form to email/passing variables

[cadams]

I want to develop a form to email script. The initial screen would have a drop-down list of about 6 items and fields to fill in personal information. The user fills in the personal information and selects one of the items. The user would then be taken to another page that has text area boxes, related to the previous selected item, that they could fill in. They might then be given the option to select another item and go through the process again.

Eventually, the form would be submitted, retaining all the personal information and choices that the user has made.

Are there some web tutorials or helpful sites that can give me some ideas on how to do this? I am somewhat familiar with variables and hidden fields, but I don't really know how to map this out.

Thanks for any help.

[rehfeld]

sorry dont know of any tutorials, but i can recomend you should learn to use sessions if you want your forms to span multiple pages. yes you can do it with hidden fields, but it gets very complicated.

sessions make it very easy.

then the basic logic is as follows

if (fields validate and we are ready to move to next part of form) {
    // display next form
} else {
    // report errors and make them fix it.
}

just start with a VERY simple, 2 page form. once you get that going, and have a handle on using sessions, you should be able to introduce dynamically created forms into the logic.