form with page breaks

Azazeal

Here is a link to a php script that I need help with.
SCRIPT

I am a beginner, please be gentle.

It has 5 defined variables and is a form.
My goal is to have $V1,$V2 and $V3 on page one.
And $V4 and $V5 on page two.

Ideally, page one would have only a reset and next button and page two would have only a back, reset and submit button.
It seems that I want the page to call itself again, when the next button is hit, and display the next two variables. And the reverse if the back button is hit.

The processing script is written in perl and resides on a server in the UK. I am not worried about that though. I would just like to get the above form functions accomplished.

Any help would be great!!!
If possible, DL this script, take a look. And either post some comments on the procedure, or perhaps DL the script, make the changes and comment it all up..

Thank guys..and gals

sarahk

gently now, this is a php site, not a perl site...

so my answers are based around php...

You want to have a form with the first questions, buttons etc and it submits to your script. The script then either
saves the answers in a session
writes them to the next form as hidden inputs

then writes the new form with buttons etc.

ezpz

The second choice works for javascript too 🙂

Azazeal

thank you for the prompt reply.
Sorry if I was confusing. The question was about the form itself and not the perl script.
The ideal situation would to have all of the questions in a single php file. The respondent would answer a couple of questions, then hit next to take answer some more. At the last page, pass the hidden variables to the submission script to send as an email to the desired recipient.
The app is currently written in JavaScript, contained in three files.
I am looking to stray from JS and move to scrictly php.
I have a good feeling data can be contained in a single file, until submission.
Some like:

$V1 = "somestuff"
$V2 = "morestuff"

if($page == "2") {
echo "$V2";
}
else {
echo "$V1";
}

of something of that sort.

Thanks for the help

Azazeal

<BODY BGCOLOR = "#FFFFFF">
<FORM ACTION="http://www.snapsurveys.com/cgi-bin/subques.pl" METHOD=POST>
<?php

