Carrying $_POST with you to another page?

[Ryan_Sanders]

I didn't know how to title this, so I did the best I could in relation to my question.

Ok.

I have a form.

I submit the data into the form, and click SUBMIT/PREVIEW.

Then the next page shows everything I entered into the form - in a nice html format; no forms.

I want to give them the ability to either:
A. Go back and change
or
B. Submit the data into the database

My issue here.. Would it be best to just go ahead and create a form, and use all HIDDEN fields. And use all the $_POST results into the hidden fields and then have a <input type='submit'> to carry the variables to the next page to submit the data?

Or is there an easier way to carry all the results to the next page?

Thanks to all who could help.

[dagon]

most people would uses sessions for this.

[Krik]

Then the next page shows everything I entered into the form - in a nice html format; no forms.

Actually you could use a form to display it.

Now your thinking that will look odd. But you are forgetting that you could use CSS to make those input fields borders disappear and then set each one to "readonly". Thereby the data is still in a form just the user can not tell.

Then using javascript you could reset in the borders and change them form readonly when they click the go back/change button.

In fact if it were me the preview button would just change the style of the fields instead of sending the data to a different page.

With just a bit of javascript the user could preview and go back as many times as they like without ever leaving the page. And then when they are done they can submit and then that could take them to a new page (or not if you want to use AJAX).

[Ryan_Sanders]

Thanks! I will definitely loook into the javascript.. thats something I have never really messed with.