Passing form value with Session

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riteshe 0 Newbie Poster

13 Years Ago

Hi, I'm new here.
i have a problem with forms, i have forms divided in sections, 3 forms in total.
1st for general information, 2nd for company information and the 3rd one for finance information.
i want to save all information in database only when 3rd form is filled, i manage to pass the information from one form to another using php $_SESSION. but my problem is when the user is working on 2nd form and click on back button to go the first form, the 1st form is empty. i want that all form have information, and only clean the form info when user click on submit button.
how can solve this problem. plz help me.

Thank you.

php

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Latest Post 13 Years Ago Latest Post by urtrivedi

diafol

13 Years Ago

Perhaps you'd do better with a little javascript to show and hide the different forms, so all data is still on the page, just that you don't see it. All data sent on last submit.

OR

//form1 send:
$_SESSION['formarray'] = $_POST;
//form2 send:
$_SESSION['formarray'] = array_merge($_SESSION['formarray'], $_POST);
//form3 send:
$_SESSION['formarray'] = array_merge($_SESSION['formarray'], $_POST);

You can then do an array_map() on all items to clean them before inserting them to a DB.

The disadvantage of this is that it's a firehose (one-way wizard). You have to start again - you can't go back. That';s why the js version's so handy.

Although, you could always do:

//form1 send:
$_SESSION['formarray']['first'] = $_POST;
//form2 send:
$_SESSION['formarray']['second'] = $_POST;
//form3 send:
$_SESSION['formarray']['third'] = $_POST;

Edited 13 Years Ago by diafol because: n/a

urtrivedi 276 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso

13 Years Ago

better you post your code for at least form 1, that you have written

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riteshe 0 Newbie Poster · Answer 1 · 2011-08-02T13:19:18+00:00

hi ardav, thanks for you reply.
im little bit confused of what u said, can u explain me with a simple example. like 3 forms.
1st with name and email
2st with company name and address
3rd with company account number.
plzz

riteshe 0 Newbie Poster · Answer 2 · 2011-08-02T15:11:40+00:00

<?php require_once('Connections/db.php'); ?>
<?php
 
if (!function_exists("GetSQLValueString")) {
function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "") 
{
  if (PHP_VERSION < 6) {
    $theValue = get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($theValue) : $theValue;
  }

  $theValue = function_exists("mysql_real_escape_string") ? mysql_real_escape_string($theValue) : mysql_escape_string($theValue);

  switch ($theType) {
    case "text":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;    
    case "long":
    case "int":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "double":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? doubleval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "date":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;
    case "defined":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue : $theNotDefinedValue;
      break;
  }
  return $theValue;
}
}

mysql_select_db($database_db, $db);
$query_get_especialidade = "SELECT especialidade_id, especialidade_nome FROM especialidade";
$get_especialidade = mysql_query($query_get_especialidade, $db) or die(mysql_error());
$row_get_especialidade = mysql_fetch_assoc($get_especialidade);
$totalRows_get_especialidade = mysql_num_rows($get_especialidade);

mysql_select_db($database_db, $db);
$query_get_tipo_contrato = "SELECT * FROM tipo_contrato";
$get_tipo_contrato = mysql_query($query_get_tipo_contrato, $db) or die(mysql_error());
$row_get_tipo_contrato = mysql_fetch_assoc($get_tipo_contrato);
$totalRows_get_tipo_contrato = mysql_num_rows($get_tipo_contrato);

mysql_select_db($database_db, $db);
$query_get_categoria = "SELECT * FROM categoria";
$get_categoria = mysql_query($query_get_categoria, $db) or die(mysql_error());


$query_get_area = "SELECT * FROM area";
$get_area = mysql_query($query_get_area, $db) or die(mysql_error());
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>WEB RAP</title>
<link href="estilo.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

</head>
<div align="center">
<img src="imagens/vale.jpg" width="1024" height="140" align="middle"/>
</div>
<body>

