Passing Variables from a form to multiple pages

ihenman

OK... Hope someone can help me with this.

I have a form that takes a large amount of data from a user... Then passes it to a verfication screen where the info is echo'd back to the user and they have the option to go back and edit the form if they so wish...

this is the code I use to do that..

echo "<FORM><INPUT TYPE='button' VALUE='Edit Information' onClick='history.go(-1);return true;'></FORM><br>";

now if everything is fine and nothing needs to be edited below the above button is another one allowing the user to submit their info... the code is as follows.

echo "<FORM action='mail.php'><INPUT TYPE='submit' VALUE='submit information </FORM><br>";

so the first HTML form passes the variables to a verfication.php file... then that file uses the bottom form&submit buttons to pass to Mail.php which sends the administrator an email containing all the variables from the original form... but none of the variables get passed to MAIL.php... why? is their a way to do this or do I need to somehow have one page handle the verfication, editing of info and submission? Thanks in advance!

eoghain

In your second form you need to have <INPUT type=hidden> tags for all of the fields on your original form. Or you need to setup a session and register all of those values and access the session variables in your mail.php to send the email. I'd suggest that you use the 1st method as it's simpler.

jpmoriarty

in the form on your second page you'll need to recreate all the variables from the last page as hidden inputs - then they'll be sent to the third page as you wanted.

cgraz

The easiest way to do this is using a loop. I used to do this manually for each variable and it was a $#Q^%#. try this


foreach($_POST as $key => $value) {
   echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"" . $key . "\" value=\"" . $value . "\">\n";
}

Put that on each page you want to pass the information to the next within your form tag.

Cgraz