Exactly, the whole fed up thing is what I'm worried about... can always get it to email them if they got bored and went away if it's stored in a table


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yep, that's a definite issue if an individual form is long enough.  i.e. it
takes longer to fill out that form and submit it than your session timeout
is set at.

although if you're splitting it across many pages, hopefully it wouldn't
take that long to fill out any one page.  unless they get fed up with it
and go for their lunch break or something




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Thanks Duncan, that's given me some ideas ;) Going to have to be the 2nd
of the three I think- it's a very long questionnaire so I guess using
session structs may lose some users after timeout

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1. pass the information between pages with hidden form fields. this


method


is probably fine, although if your form has quite a few pages and fields,
you'll end up with lots of hidden fields.  if you also go back to the
previous page if there's an error in the form (e.g. they've left a field
blank), you'll have to pass all this information back too.

2. store the form information in a table. either this could be a
temporary store, which then gets deleted after form completion or
periodically, or it could be the actual table the form results are meant


to


end up in.  if your form is created dynamically, you'll need to have a
table flexible enough to allow for various types of answers
(text/numeric/longtext/boolean etc).  probably the most potentially
difficult way of doing it IMHO.

3. store the information in a structure in the session.  probably the
simplest way to do it.  then at the end of the form, just transfer this
structure to an email/database/whatever.










Damian Watson





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Multiple page questionnaires


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Hi,

Anyone got good pointers/ tips/ resources for creating multiple page
forms i.e. a registration process with several stages... ?? What to look
out for, pitfalls etc etc

d

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