Help pre populating forms

cgaledrige

I have tried doing this for hours and it is not working. Here is the cut and paste of what I have Done.

Page Following the first form.

    <?php session_start();
    // store session data
    $_SESSION['Contact0FirstName'] = $_POST['Contact0FirstName'];
    $_SESSION['Contact0FirstName'] = $_POST['Contact0FirstName'];
    $_SESSION['Contact0Company'] = $_POST['Contact0Company'];
    $_SESSION['Contact0Email'] = $_POST['Contact0Email'];
    $_SESSION['Contact0Phone1'] = $_POST['Contact0Phone1'];
    ?>

This is the url when I hit the submit button:
http://www.gnsaspecialoffer.com/Home.html?infusion_name=GNSA+Free+Report&infusion_type=CustomFormWeb&infusion_xid=dd14bac19120215d768f050261d922cb&Contact0StreetAddress2=&Contact0StreetAddress1=851+humphrey+st&Contact0PostalCode=97501&Contact0State=or&Contact0Company=higher+vision+marketing&Contact0Email=cgaledrige%40aureliusholdings.com&Contact0LastName=galedrige&Contact0Phone1=5416217046&Submit=Submit&Contact0FirstName=cheyenne&Contact0City=medford&contactId=6

Here is what I have put on the quote page on page 4 of site:

    <?php session_start();
    //retrieve session data
    $firstname = $_SESSION['Contact0FirstName'];
    $lastname = $_SESSION['Contact0LastName'];
    $company = $_SESSION['Contact0Company'];
    $email = $_SESSION['Contact0Email'];
    $Phone = $_SESSION['Contact0Phone1'];
    ?>

And here is what is in the form fields:
<input name="First_Name" type="text" id="First_Name" value="<?php echo $firstname;?>"/>

When I go to the page <?php echo $firstname;?>"/> is showing in the field.

Help Please, I don't know what to do.

bradgrafelman

Welcome to PHPBuilder!
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The page where you've inserted the code that uses the session data appears to be in a file with a .html suffix, if your URL is to be trusted. Normally, webservers are only configured to parse files with a .php (or .phps, .php[3-5], etc.) file extension for PHP code - not .html files. Try renaming the page to have a .php file extension.

cgaledrige

I have managed by myself to get it to populate, but if only if I go immediately to that page. If I scroll through other pages in the site it won't populate. my site is www.gnsaspecialoffer.com/index.php please help me. The site is not close to finished yet, so don't mind the ugliness.

bradgrafelman

So wait, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't? Sounds like it's a session persistence problem now.

Try outputting [man]session_id/man somewhere (at the top, middle, wherever) on every page. Once you start a session, that identifier should not change. If it does, it means your session was regenerated and your old data is no longer associated with the current session. This can happen if you type in "mysite.com" but have links that point to "www.mysite.com" since "myste.com" doesn't share the same subdomain as "www.mysite.com".

Could this perhaps be your problem? If so, a common solution is to set the session cookie parameters such that the "host" parameter of the cookie is set to ".mysite.com" (with a leading period), which sets the cookie for all subdomains on your website (as opposed to the default configuration of only setting the cookie for the subdomain of the current request).

EDIT: I just tested submitting the form, clicking a few links before finally going to the quote page, and the values I submitted in the form were being correctly populated in the quote form.

As such, I'm really wondering if it wasn't a subdomain issue as I mentioned above.

cgaledrige

ok, well i have no idea what i am doing. everytime i do it is different. if i have a fresh browser it works, if i don't it doesn't.

I have never written php before and been searching all over the internet for bits and pieces and trying to put them into what i need. can you give me code that will do what you are talking about?