hidden fields

[bav]

I've a question regarding hidden fields in the form.

I've a questionnaire and after a user fills it out, he can preview the answers before submitting.

What I want to ask is can I've 40-50 hidden fields in a form, which would then be submitted into the database?

[nangial]

Im pretty sure You can have as many hidden fields as You wish 🙂

Regards
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[matto]

be sure to use the post method, not get, in your form. data volume is limited when using get.

[bav]

But if I use "post method" then whenever a user clicks on the Back button of the browser the page says "page expired". However, with "get method" I dont face this problem.

Any other alternative?

[bav]

i found the answer in this forum only. I had to change
'session.cache_limiter = nocache' to

'session.cache_limiter = private, must-revalidate' in php.ini file

[darknuke]

or... you could make the hidden fields from a php script like, you could temporarily write to a file, so if the user goes back, all the data will be there...

like this:

<?

include "tempfile.php";

print "<input type=\"hidden\" value=\"$somevar\">";
/ right there it will include a null value so nothing will display, but if the user previously submitted data, it will display/

?>

well you get the point....