Lazy wizard implementation

[Anon]

I want to use PHP to build a wizard that guides users (employees) through all variables needed to enter DSL orders. There is a frightening number of fields needed to be filled in.

1) How can you make information live throughout the wizard? That is, do I need to pass all information from every page alle the way through the wizard?

I can't be the first in the world having this problem: Any tricks you use to save you from having to type:
<input type="hidden" name="blah blah">
thousands of times???

[reagent]

You are correct that one way of doing it would be to use hidden fields to propagate your variables.

Have you considered using sessions to achieve the same result?

if you have a text field called "ffName"
you can store it in $sesArrFormData["ffName"]

then you can process all the data stored in the session at the end of the wizard.

after every form submission using code like
session_start();
session_register("sesArrFormData");

foreach ($HTTP_SESSION_VARS as $strKey => $strValue)
{
$sesArrFormData[$strKey] = $strValue;
}

.....

and so on

p.