Mike Ifabumuyi wrote:
there are a total of 100 fields.
The user might not necessarily need to fill out all ten rows, they might only fill in 2 rows, but the way the post method works it will still send the blank fields.
Frankly the idea of a 100 field form on a page scares the hell out of me.
Dunno, I try to treat my users like humans rather than mindless drones who are somehow captive and MUST fill out outragiously long forms or wade through other such online atrocities such as relentless porno pop-ups and spam in email inboxes worldwide.
But, I could have sworn the max post-size for the vanilla install of PHP is 8megs.
Of course max-post size and the post actually happening are two different things.
But yes, I would break that form up.
That's the professional way to do it.
100 fields is not only an eye-sore but it's degrading to the user as a human and shows that you need to read up on user experience and process flow. There is absolutely no reason to have that large a form, I'm sure there are atleast 9-10 common parts that would be better off as their own form.
If you need to collect data as youi go, then use sessions.
I strongly recommend you read up on programming a while longer before you start laying down the law as to how something needs to be.
