Passing FORM user input to another page using SESSION vars

dcjones

Hi All.

I have a form which accepts user input. When the form is posted I want to collect the users input from the form fields and pass that data in a SESSION var to the next page.

<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="signup.php?price_group=13">
<table width="90%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><div align="center"><img src="in_sure_and_go_new_account.gif" width="254" height="46" /></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="gee">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="even">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="even">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43%" class="gee">Clients Name : First </td>
<td width="3%" class="even">&nbsp;</td>
<td width="54%" class="even"><input class="bodytext" name="name_f" type="text" id="name_f" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="gee">Clients  Surname : </td>
<td class="even">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="even"><input class="bodytext" name="name_l" type="text" id="name_l" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="even">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="even"><input name="email" type="text" class="bodytext" id="email" size="35" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="gee">Mobile telephone No: </td>
<td class="even">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="even"><input class="bodytext" name="mobile" type="text" id="mobile" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="gee">Policy No: </td>
<td class="even">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="even"><input class="bodytext" name="login" type="text" id="login" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="gee">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="even">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="even"><input type="image" name="Submit" value="<img src="_sure_and_go_renewal.gif" "/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

My question is how do I get the data from the user input to the SESSION var

Scriptmaker

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

<?php
session_start();
//check if form was submitted

if (!isset($_POST['Submit'])) {

//create variables from form data
  $name_f = $_POST['name_f'];
  //add more as needed

//create sessions variables using variables created above
    $_SESSION['name_f'] = $name_f;
   //add more as needed
}
?>

That's the basic structure of it. If you're looking to take all of the form data and put it into the sessions array, then you can just loop through the post array and assign the sessions variables that way.

dcjones

Hi ScriptMaker

Thanks for your reply.

I fully understand your code, but can this be done on the same page(script).

i.e

Have the form stuff and the passing the input from the form field to the $var
and the pass the $var to the SESSION var.

Many thanks

Scriptmaker

If you change your form's action to <?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?> and use the method of checking if the form has been submitted that I showed you above, that shouldn't be a problem.