Re: passing variables from forms to the same page repetatively

Yeah, I had thought about using hidden inputs, but hidden inputs are not really hidden. They still exist on the HTML page, and although not visible in the browser, are visible in the code. This may not be cool if you have sensitive information that is passed, also if you have a lot of variables to pass, thats just a lot of hidden inputs to pass. Is there no other way to accomplish this? No built in function? I guess it makes sense that there is not, b/c the form submits the form and only the form variables. Thanks. -Tim ----Original Message Follows---- From: David Robley <huntsman@www.nisu.flinders.edu.au> Reply-To: huntsman@www.nisu.flinders.edu.au To: "Tim Olsen" <mrtimo@hotmail.com>, php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] passing variables from forms to the same page repetatively Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:13:41 +0930 On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 15:41, Tim Olsen wrote:

People, I have 4 forms in four seperate html pages included directly (no links to includes) in the same .php file, i have it so all the form actions is php.self, so when each form is submitted it goes on to display the next form in line, using if and else statements, of course. I want to be able to use variables created by the first form in the html part of the last form. What is the best way to do this? So far, I can only use variables on the next page (form) that is written out. After that those variables have no value. Is there some way to submit all variables present and assigned with the submission of each form? If I make the forms a seperate include file, instead of having them in-line, how does this change the ways variables are passed or submitted by each form? Thanks, - Tim _________________________________________________________________

If I understand what you are saying: those variables don't exist until you SUBMIT the form. You can demonstrate this by looping through and displaying your POST or GET vars at the beginning of the form and see what happens when you first open the page, and when it calls itself. And re-reading, I think what you may want is hidden fields. You want part one to call part 2, and retain values from part 1, etc? Echo the values into hidden fields in each step of the process. <INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=whatever VALUE="<?php echo $whatever ?>"> --

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