$V1="<TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" SUMMARY=\"Question\" WIDTH=\"100%\"><TR><TD> </TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" SUMMARY=\"Question\" WIDTH=\"100%\"><TR><TD WIDTH=\"100%\" ALIGN=\"CENTER\" VALIGN=\"TOP\"><FONT SIZE=\"6\" COLOR=\"#000000\" FACE=\"Arial\"><B>Test for Page Breaks</B></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>";
$V2="<TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" SUMMARY=\"Question\" WIDTH=\"100%\"><TR><TD COLSPAN=\"4\"> </TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" SUMMARY=\"Question\" WIDTH=\"100%\"><TR><TD ROWSPAN=\"3\" WIDTH=\"10%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"TOP\"><a name=\"Q1\"><FONT SIZE=\"2\" COLOR=\"#000000\" FACE=\"Arial\"><B>Q1</B></FONT></a></TD><TD COLSPAN=\"3\" WIDTH=\"90%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"TOP\"><FONT SIZE=\"2\" COLOR=\"#000000\" FACE=\"Arial\"><B>Are you male or female?</B></FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD ROWSPAN=\"2\" WIDTH=\"5%\"> </TD><TD WIDTH=\"85%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"BOTTOM\"><TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" SUMMARY=\"Code\" WIDTH=\"100%\"><TR><TD WIDTH=\"94%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"TOP\"><FONT SIZE=\"2\" COLOR=\"#000000\" FACE=\"Arial\"><I>Male</I></FONT></TD><TD WIDTH=\"6%\" ALIGN=\"RIGHT\" VALIGN=\"BOTTOM\"><input type=radio value=\"1\" name=\"V2\"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD WIDTH=\"85%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"BOTTOM\"><TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" SUMMARY=\"Code\" WIDTH=\"100%\"><TR><TD WIDTH=\"94%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"TOP\"><FONT SIZE=\"2\" COLOR=\"#000000\" FACE=\"Arial\"><I>Female</I></FONT></TD><TD WIDTH=\"6%\" ALIGN=\"RIGHT\" VALIGN=\"BOTTOM\"><input type=radio value=\"2\" name=\"V2\"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE>";
$V3="<TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" SUMMARY=\"Question\" WIDTH=\"100%\"><TR><TD COLSPAN=\"4\"> </TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" SUMMARY=\"Question\" WIDTH=\"100%\"><TR><TD ROWSPAN=\"6\" WIDTH=\"10%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"TOP\"><a name=\"Q2\"><FONT SIZE=\"2\" COLOR=\"#000000\" FACE=\"Arial\"><B>Q2</B></FONT></a></TD><TD COLSPAN=\"3\" WIDTH=\"90%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"TOP\"><FONT SIZE=\"2\" COLOR=\"#000000\" FACE=\"Arial\"><B>What is your age?</B></FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD ROWSPAN=\"5\" WIDTH=\"5%\"> </TD><TD WIDTH=\"85%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"BOTTOM\"><TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" SUMMARY=\"Code\" WIDTH=\"100%\"><TR><TD WIDTH=\"94%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"TOP\"><FONT SIZE=\"2\" COLOR=\"#000000\" FACE=\"Arial\"><I>Under 18</I></FONT></TD><TD WIDTH=\"6%\" ALIGN=\"RIGHT\" VALIGN=\"BOTTOM\"><input type=radio value=\"1\" name=\"V3\"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD WIDTH=\"85%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"BOTTOM\"><TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" SUMMARY=\"Code\" WIDTH=\"100%\"><TR><TD WIDTH=\"94%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"TOP\"><FONT SIZE=\"2\" COLOR=\"#000000\" FACE=\"Arial\"><I>18 to 24</I></FONT></TD><TD WIDTH=\"6%\" ALIGN=\"RIGHT\" VALIGN=\"BOTTOM\"><input type=radio value=\"2\" name=\"V3\"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD WIDTH=\"85%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"BOTTOM\"><TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" SUMMARY=\"Code\" WIDTH=\"100%\"><TR><TD WIDTH=\"94%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"TOP\"><FONT SIZE=\"2\" COLOR=\"#000000\" FACE=\"Arial\"><I>25 to 44</I></FONT></TD><TD WIDTH=\"6%\" ALIGN=\"RIGHT\" VALIGN=\"BOTTOM\"><input type=radio value=\"3\" name=\"V3\"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD WIDTH=\"85%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"BOTTOM\"><TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" SUMMARY=\"Code\" WIDTH=\"100%\"><TR><TD WIDTH=\"94%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"TOP\"><FONT SIZE=\"2\" COLOR=\"#000000\" FACE=\"Arial\"><I>45 to 60</I></FONT></TD><TD WIDTH=\"6%\" ALIGN=\"RIGHT\" VALIGN=\"BOTTOM\"><input type=radio value=\"4\" name=\"V3\"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD WIDTH=\"85%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"BOTTOM\"><TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" SUMMARY=\"Code\" WIDTH=\"100%\"><TR><TD WIDTH=\"94%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"TOP\"><FONT SIZE=\"2\" COLOR=\"#000000\" FACE=\"Arial\"><I>Over 60</I></FONT></TD><TD WIDTH=\"6%\" ALIGN=\"RIGHT\" VALIGN=\"BOTTOM\"><input type=radio value=\"5\" name=\"V3\"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE>";
$V4="<TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" SUMMARY=\"Question\" WIDTH=\"100%\"><TR><TD COLSPAN=\"3\"> </TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" SUMMARY=\"Question\" WIDTH=\"100%\"><TR><TD ROWSPAN=\"2\" WIDTH=\"10%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"TOP\"><a name=\"Q3\"><FONT SIZE=\"2\" COLOR=\"#000000\" FACE=\"Arial\"><B>Q3</B></FONT></a></TD><TD COLSPAN=\"2\" WIDTH=\"90%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"TOP\"><FONT SIZE=\"2\" COLOR=\"#000000\" FACE=\"Arial\"><B>What is your name?</B></FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD WIDTH=\"90%\" ALIGN=\"RIGHT\" VALIGN=\"BOTTOM\"><textarea rows=\"2\" cols=\"24\" name=\"V4\"></textarea></TD></TR></TABLE>";
$V5="<TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" SUMMARY=\"Question\" WIDTH=\"100%\"><TR><TD COLSPAN=\"3\"> </TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" SUMMARY=\"Question\" WIDTH=\"100%\"><TR><TD ROWSPAN=\"2\" WIDTH=\"10%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"TOP\"><a name=\"Q4\"><FONT SIZE=\"2\" COLOR=\"#000000\" FACE=\"Arial\"><B>Q4</B></FONT></a></TD><TD COLSPAN=\"2\" WIDTH=\"90%\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VALIGN=\"TOP\"><FONT SIZE=\"2\" COLOR=\"#000000\" FACE=\"Arial\"><B>What is your full address?</B></FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD WIDTH=\"90%\" ALIGN=\"RIGHT\" VALIGN=\"BOTTOM\"><textarea rows=\"5\" cols=\"24\" name=\"V5\"></textarea></TD></TR></TABLE>";

if($page == "2") {
echo "$V4 $V5";
echo "<a href=\"static.php?page=1\"><--Back</a>";
echo "<input type=\"submit\" value=\"submit\">";

}
else {

 echo "$V1 $V2 $V3";
 echo "<a href=\"static.php?page=2\">Next--></a>";

}

</form>

Above is the complete script...the back and forth of the pages works fine...although I would like the 'next' and 'back' to be standard html buttons.

The other issue is the hidden variables. V4, V5, EMAIL,SURVEY and USERID get passed. V2 and V3 get dropped upon submission.

I believe it is due to the page movement.

Any tips on the placement of the hidden fields would be great.

Thanks again!!!