almost got it

[Anon]

I sort of figured out how to make my two pages that the user selects something work together, but i am on my 3rd page, I still need a variable from the first page that was passed on fine to the 2nd page. should this selection from the first page work and i'm doing something wrong on the 3rd page or do variables lose their passed value after the 3rd page?

[thedotproduct]

variables, unless re-posted, are lost after the page they're posted to. There's two ways around this:

1. Use sessions. Check the many tutorials and articles about them on this site.

2. Use an input tag. <input type="hidden" name="varname" value="value_to_pass">. While this method might be ok for just three pages, it'll start to get labourious after three or four pages.

In short, if you're only going for three pages, the input method is probably easier, but if you're going for more, use sessions.

[yurko]

Check "cookies" too.
Sometimes quite usefull thing 🙂