[davestar057]

Hi Guys,

Okay, I need your fine help.

Okay, so I can do the whole submit a form and send it to email etc...

the problem I have, that I cannot figure out is how to do a "multi step" form??

For example

STEP 1 (YOUR DETAILS)
name
email
age
location


STEP TWO (SETUP ACCOUN DETAILS)

username
password
reminder

STEP THREE (PETS DETAILS

cats name
cats age

etc....

STEP FOUR - DONE - SENDS EMAIL


So like I said I can do all the mechanics of a php form to email address, thats simple...just wondering how I would do the multi part/step form that then sends the info to an email address.

Hope that makes sense.

You guys rock, please help me out

THANK YOU
David

[therocket954]

You have a couple options... if it's nothing too large scale, you could do hidden form elements.

on your 2nd page, you could have it like so:

HTML Code:

<form action="3rd_page.php" method="post" name="form" id="form">
<input type="text" name="username" id="username" size="32" />
<input type="password" name="passwd" id="passwd" size="32" />
<input type="text" name="reminder" id="reminder" size="32" />

<!-- begin data carryover from 1st form page -->
<input type="hidden" value="<?php echo $_POST['name']; ?>" />
<input type="hidden" value="<?php echo $_POST['email']; ?>" />
<input type="hidden" value="<?php echo $_POST['age']; ?>" />
<input type="hidden" value="<?php echo $_POST['location']; ?>" />

<input type="submit" value="submit" />

Obviously the HTML styling is missing from the above, but you get the point When the user submits this page, the new information is submitted as well as the hidden fields containing the previous page info.

If you have a lot more information to collect or a lot of pages, you might be better off using sessions.

Here's a good tutorial on those:
http://www.tizag.com/phpT/phpsessions.php

[daveganley]

In the example from therocket954 I think you need to make sure you name the hidden input fields.

<input type="hidden" name="name" value="<?php echo $_POST['name']; ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="email" value="<?php echo $_POST['email']; ?>" />
etc, etc

The other option is to store the data in a session and keep adding to it each step

Dave

[therocket954]

Oops... good catch dave... Sorry guys

[job0107]

Originally Posted by davestar057

Hi Guys,

Okay, I need your fine help.

Okay, so I can do the whole submit a form and send it to email etc...

the problem I have, that I cannot figure out is how to do a "multi step" form??

For example

STEP 1 (YOUR DETAILS)
name
email
age
location


STEP TWO (SETUP ACCOUN DETAILS)

username
password
reminder

STEP THREE (PETS DETAILS

cats name
cats age

etc....

STEP FOUR - DONE - SENDS EMAIL


So like I said I can do all the mechanics of a php form to email address, thats simple...just wondering how I would do the multi part/step form that then sends the info to an email address.

Hope that makes sense.

You guys rock, please help me out

THANK YOU
David

Well it depends on whether you want to use Javascript and PHP or just PHP.

If you use Javascript then you can isolate the different parts of your form in div's inside the form.
And just make the appropriate div visible when needed.

If you want to use just PHP then you could do as therocket954 suggested.
Or you can use sessions to store the values of your form.

Now there is also a way to use Javascript and PHP sessions together by using AJAX.

You must make the decision. And if you need help then come back here.