Multi-Page Form

[jonathen]

Hi all,

I need some help on a multi-page form I am working on. It is almost complete, but I cannot figure out how to get the final page to have the Finish button, and then write to db. An example of the script will make it clearer:

<?php
echo "<form action='myform.php' method='get'>";
if (!isset($pageno))
{
  $pageno = "1";
  echo "page 1 of form goes here";
}
else if ($pageno == "1")
{
  $pageno = "2";
  echo "page 2 of form goes here";
}
else if ($pageno == "2")
{
  $pageno = "3";
  echo "page 3 of form goes here";
}
else if ($pageno == "3")
{
  $pageno = "4";
  echo "page 4 of form goes here";
}
else if ($pageno == "4")
{
  $pageno = "5";
  echo "page 5 of form goes here";
}

echo "<input type='submit' name='cmdGo' value='Next >>'>";
echo "<input type='hidden' name='pageno' value='$pageno'>";
echo "</form>";
?>

Now that all works perfectly, carrying hidden fields over each page. However, what I want to do, is when page 5 (final page) is viewed, have the "Next >>" button changed to "Finish" which then submits all the data to the db, and prints out a confirmation.

However, no matter what I have tried using else statements and so on, I can't get it to work.

Any ideas?

Many thanks,

Jonathen

[sgoku01]

You could use this:

if ( $pageno == "4" )
{
echo "<form action='update_db.php' method='get'>";
}
else
{
echo "<form action='myform.php' method='get'>";
}

(....) Your code (...)

if ( $pageno == "4" )
{
echo "<input type='submit' name='cmdGo' value='FINISH'>";
}
else
{
echo "<input type='submit' name='cmdGo' value='Next >>'>";
}

It's not the best-looking option, but I think it has to work 🙂

[jonathen]

Thank you - that seems to make sense...will give it a try now.

fingers crossed

🙂

[viasuk]

You could do the multipage form all on the client-side using visibility: hidden <DIV>s. A couple of buttons <BACK and NEXT> in each DIV with a <BACK and SUBMIT button on the last page. Then the whole lot goes in one round trip.

[jonathen]

Unfortunately that's not really an option now, because the form has 149 input fields, and after creating all of them, and then hidden fields to reflect each former page on each next page, I could not face starting again!

[cgraz]

You didn't manually make the hidden input fields, did you? All you need is a loop to catch all the values into a hidden input that gets passed to the next page. Then on the last page, you have all the values there.

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

Place that right before your </form> tag on each page except the first and that's all you need to do to get all the values, without manually creating the hidden inputs. On the last page, you can use another loop to insert the values into the db.

Cgraz

[jonathen]

Doh! If only I had known! Ah well, that's something to bear in mind for the future; thank you for that 🙂

[cgraz]

I didn't learn about loops until after I had made a multi-page form with only about 20 hidden input fields. I was pretty mad I did all that work; I couldn't imagine 149 🙁

Cgraz