I have a contact information form where users come and fill their info. There are different fields on form like name, email, phone no. ect. i don't want to let user to enter that detail again and again. i want to set cookies so when he/she will open that form user's last entered info should be in front of him. please help ASAP.
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venkat0904 1 Junior Poster
I have a contact information form where users come and fill their info. There are different fields on form like name, email, phone no. ect. i don't want to let user to enter that detail again and again. i want to set cookies so when he/she will open that form user's last entered info should be in front of him. please help ASAP.
Why dont u save the details in database and fetch them when required according to the user currently logged in...
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thank you so much for your advice but its client's requirement to set cookies, no fetch from database. please help me..... :(
venkat0904 1 Junior Poster
thank you so much for your advice but its client's requirement to set cookies, no fetch from database. please help me..... :(
Its a simple task to do...
when the user submits the form for first time, simply set the values in cookie..
setcookie("name", $name);
setcookie("email",$email);and so on..
when u need to retrieve the values in cookie just do..
$name = $_COOKIE['name'];and feed this value to ur form so user dont need to enter it repeatedly...
note: Using cookies for critical issues can be risky as user can have cookies disabled in browser but as for ur requirement it should do just fine..
Cheers!!
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i have done the same job. see my code
<?php
$expire=time()+60*60*24*30;
$name=$_REQUEST['name'];
setcookie("username",$name, $expire);
?>
<html>
<?php
echo "cookie value".$_COOKIE["username"];
print_r($_COOKIE);
?>
<input name="name" value="<?=$_COOKIE["username"]?>" />
</body>
</html>but issue is i am storing the value entered in name field as a cookie. but every time when i came and load form its blank as the $_REQUEST is blank. how can i tell to cookie, keep storing the last entered value of name field
venkat0904 1 Junior Poster
i have done the same job. see my code
<?php $expire=time()+60*60*24*30; $name=$_REQUEST['name']; setcookie("username",$name, $expire); ?> <html> <?php echo "cookie value".$_COOKIE["username"]; print_r($_COOKIE); ?> <input name="name" value="<?=$_COOKIE["username"]?>" /> </body> </html>but issue is i am storing the value entered in name field as a cookie. but every time when i came and load form its blank as the $_REQUEST is blank. how can i tell to cookie, keep storing the last entered value of name field
Just do a check if the $_REQUEST is empty, dont set the value in cookie.. this way only the first time cookie will be blank and as soon as the user enters a value for the first time, it will get stored in the cookie...
if(!(empty($_REQUEST['username']))){
$name=$_REQUEST['name'];
setcookie("username",$name, $expire);
}Cheers!!
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