Using PHP forms

[berbbrown]

Can anyone help or point me in the right direction please?

I would like to split a PHP form into two pages which will have two tabs or buttons which when either one is clicked will display the correct options for that page.

My problem is how would I save the values between changing the tabs without saving the data to a database?

Would I have to use a cookie or can the form based fields be saved using an alternative method?

Any experts outthere?

Thanks in advance

BB

[Kudose]

You should pass all of your vaiables into the next form via submit, and on the page you pass the too include:

$variable1 = $HTTP_POST_VARS['variable1'];
$variable2 = $HTTP_POST_VARS['variable2'];

then the rest of your form.

Or you can have them like this:

<input type="hidden" value="<?= $variable1 ?>" name="variable1">
<input type="hidden" value="<?= $variable2 ?>" name="variable2">

etc...

[berbbrown]

If I have one page which is designed with two tabs or buttons which when clicked will give the impression that another page is displayed.

How would the field contents by kept between the changing of the tabs?

Thanks
BB

[batman]

Just as kudose answered. Say in your first page in the form you have two fields, one named test and the other test2. What you want to do is set the form action to post, then on the page that it gets redirected to include this at the top.

<?
$test = $_POST ['test'];
$test2 = $_POST ['test2'];
?>

Then anywhere in the page that you want to display those values, use this:

<?
echo "$test";
echo "$test2";
?>

-Blake

[Kudose]

I completely agree with batman.