<table align="center">
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>
<ul>  
  <li><a class="menu" href="principal3.php">Processo</a></li>
</ul>
</td>

<td>  
<ul>
  <li><a class="menu" href="form2.php">Proponentes</a></li>
</ul>
</td>

<td>   
<ul>
  <li><a class="menu" href="form3.php">Comerciais</a></li>
</ul>
</td>  

<td>  
<ul>
  <li><a class="menu" href="form4.php">Datas/Prazos</a></li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<form name= "form1"  method = "post" action="form2.php">
<table align="center">

<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr>
  <td class="texto"> Área* : </td>
  <td><select name="area_id"> 
     <!-- <option>Selecione uma opção</option> -->
      <option><?php if(isset($area_id)){print stripslashes($area_id);}else{print "Selecione uma opção";} ?>
      </option> 
  <?php
      while($registo=mysql_fetch_array($get_area))
	   {
	      echo ("<option value=\"$registo[area_id]\" " . ($area_id == $registo["area_id"] ? " selected" : "") . ">$registo[area_nome]</option>");   
	   }
  ?>
      </select> 
  </td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td class="texto"> Categoria* :</td>
  <td><select name="categoria_id">
      <option>Selecione uma opção</option>
  <?php
      while($registo=mysql_fetch_array($get_categoria))
	   {
	      echo ("<option value=\"$registo[categoria_id]\" " . ($categoria_id == $registo["categoria_id"] ? " selected" : "") . ">$registo[categoria_nome]</option>");   
	   }
  ?>
      </select>  
  </td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td class="texto"> Especialidade* : </td>
  <td><select name="especialidade_id">
      <option>Selecione uma opção</option>
  <?php
      while($registo=mysql_fetch_array($get_especialidade))
	   {
	      echo ("<option value=\"$registo[especialidade_id]\" " . ($especialidade_id == $registo["especialidade_id"] ? " selected" : "") . ">$registo[especialidade_nome]</option>");   
	   }
  ?>
      </select>
  </td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td class="texto"> RC : </td>
  <td> <input type = "text" name="rc" id = "rc"  size = "30" /> </td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td class="texto"> OC : </td>
  <td> <input type = "text" name="oc"  id = "oc"  size = "30" /> </td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td class="texto"> Objeto* : </td>
  <td><textarea name="objeto" id = "objeto" rows = "4" cols = "40" ></textarea></td>
</tr>
                
<tr>
  <td class="texto"> Tipo de Contratação* : </td>
  <td><select name="tipo_contrato_id">
      <option>Selecione uma opção</option>
      <?php
         while($registo=mysql_fetch_array($get_tipo_contrato))
	      {
	         echo ("<option value=\"$registo[tipo_contrato_id]\" " . ($tipo_contrato_id == $registo["tipo_contrato_id"] ? " selected" : "") . ">$registo[tipo_contrato_nome]</option>");   
	      }
      ?>
      </select></td>
</tr>
                 
<tr>
  <td class="texto"> Data Necessidade Cliente : </td>
  <td> <input type = "text" name="data_nc" id = "data_nc"  size = "30" /> 
  </td>
</tr> 

				
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr align="center">
<td colspan="2">
<input type="submit" value="Continuar" class="texto">  
						<!-- <input type ="button" name="Submit" value ="Continuar" class="texto"/> -->
<input type = "reset" name="Reset" value="Apagar" class="texto"/>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

</body>
</html>
<?php
mysql_free_result($get_especialidade);

mysql_free_result($get_tipo_contrato);

mysql_free_result($get_categoria);

mysql_free_result($get_area);
?>

urtrivedi 276 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso · Answer 3 · 2011-08-02T15:26:18+00:00

I will give one example to set value using session

<input type = "text" name="data_nc" id = "data_nc"  size = "30" value='<?php  echo $_SESSION['last_data']['first_form']['data_nc']?>'/>

in your form2.php you must write

$_SESSION['last_data']['first_form']=$_POST;

also start all pages with session_start()