Multi Page Forms

[pwill69]

I currently have a large one-page form that takes in the user data (does some brief validation) and then writes to the database.

I'd like to be able to break my large form up into multiple pages using the continue button on the first page and then using Continue and Back buttons on subsequent pages.

I've gone through a number of the messages here but I can't seem to find something that really pulls it all together for me -- do I use Sessions and Cookies or querystrings, etc.

I'm looking for the easiest way possible to do this -- I just want to pass the data along to the other pages and then write it at the end when they hit submit. AND I want to be able to do this with minimum alternation to my existing HTML code.

All help is appreciated!

[jrottman]

do something like this:

if (!$form) {
echo "<form action=$PHP_SELF method=post>";
echo "Do some form stuff here";
echo "<input type=hidden name=form value=2>";
echo "<input type=submit value=continue>
//the above tells it to jump to form 2
echo "</form>";
}

if ($form == "2") {
echo "<form action=$PHP_SELF method=post>";
echo "Do some form stuff here";
echo "<input type=hidden name=form value=3>";
echo "<input type=submit value=continue>
//the above tells it to jump to form 3
echo "</form>";
}

if ($form == "3") {
echo "<form action=$PHP_SELF method=post>";
echo "Do some form stuff here";
echo "<input type=hidden name=form value=done>";
//the above tells it that the form is done, time to submit
echo "<input type=submit value=Submit>
echo "</form>";
}

if ($form == "done") {
// do stuff here with the info
}