Sending POST form data in PHP

Anon

Does anyone know how to send a bunch of variables from one .php page to another? I know there is this method:

but is there another method that does not require URL encoding? Can I just post it to the other .php? I would like to do this automatically... have the user fill out a form, which submits all their data to a form checking .php... if the checks fail (missing an email address, for example) then send them back to the form, but send all their original data with it.... All automatically without making them click a link or submit a form.

Any ideas?

-Kimball

Anon

you could look into storing the values in a session...

-paul
http://xhawk.net

Anon

Forgive my newbieness... but how do I start up a session and stick variables into it? Is there a tutorial somewhere that I could read? I understand session management pretty well, but I have never done it in php...

-Kimball

Anon

the manual is always a good place to start

http://php.net/manual/en/

im sure you could find a session article on phpbuilder too....

davidqxo

In PHP4 you can do:

<?php
// first.php: get form entries and any validation error messages
session_start ();
// ... call your validation routine ...
$vars = array ($name, $address, $error_msg);
// Save variables for later use in other script.
session_register ('vars[]');
// Start other script.
header ('Location: second.php');
exit;
?>

<?php
// second.php
session_start ();
$name = $vars[0];
$address = $vars[1];
$error_msg = $vars[2];
?>