.net wrote:
> Hi to all!
> I have form made on 4 pages (by groups of questions). Right now my code
> works this way: once somebody submit the first page of the form his/her
> submitted info is entered in database with status=temp. I store the ID
> (insert_id()) in session and then every time visitor submit the next
> page I do update of the current record using ID.
> But, I heard once that "the best" solution is store all entered info in
> session (array) and insert all info at once.
> Or, instead in sessions, move submitted info with serialized array.
>
> Opinions?
>
> Thanks for help.
>
> -afan
>


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