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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