data management

[raffael3d]

How can you recall a data later that a user has entered at the beginnin?
On my first page the user will enter a value to estimate how many mistakes he is going to make in the following test. AFter submission (to what file shoudl it be submitted that it will be stored for use later?) he takes the test and then the results are displayed. Now he should be able to hit the button "statistics" where the page tells him how many mistakes he made and if he underestimated himself.
the problem is now how can I get the value the user entered at the very beginning?
thanks for any help

[Anon]

write it in a cookie, a database, a text file or pass the values through all sites till the last site

[raffael3d]

Thanks. I tried it with sending the data through each page. But it didn't work. I'm not too good in php, could you tell me the code how I can transfer it through the page?
What I have so far: in the first page you enter it. So with the form and submit the variable "$w1" can be displayed on the second page. BUT it should only be saved on the second page and be displayed on the third.

[ccranium]

On the second page, inside your form, add a hidden input (input type="hidden") with the same name as it was on the first page and value="$yourVariable".

That way, when the user submits the test form, the value will be carried through to the third page.

[raffael3d]

Thanks. But now it only displays the whole thing. what's wrong?
here what I entered in the second page:

<form action="end.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="w1" value="$w1"><p>
<input type="submit" value="go to statistics">
</form>

so on the first page the user enters the value using the <input type="w1"
If I transfer the value to the third page (end.php) then it apperars: "the user has chosen $w1" , but there should be the number, what's wrong now?

[Anon]

man, escpape from html to php with

<input name="w1" value="<? echo $w1; ?>">