Check form data then pass variables to next page

dakey

Hello, i have a normal form when the user selects submit it calls the function on the same page to validate the form. My problem is when the form is validated how do i pass all those varables to another page where i can process that information further?

Note: my form is very large with about 20 different fields!

Example code

<?php
      /* What should we do? */
     $action=$_POST['a'];
	if ($action == 'error_check') {
	require_once('include/errorcheck.php');
                        //If no errors, go to confirm details
	        if ($errors==0) {
                        // need to pass all the variables to the next page here
                        }
                }
?>
<html><body>
<form name="form1" method="POST" action="index2.php">
<input name="deposit" type="text" id="deposit" value="<?php echo $deposit ?>">
<input name="phonenumber" type="text" id="phonenumber" value="<?php echo $phonenumber; ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="a" value="error_check">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body</html>

devinemke

sessions

dakey

Thanks, but since i have about 20-30 fields that would just be a pain to have a session variables for each one, and then having to distroy them again later on.

I did look into assigning an array to a session but couldn't get it to work, this is probably because i didn't know what i was doing.

Could you confirm this is the only way to do this. i.e have a session variable for each field.

devinemke

dakey wrote:
Thanks, but since i have about 20-30 fields that would just be a pain to have a session variables for each one, and then having to distroy them again later on.

why is it a "pain"? it does not matter if you have 20 fields or 2000 fields, they can all go into a session with two simple lines of code:

session_start();
$_SESSION = $_POST;