save form submissions and dynamic pages

mizzd

Hello All!

I'm fairly new to PHP so I'd appreciate any help I can get. I've created a PHP form and would like to implement the following features (if they're possible):

Allow the user completing the form to save their responses and be able to retrieve them later and finish completing the form. I'm guessing this would require the use of cookies.

and

For all of the completed submissions, create a dynamic webpage that includes links to view each individual submission as a webpage itself. I'm guessing this one would involve saving the responses in a file (or separate files), dynamically create a page that searches the directory for this(these) file(s) and generates the page with the links accordingly.

Am I on the right track???

Oh, I will not be able to use a database.

Any ideas???? Especially with the code that would be required.

Thanks in advance!!!!!!

nashirak

Instead of Cookies you could use Session variables (which use cookie but are easier to implement)
ex.

1st page

session_start();
session_register("SESSION");

// Now we can just call session and use it like an array

$SESSION[0] = $field1;
$SESSION[1] = $field2;

etc....

then you to retrieve them just call back the sessions like

session_start();
session_register("SESSION"):

echo $SESSION[0];

etc...

Now storing stuff in files. Stinks that you cant use database I would just write the session variables back into the file seperated with some delimeter (like : ) I would also make it searchable by some user name or user ID.

so file would look like

userid1:blah:blah2:blah3:blah4
userid2:blah:blah2:blah3:blah4

etc....

write:

session_start();
session_register("SESSION");
$fp = fopen("database.dat","w+");

for($i = 0; $i < sizeof($SESSION);$i++) {

if(i != 0)
$output = $output + ":" + $SESSION[$i];
else
$output = $USERID + ":" + $SESSION[$i];

}// end for

fputs($fp,$output);

read:

// Assume you have userid for later

$file = file("database.dat");
$break = 0;

for($i = 0; $i < sizeof($file) && !$break; $i++) {

$line = $file[$i];

$array = explode(":",$line);

if ($array[0] == $USERID) {

  $break = 1; // We found the record and can stop looping

}

Once we have all this info we can just read them back into some sessions or can just output them in fields.

Hope this Helps!

(Code warning: I am not perfect)