Re-Executeing php page untill all vars are posted

Leoa

Hi Everyone,

On my site, I have 2 color pickers that send the value of the color chosen to be saved on a server.

The user can click on one color picker at a time.

I've been searching Google and this forum for an alternative solution to the one I figured out.

My solution:
I have 2 pages. One page holds the color pickers and is
using jQuery and Ajax to send the variable to a php processing page.
In the php processing page the header function refreshes the php page until all variables are saved in the session array.
Once all the variables are in the session array the code to update the server is executed.

Is there a different solution based on when all the variables are collected then the page executes so I can avoid header refreshing ever time the user makes a selection of color?

Leoa

Yah it works!

<?php

session_start();
session_register('color');
session_register('itemType');

if (!isset($POST['color'])&& isset($POST['itemType']) ){

$_SESSION['itemType'] = $_POST['itemType'];
$return['msg'].= "  color is not set";

header( "refresh:5;url=sstestphp.php" );

}

if (isset($POST['color'])&& !isset($POST['itemType']) && $POST['itemType']=="" && empty($POST['itemType'])){

$_SESSION['color'] = $_POST['color'];

$return['msg'].= "  item is not set";

header( "refresh:5;url=sstestphp.php" );

}
if( isset($SESSION['color']) && isset($SESSION['itemType']) ){

$return['msg'].= " <br> "."value of color is ".$_SESSION['color']."value of type is ".$_SESSION['itemType'];

}
if( !isset($SESSION['color']) && !isset($SESSION['itemType']) ){

$return['error'] = true;
$return['msg'] .= 'sessions are empty.';

}
else {
$var =13;
$return['error'] = false;
$return['msg'].= 'You\'ve entered: ' . $POST['itemType'] ." and ".$POST['color']. '.';
$return['msg'].= "<br> ".$var;
}

echo json_encode($return);
/*

if (!isset($POST['color'])&& empty($POST['color']) && $POST['color']=="" &&
!isset($POST['itemType']) && empty($POST['color']) && $POST['color']=="" ){

}

if (empty($POST['itemType']) && empty($POST['color'])) {
$return['error'] = true;
$return['msg'] = 'You did not enter you email.';
}
else {
$var =13;
$return['error'] = false;
$return['msg'].= 'You\'ve entered: ' . $POST['itemType'] ." and ".$POST['color']. '.';
$return['msg'].= " ".$var;
}

echo json_encode($return);

*/

dagon

session_register

"This function has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 5.3.0 and REMOVED as of PHP 5.4.0."