Losing parts of my data through re $_POST

[Stilter]

To start off - I'm so new, I'm still shiny on the bottom. :o

I am trying to create a moderately complex set of consecutive forms in order to provide a quote for customers to a retail business site. Input data from the first form (page1.html) is sent via the POST method to the action=page2.phtml (.phtml according to my server-god: Brian). All the data is parsed correctly from page1 to page2. Most of the data is used to create further questions before going to the final page (quote.phtml) .

I use this: $heat_system=$_POST["heat_system"]; to retrieve the data on page2 and then the data that needs to be sent again is sent using echo '<input type="hidden" name="heat_system" value=" '.$heat_system.' " />';
Again the method is POST and action=quote.phtml.

The problem is when the data string from page1 contains two or more words, only the first word arrives on the last page - quote.phtml. (i.e. $heat_system='No Heat') 'No Heat' arrives fine on page2.phtml but when sent along to quote.phtml $heat_system only receives 'No'.

What happened to the last part of my string and why?

Thanx

[johnnyr55]

How are you retrieving the variable on the third page. If you use $heat_system=$_POST["heat_system"]; comment on the second page towards the beginning it will again store the variable and you can pass it how you want to again. That seems to work for me.. hope that helps if not lemme know because it seems to work for me... John

ps take a look at the zip attached