Re: Multi-Step Form

John Zimmerman [gmail]
Thu, 18 May 2006 20:04:16 -0700

Thanks for the articles. They look like they might be helpful. I will read through them tonight.

I inherited a web application development project and am trying to move away from the filearts framework. I have hacked on it as much as I can but it just isn't very good at a lot of things.

Currently I am using the old framework, PEAR's QuickForm, and a messy controller that I wrote to keep the two in line. In general I am doing the following

display step 1
validate posted data
if validate fails redisplay step 1
if validate passes go to step 2

The number of steps are pre-defined. Moving forward to the next step is being done through the php header('Location: url'); function.

This method is getting very messy and since I am migrating to cake I am very interested in avoiding the same kind of shenanigans.

On 5/18/06, Langdon Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

If anyone is interested in this issue have a look at this article:

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/03/29/webwizard2.htm

It's a discussion of a Struts based MVC Wizard, but the design
principles should be re-usable with a bit of thought.  Of particular
interest to me is the "redirect after post" idea, helping to prevent the
user clicking the browser back button, and resubmitting stale data.  See
this article for more info:

http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=RedirectAfterPost

Regards,
Langdon

John Zimmerman [gmail] wrote:
> Does anyone have an easy way to construct a multi-step form?  This would
> be kind of a "wizard" format.

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