Fill up form with NEXT & PREV

[alcibar]

I have a table named users with almost 40 fields. This is for sign-up process. I want that when a user try to sign-up, he will go through a series of steps.
Let's say Step 1 is only for personal info, then at the bottom there's a NEXT button which will go to Step 2 for additional info, for example. And in Step 2 there found a SIGN ME UP button which will take the action to insert into the database. I have no idea on how does the data he filled up in Step 1 be inserted into the database.
NOTE: An example like this can be found at http://www.truebeginnings.com/signup.htm

Please provide any tutorial about this one if any.

Thanks.

[drew010]

when they submit the first page of the form you could populate hidden form fields in the second form, so when they submit that the values from page 1 go with it or you can use sessions to store the data during signup and when they hit the final submit button, send all the session variables into a query.

[alcibar]

Is there any tutorial for this?

Thanks!

[drew010]

i havnt seen any tutorials but you might try searching google for something like 'php multiple page forms'.

a quick example of what i mean was this:

-page1.php
<form method="POST" action="page2.php">
Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br />
Email: <input type="text" name="email"><br />
<input type="submit" value="next">
</form>

-page2.php
//validation stuff here.

<form method="final.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="name" value="<?php echo $POST['name']; ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="name" value="<?php echo $POST['email']; ?>">
Address: <input type="text" name="address"><br />
<input type="submit" value="finish">
</form>

or the session method would be
same page1.php
-page2.php
<?php
session_start();
$SESSION['name'] = $POST['name'];
$SESSION['email'] = $POST['email'];
?>
page2 form here

-final.php
<?php
session_start();
$SESSION['address'] = $POST['address'];

//sql insert here using session vars
?>

[alcibar]

Thanks a lot. I really helps.

[Weedpacket]

Though if you're using session variables to store stuff, you don't need to also put it in hidden form fields; in fact, it's a good idea not to, as hidden form fields have the potential to be corrupted.