Populating form variables to >1 PHP page

Anon

Here's what I'm working with:
1. An end user puts information into an HTML form (in this case, the number of windows in their house).
2. The end user clicks [Submit] and receives an estimate for window cleaning based on the number of windows in their house (in the meantime, their information gets stored in a MySQL database).
3. Once the end user gets their window cleaning estimate, I want them to be able to schedule an appointment on-line. I provide a link from the first PHP page (described in step 2) to another HTML form page.
4. End user selects the date and time that they want to schedule their appointment and clicks [Submit] which takes them to the second PHP page which lists the date and time of their appt.

My Question: How do I carry-over the variables defined in the first form to the second PHP page? More specifically, when the end user schedules an appointment, I want the final PHP page to contain all their information (name, address, # of windows) that they've provided to that point. I really don't want to require them to have a user/pass which would identify a row in the db, but rather pass the variables from the 2 HTML forms to the 2nd PHP page.

How do I do this?

thanks,
jason

ace21

look up sessions in php4.

Ace21

Anon

just as ace says -
either use cookies or session

sessions are much more flexible, IMO

before ANY html input (ie before ) you must start a session
session_start();

then whenever you want to save a variable,
session_register("var");
(no $ sign)
reverse is true to session_unregister("var") a var or session_unset() all session vars.
Any $var in a session can be called simply by $var, unless you have register_globals set to off, in which case you call them by $HTTP_SESSION_VARS[$var1]
(the syntax on that may be wrong)

anyroad - have a looksie through sessions.

Anon

Another way of persistance is Hidden form fields.