Cannot get form variable to carry with sessions...

kane250

Hi everyone.

I'm having a problem that seems simple but I'm not getting anywhere with it. I have one page that has a form with just an email address field, and after you submit that form, a popup comes up with more fields to fill in. One of those fields is the email address field that I want to be automatically filled with what was typed on the first page, so the user doesn't have to retype this.

I cannot get anything to work, and it seems so simple. Can someone please suggest something to me? I have posted my code with all the extra messy html taken out.

Thanks!

Page 1 (castcrew.php)

<?php session_start();
session_register ("emailaddy");
$HTTP_SESSION_VARS ["emailaddy"] = $emailaddy;
?>

<div id="emailform">
<form method="post" action="castcrew.php"/>
<input type='text' value="" name="email" />

<input type="submit" value="" class="button" onclick="wopen('mainsub.php', 'popup', 400, 375); return true;" onmouseover="this.className='button-over';" onmouseout="this.className='button';" />
</div>

Page 2 (mainsub.php)

<?php session_start();?>
<form method="post" action="mainsub.php" >
<p>	
First name: <input type='text' value="" name="firstname" /><br /><br />
Last name: <input type='text' value="" name="lastname" /><br /><br />
E-Mail Address: <input type='text' value="<?PHP echo $emailaddy; ?>" name = "email" /><br /></p>
<br />
<input type='submit' value="Submit!" name="submit" /><br />
</form>

illzz

Although you are registering it in the session, it doesn't look like $emailaddy is being defined anywhere.

Try this.... On Page 2 (mainsub.php) replace

<?PHP echo $emailaddy; ?>

with

<?PHP echo $_FORM['email']; ?>

This method is not using a SESSION at all, just using the POST data that's sent from the form.

kane250

Thanks, but this doesn't work either. I would love to not use sessions, but I thought to go from one page to another, you have to...?

illzz

I didn't see this initially, but you will have to adjust you ACTION pages in your FORMs. You can find more information here, but basically, you want to put in the page you want to go to when the form is submitted. It looks like you just have the current page in there.

Also, in order to have it open in a new window, you can use TARGET instead of the javascript.

Try this for the first page:

<div id="emailform">
    <form method="post" action="mainsub.php" target="_blank">
        <input type="text" value="" name="email" />
        <input type="submit" value="Submit" class="button" />
    </form>
</div>

illzz

Also, as far as needing SESSIONS, if the data that you need is going to be passed through a FORM, then you don't need to use a SESSION for that.

If you want PHP to store some end user generated data, it would need to be sent through an HTTP request (POST or GET) in the next page, since the PHP is being parsed when the page loads.

kane250

illzz;10885334 wrote:
I didn't see this initially, but you will have to adjust you ACTION pages in your FORMs. You can find more information here, but basically, you want to put in the page you want to go to when the form is submitted. It looks like you just have the current page in there.

Also, in order to have it open in a new window, you can use TARGET instead of the javascript.

Try this for the first page:
<div id="emailform">
    <form method="post" action="mainsub.php" target="_blank">
        <input type="text" value="" name="email" />
        <input type="submit" value="Submit" class="button" />
    </form>
</div>

Well I tried this and it didnt work, but I also don't understand what exactly I changed? I want a popup because the window that pops up is a small size in the corner. I don't want an entire new page to open and I'm happy with the popup settings anyhow....and as for the submiiting: I have the first page submitting to the second page and the second page submits to itself. I'll send you a link to the page...maybe that will make things add up better.

kane250

bump...anyone else have an idea?

kane250

ok actually I fixed the problem with it not carrying over...I was setting it incorrectly, and thats okay, however the variable doesn't show up until reload the page. Anyone know how I can make it show up immediately?