Re: PHP and GET/POST

great thanks =) regards Patrick "Chris Shiflett" <shiflett@php.net> skrev i meddelandet news:20040308235448.518.qmail@web14306.mail.yahoo.com... > --- Patrik Fomin <pafo@pafo.net> wrote: > > How should you do it?, i mean i have 3 pages with some forms on two of > > em First page = some general information to fill in Second page = more > > deep informationand last page to confirm and store in the database. > > > What methods is there to do this? sessions? > > Yes, I think sessions would provide a more secure and elegant solution for > what you are doing. I also think that you'll find things easier from a > development perspective. You basically would follow this flow (you can > structure your code however): > > 1. When user submits first page of data, validate it, and if it is valid, > store it in the session. If it is not, goto 10 (funny BASIC reference, for > those who missed it). > 2. Go through the same process for the second page (except goto 20 if > there is invalid data). > 3. On the third page, display the valid data that is stored in the > session. When the user clicks the button (or whatever) on this page, no > data is actually sent, because the server already has it all. You just > store the data that you already have in the session. > > This also saves you from passing data back and forth between the user and > the server for every page. > > Hope that helps. > > Chris > > ===== > Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ > > PHP Security - O'Reilly > Coming mid-2004 > HTTP Developer's Handbook - Sams > http://httphandbook.org/ > PHP Community Site > http://phpcommunity.org/