Multiple forms/Multiple Submit Buttons

focus310

Hello:

I have a form consisting of five pages. I don't want to program all five pages in one script because it's too much scrolling. So, I'm creating five form scripts, one for each page.

When I reach page 2, I would like to show a button which will bring people back to Page 1 and a second button which will bring them to Page 3.

Is it possible to do this? If so, how?

Thank you for the help.

big_nerd

focus310,

Yes

// All Form data here
<form name="blah" method="post" action="the rest of it">
<button name="Back" type"button" onclick="javascript: history.go(-1)">Back</button>&nbsp; <input type="submit" name="submit">
</form>

Now, instead of going back, I would recommend using sessions to store all of the data, and using a location.href or something to that effect.

If you look up the Button attribute, I'm sure you will find something that works.

focus310

Hi,

Thank you for the reply.

Yes, I am using sessions. I want the user to be able to go back and not lose any of their information. I just know how to write the button to do that and where to place it in the script.

focus310

I've applied sessions to my script. I'm having no trouble moving foward from one page to the next. But, when I try to create a button to go back to the previous page and still hold the info, the button takes me to the next page.

So, if I'm on page 2 of my form, I have two buttons, one button for << Page 1 and another button for Page 3 >>. When you click the Page 3 button it works. When you click the Page 1 button it takes me to Page 3 not Page 1.

I don't know how to properly code this.

Can someone help me out?

Weedpacket

On page 2:

<input type="submit" name="page" value="&lt;&lt; Page 1" />
<input type="submit" name="page" value="Page 3 &gt;&gt;" />
</form>

Just an idle thought. You know which page they want because it's in the value of $POST['page'], and you know if they travelled forward or back to get there because it's in the value of $POST['page']. Probably better to have a hidden field for that latter part, though.

focus310

Hello:

I've tried a number of ways to get these buttons to work. I highlighted the button that is giving me trouble in the code below. When clicking Page 1, it wants to go to Page 3 not Page 1. Also, when I run the script; I receive the following:

Notice: Undefined index: page in C:\Inetpub\fullfocus\AngelHouse\app_admission_pg2.php on line 7

Notice: Undefined index: page in C:\Inetpub\fullfocus\AngelHouse\app_admission_pg2.php on line 10

These messages are referring to the lines of code in my PHP script which I have below.

When you take the mouse and hover over each button, both buttons show the following URL: app_admission_pg3.php. The page 1 button when hovered should show app_admission.php. The page 3 button when hovered should show app_admission_pg3.php.

I included my code here, maybe someone can see something that I'm missing.

<form action="app_admission_pg3.php" method="post">

//form fields - too many to include

[COLOR="Red"]<input type="submit" name="page" value="<< Page 1" />[/COLOR]
<input type="submit" name="page" value="Page 3 >>" />

</form>

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This is the PHP code I'm using to tell which button to go where. At least that's what I was hoping for it to do....🙂

if ($_POST['page'] == "<< Page 1") {
    $gotopage = "Location:app_admission.php";
}
else if ($_POST['page'] == "Page 3 >>") {
    $gotopage = "Location:app_admission_pg3.php";
}

header('$gotopage');

Thanks for the help.