Best way to pass data?

Jhorra

Hello all,

Here is some background to my question. I am working with two tables, one holds the users name and login id. The second holds the users address information. Many times several people in the same household will all have usernames, thus the second table. The users table will have a parent_id that links to an address in the address table. This way when someone pulls up the address list I can link everyone who lives at a particular address and group them together.

Now the problem.

When they register they fill out a form. Using the $_post() I pass the information to the second page which checks to see if someone else with the same last name has registered. If someone has it sends them to a page to confirm whether or not they live at that address. If no one has it sends them to complete the address information.

How do I now pass their user information to that third page? I can't register it in the database because I haven't determined what address to link them to. Is there a command or function that I can use to pass this data to the third page?

tekky

on the 2nd page set hidden form fields with names that match the vars you are trying to pass on to page3 and set their values to the $vars..... then when they submit the page, it will $_POST it to page3

bird_boy

One question... what are you planning to do when your db gets big enough that last names become a pain to compare for the user? i.e Smith, Jones, etc. Or do you anticipate your db being small enough that this will not be a problem?😃

Jhorra

Well it's a webiste for our church. We have about 60 or so people in the church right now. By the time we have gotten so big that I can't compare last names I will probably have rebuilt the site several times. I have only been using PHP for a week now. I already know some things I want to change, but for now I am trying to keep it somewhat simple.

Jhorra

Originally posted by tekky
on the 2nd page set hidden form fields with names that match the vars you are trying to pass on to page3 and set their values to the $vars..... then when they submit the page, it will $_POST it to page3

The user will never see the second page. It just directs to that so it can verify the information and using if statements it determines where it needs to send them next.

tekky

Originally posted by Jhorra
The user will never see the second page. It just directs to that so it can verify the information and using if statements it determines where it needs to send them next.

then use sessions vars 😉