You're going to have two options. 1) Use session variables. On the action for each page loop over FORM.fieldnames and append those fields and values to your session.st5stepProcess - Sessions are the easiest, but they and locking are avoidable if you want to try the next method.
2) Use WDDX. The trick with using WDDX in this fashion is that you're going to end up with WDDX inside other WDDX. The first pages info will be inside a field of the second pages WDDX fields, the second inside the third and so on. So you'll need to convert the WDDX using the xmlformat() function. If you try to deserialize a WDDX packet with another inside you'll get an error. The progression is like this First page - Your normal form In the second page - <cfwddx action="CFML2WDDX" input="#FORM#" output="wstPage1"> <form> <input type="hidden" name="wstPage1" value="#wstPage1#"> In the third page - the part where you have to start paying attention <cfset FORM.wstPage1 = xmlformat(FORM.wstPage1)> <!--- now all the < are < etc... ---> <cfwddx action="CFML2WDDX" input="#FORM#" output="wstPage2"> <form> <input type="hidden" name="wstPage2" value="#wstPage2#"> Then when you want to pull it all out <cfwddx action="WDDX2CFML" input="#FORM.wstPage2#" output="variables.wstPage2"> <cfwddx action="WDDX2CFML" input="#variables.wstPage2.wstPage1#" output="variables.wstPage1"> This will then give you a couple of different structs to play with that then contain all your data. I haven't pushed it past three pages, but I'm pretty sure if you keep up the progression of WDDX and xmlformat it will keep working. I ended up using CFDUMP quite a bit to make sure things were getting passed properly. It'll help a great deal. HTH, t ********************************************************************** Tyler M. Fitch Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer ISITE Design, Inc. 615 SW Broadway Ste. 200 Portland, OR 97205 503.221.9860 ext. 111 http://isitedesign.com ********************************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 9:50 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Passing form field data Hi, I have a very long form which i have broken down into 5 pages. My question is what's the best way to store and pass form fields from each page to the last page where all field data will be sent to a database. thanks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
