Any intelligent way for Preview, before submiting?

[Anon]

hi,
i have a form, which gets the data from user. there is a textarea which allows a heavy text entry.

after completing form, i display a 'Preview' page, and then allow the user to submit.

i am passing the values from first page to Preview page via HIDDEN type fields. and then they are passed to submiting which stores the data to db.

its all fine, but i was wondering that the text data is actually written twice to the preview page, (displayed one) and in HIDDEN fields. is there any other better way to handle this?

thanks,
Daarius ...

[Anon]

I guess you could do a session, register everything as a session variable, and just pass them along that way. Seems like a little bit of overkill though.

I'd be interested in responses to this too.. I'm doing the same thing and am wondering how to handle it best.. I have like 30 or so fields, and some arrays that will need passing to a preview/confirmation page..

[Anon]

i am not very experienced in sessions... but i will try them and see how it goes.

[Anon]

I am not sure if you want to do it this way, but you could echo the values back into the same form, so they could be edited if needed...

[Anon]

In Preview view the typed text is shown in rich text format. i.e. inside the chosen webpage theme. so, i dont have any more forms in preview view. Only Back button is provided to click, and go back to edit if neeeded.