session please help

[thomasanup]

friends, i have a problem

I have to develop a user registration process having 4 steps(4 pages).The registraion would be finished only after finishing all the 4 steps.So i require the details from page1 in the page4.Is there any way to do this other than using session variables and hidden variables.As the session variables take a lot of server memory in this case.Please help

[alfoxy]

cookies ?

[grafnic]

Anup

U could pass the value U require from each page to the next using the URL, e.g.

www.myweb.com/usereg.php?Name=Fred&Surname=Smith
{Where Name and Surname are the values U are passing.}

U can get the values when U get to the next page using the PHP interal variable

$get_value = $HTTP_GET_VARS['Name'];
$get_value2 = $HTTP_GET_VARS['Surname'];

This would return Fred and Smith

Only problem with this method is that the values are passed in full view in the URL. OK if they are sensitive info !!

Otherwise U could U cookies.

Nic

[Anon]

If session variables are going to take up a lot of server memory (how?) then I doubt there'd be room in the URL for all the data. And using cookies would mean trucking all that data out to the browser and reading it back every time it's needed.

I'd store the data for the registration-in-progress in a database if I can't use session variables.