Re: passing variables from forms to the same page repetatively

What about registering some session variables? Sessions use cookies and/or URLs to propagate info across multiple pages. Not really secure, though, but they are easy to use. Mick On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Tim Olsen wrote: > 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 ?>"> > > -- > David Robley Techno-JoaT, Web Maintainer, Mail List Admin, etc > CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES Flinders University, SOUTH AUSTRALIA > > I always lie. In fact, I'm lying to you right now! > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- Michael Hall mulga.com.au admin@mulga.com.au ph/fax (+61 8) 8953 1442 ABN 94 885 174 814