[RESOLVED] converting $_POST to $_SESSION

[spiritssight]

Hi,

ok I am trying to figure out how to do this the best way,

I have a form that has more then one page to it, I read some where that you could take the information from the form and set it as a session so you would not have to hardcode all the hidden fields which sounds good to me I am just not sure how I could take all the $POST[] except $POST['submit'] and set them as $SESSIONS[] also is it possible to have say $POST['...'] then when coverting to $SESSION have it show like $SESSIONS['POST']['colname'] which would call the value, so when I take the var in $SESSION it would only grab the form stuff and not any other sessions that I may have set say like $SESSION['user_id'] ??

Also now when I run the query how can I have it dynimily create it base on whats in the array for example if its a INSERT?

Thanks for your insight on doing this code!

Sincerely,
Christopher

[NogDog]

<?php
session_start(); // must be in each file before $_SESSION is referenced
$_SESSION['POST'] = $_POST;

If there may already be post data in the session array that you do not want to overwrite, then instead do

<?php
session_start();
foreach($_POST as $key => $value)
{
   $_SESSION['POST'][$key] = $value;
}

[spiritssight]

Thanks very much NogDog that is what I was looking for!

could you do me one thing, could you explain what the => does?

also how does $key get its value from $_POST?

Sincerely,
Christopher

[NogDog]

The first 3 paragraphs of the [man]foreach/man page explains it as clearly as I can, I think.

[spiritssight]

Ok, I believe I understand that now :-)