PHP Design Question

[TheWaterboy08]

I am currently designing a site that uses PHP, MySql and HTML.
I need some advice on how to do this.

Basically a user is given 5 headings and each heading has a different number of subheading - they check a checkbox to select a subheading. They must check at least one checkbox and at max will select one checkbox from each heading.

For each box they check a separate details page will need to be displayed. So if they check 1 box, just one page will be displayed, two check boxes, two different pages will be displayed one after the other etc..

How would anybody suggest i implement this scenerio. I was thinking of displaying one page, a submit button, then the next page, another submit button etc. etc.

However where will i store the data for each page - should i store it in a datbase table (I need to display a confirmation page at the end and then send all the details to the site owner) or is there a better way of doing this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[drawmack]

I would use a database for this

[zigma]

I guess it's depend how important the information that your client selected.

If you require to pass form variable in multi pages and it's for temporary needs. I would recommend store those var at cookie. You could also use sessions, but I would recommend you to use cookie first since it should be easier.

the information stored at cookie is actually stored at client browser. It is possible to be manuplated by client. (If they know what they are doing)

If you use session. You only store session id at client browser and your site will get the session id and grab the content information (that match the id) from your server instead of client. Client can't manipulate the information since session id need to be unique and he/she will lose the variable if session id doesn't exists.

If you really need the info selected by client, you may store it at database at the very last page. (Grab the information from cookie or session)

Hope that helps